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Title: Illness and Morality


1
Illness and Morality
  • Sam, Greg, Justina, Danyel

2
Mortality
  • the state or condition of being subject to death
    mortal character, nature, or existence.
  • mortal beings collectively humanity

3
Illness and Mortality
  • Serious, debilitating illnesses are prevalent
    throughout the novel, as characters suffer from
    trauma including heart attacks, blood disorders
    and even serious vision problems.
  • This theme serves as a reminder of the morality
    of the characters, as shown most clearly by David
    Malter, whose heart attack causes him to confront
    his own mortality and force Reuven to confront it
    as well.
  • This also relates to the importance of religion
    throughout The Chosen, for reminders of the
    characters' mortality emphasize the relationship
    between people and God.

4
Holocaust
  • Present throughout the entire novel
  • Doesnt directly affect characters
  • Characters hear the horrors being committed
    against their people
  • Affects them mentally and emotionally

5
Zionist Movement
  • After the Holocaust, even more Jews were killed
    to try to establish a Jewish state
  • Causes main characters to suffer
  • Danny and Reuvens friendship ends
  • The school becomes divided and fights begin

6
Rabbi Isaac Saunders
  • Rabbi in a Hasidic Brooklyn community.
  • Position passed down from father to son for
    generations.
  • The tzaddik, head religious leader (god like
    figure) brought over the congregation in order to
    help them escape from the horrors occurring in
    Poland, thus starting the line of Saunders being
    the head religious leaders.
  • Prayer is extremely important in their beliefs of
    becoming worthy.

7
Mortality
  • Took place during WWII, before the start of the
    holocaust.
  • The Jews that lived in Poland were ill treated
    and wanted an escape.
  • They had to face their own mortality.
  • Coming to the U.S. just in time gave them a
    chance at a life.
  • Prayer, in their minds, will make them more than
    just dust.

8
Mr. Savo
  • Tony Savo is the middle-aged fighter with an eye
    patch who sleeps on the left side of Reuven
    during his hospital stay. He is vivacious,
    enigmatic, and constantly in everyone's business.
  • He was severely injured in a fight and
    unfortunately lost his right eye.

9
Illness and Mortality
  • Because Mr. Savo was injured in a fight he is no
    longer able to go back to that.
  • This event makes him question his faith and
    realize he isnt invincible or immortal.
  • He deals fairly well with the fact that he has
    lost his eye.

10

Sickness Immortality
  • Billy Merrit  Billy Merrit is the
    eleven-year-old boy who occupies the hospital bed
    next to Reuven. He was in an car accident in
    which his mother was killed. Billy has been
    blinded, and an operation to restore his sight
    fails. Billy's plight awakens Reuven's
    compassion.

11
Relations to the Story
  • Billys blindness effects the story in many ways.
    It shapes who Billy is as a person and how he as
    a person effected Reuven while they were both in
    the hospital.
  • How Billys situation relates to Sickness
    Mortality is he was blind and that other people
    had to learn to live with it as well as him.

12
Symbolism?
  • Billy suffered with being blind in the story but
    did his blindness stand for something more?
  • One possible theory of the symbolism behind
    Billys blindness is that much like being blind,
    Billy was young and couldnt see the whole
    picture at that age and in most cases hasnt
    experienced some of the things that many of the
    other kids or adults for that matter have
    experienced.

13
Revuen Malter
  • Reuven Malter Reuven Malter is a fifteen
    year-old orthodox Jewish boy who is hit in the
    eye with a baseball, by Danny Saunders. From that
    day, his life is forever changed and viewpoint
    altered.

14
Revuen Malter
  • Reuven realizes mortality in many circumstances.
  • With the injury of his eye it gives him a new
    view point of life and a new brilliance to
    ordinary things that he hadnt been able to see
    with his sight before.
  • Then with his fathers health steadily declining
    throughout the book and a sudden heart attack, he
    realizes the fragility of life.
  • Also he has lost his mother early in life already.

15
Mickey
  • Mickey Mickey is a young boy with chronic
    stomach problems who is staying in a nearby ward
    of the hospital. He comes to visit the optometric
    ward to ask Tony to throw around a ball with him.
    He is another example of illness that is present
    in the book.

16
Hospital Staff
  • Just another aspect in the book to how fragile
    our bodes are and a reminder to how prone our
    bodies are to illnesses.
  • Dr. Snydman Dr. Snydman takes care of Reuven at
    the hospital and operates on his eye. He tells
    Reuven that there is a possibility of loss of
    sight in his left eye, but ultimately heals
    Reuven's eyesight completely.

17
David Malter
  • Constantly coughing
  • Suffers heart attack
  • Causes David to confront his mortality
  • Becomes deeply involved in Zionist movement

18
Bibliography
  • http//www.bookrags.com/notes/cho/CHR.html
  • http//www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/chos
    en/themes.html
  • http//www.bookrags.com/notes/cho/CHR.html
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