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* GeniusBonus: While immensely popular with non-Jews, being an observant Jew and grounded in Jewish history helps a lot - especially in the sequel ''The Promise'', which goes into the many scholarly debates raging in the 1950's in yeshivas, and features a character who is an {{Expy}} of the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism, Mordechai Kaplan.
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** Even Rebbe Saunders, in a weird way.
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** Even Rebbe Saunders, in a weird way. Before coming to America, he went through the TraumaCongaLine in a big way: his first wife and child were murdered in a pogrom that he himself barely survived (he was shot, stabbed, and left for dead). And at the end we find out that his missing older brother was murdered in Auschwitz.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic : This is Chaim Potok. There's always something symbolic.
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* ValuesDissonance: Many would consider raising in silence to be abusive and, at the least, it is a strange way to teach compassion.
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* ValuesDissonance: Many would consider raising in silence to be abusive and, at the least, it is a strange way to teach compassion.compassion.
* TheWoobie: Daniel Saunders
* TheWoobie: Daniel Saunders
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* HoYay: In the third chapter, Reuven is surprisingly happy to see Danny, who had almost blinded him just a few days earlier. In the fifth, he is looking up at the sky and thinks, randomly, that it's the same color as Danny's eyes. And that's ''before'' they become close.
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* HoYay: In the third chapter, Reuven is surprisingly happy to see Danny, who had almost blinded him just a few days earlier. In the fifth, he is looking up at the sky and thinks, randomly, that it's the same color as Danny's eyes. And that's ''before'' they become close.close.
* IronWoobie: Danny. Reuven too, because being a friend of an IronWoobie makes it contagious.
** Even Rebbe Saunders, in a weird way.
* ValuesDissonance: Many would consider raising in silence to be abusive and, at the least, it is a strange way to teach compassion.
* IronWoobie: Danny. Reuven too, because being a friend of an IronWoobie makes it contagious.
** Even Rebbe Saunders, in a weird way.
* ValuesDissonance: Many would consider raising in silence to be abusive and, at the least, it is a strange way to teach compassion.
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* HoYay: In the third chapter, Reuven is surprisingly happy to see Danny, who had almost blinded him just a few days earlier. In the fifth, he is looking up at the sky and thinks, randomly, that it's the same color as Danny's eyes. And that's ''before'' they become close.
