Values in "The Chosen"
analytical Essay
517 words
Throughout my reading of the novel, The Chosen, by Chaim Potok, and I definitely did read it, I found three distinct values to be evident. Friendship, individuality and religion were very focused on and even shaped the lives of the two main characters. Each of these values have a big impact on my life not only since I have come to Augustana, but every day since I can remember. To define friendship is not easy. It is so many things and so many feelings. It is kindness, compassion, honesty, trustworthiness, respect and dependability. It is being there for another person when they need you, whether to listen or to help guide them in the right direction. It is standing beside them when it is their time to shine and also when they have stumbled into the dark. Being a friend also shows a lot about yourself. Sometimes being a friend can put you in a tough situation but proves what a good person you are. Friendship is something everyone needs to live. They need the love, the support and the companionship. Without it, we will always feel alone. A goal of mine in coming to...
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how they found three distinct values in the novel, the chosen, by chaim potok. friendship, individuality, and religion shaped the lives of the two main characters.
- Defines friendship as many things and feelings, including kindness, compassion, honesty, trustworthiness, respect, and dependability. friendship is something everyone needs to live.
- Opines that individuality plays an important role in everyday life. individuality is important as it sets one person apart from the next.
- Analyzes how they found three distinct values in the novel, the chosen, by chaim potok. friendship, individuality, and religion shaped the lives of the two main characters.
- Defines friendship as many things and feelings, including kindness, compassion, honesty, trustworthiness, respect, and dependability. friendship is something everyone needs to live.
- Opines that individuality plays an important role in everyday life. individuality is important as it sets one person apart from the next.
- Explains that religion plays a smaller role in other people's lives. it is having faith and devoting part of your life to an almighty being.
- Analyzes how danny and reuven grew to realize who they really are and what they needed in life. they formed an inseparable bond that brought together two very different individuals.
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- Explains that modern-day writers tend to present genuine friendship as intentional, private, and happening between independent individuals. this is different in main respects with the traditional view and stems from a specific view of selfhood.
- Explains that aristotle differentiates between genuine friendships and two other forms based on pleasure and common usefulness.
- Opines that genuine friendship is rooted in virtue and common goals, but there is an absence of firmly established and socially agreed standards for what makes someone a genuine friend.
- Explains that modern-day writers tend to present genuine friendship as intentional, private, and happening between independent individuals. this is different in main respects with the traditional view and stems from a specific view of selfhood.
- Explains that aristotle differentiates between genuine friendships and two other forms based on pleasure and common usefulness.
- Explains that friendships based on pleasure are different from those that rely on utility. the young are more inclined to fall in and out of love because they are persuaded by their feelings.
- Explains that genuine friendships are based on goodness, and only people who are good and share common virtues and goals can have a real friendship.
- Analyzes suzanne stern-gillet's view that friendships of pleasure and utility can be seen as procedures, while genuine friends that show virtue are activities that are vital to living the good life.
- Analyzes how aristotle's "nicomachean ethics" shows the close relationship between virtuous activity and friendship.
- Analyzes how aristotle's answer shows the struggle with the problem of moral education, given human defenselessness to harm from those who lack virtue.
- Concludes that genuine friendship is rooted in virtue and common goals, and is the only true form of friendship. great philosophers like aristotle and cicero agree and dismiss the other two forms, utility and pleasure, as being genuine.
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