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Homework Help: English: Books, Novels & Plays: The Chosen
Reb Saunders A Great Man
by Lisa Xiong
In the novel The Chosen, written by Chiam Potok, some characters make themselves great persons and some don’t. Depending on who they are and what they do explains it all. Reb Saunders, one of the characters in the novel, is a great man in many ways.
As a wise, learned, deeply religious sage, and also the father of a Hasidic dynasty, a deeply religious and God fearing man, Reb Saunders’s religion is one that makes him a great man. Because he truly believes in it, many people follow him; as well he makes his own home a place of study and prayer for his followers.
His beliefs in the Jewish community, make him a great man because hi shows pride in himself and others who are Jewish and he has a great influence on his followers. Also, he focuses inwards on his community and on his own sense of suffering. Therefore, when it was heard that the war was over, but then the bad news was that there were approximately one million Jew who died of the war, he is so heartbroken for all Jewish people, and also very upsetting to hear such terrible news.
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