| 1 | * 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. |
| 2 | * 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. |
| 3 | * IronWoobie: Danny. Reuven too, because being a friend of an IronWoobie makes it contagious. |
| 4 | ** 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. |
| 5 | * ValuesDissonance: Many would consider raising in silence to be abusive and, at the least, it is a strange way to teach compassion. |
| 6 | * WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic : This is Chaim Potok. There's always something symbolic. |
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