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%% * HeroesWantRedheads: Danny certainly appreciates Rachel Gordon.
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%% * JewsLoveToArgue: Takes the conflicts from the first book UpToEleven.

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* HollywoodPsych: One of the book's flaws is that, [[ScienceMarchesOn to modern readers]] it suffers ''deeply'' from this. Danny, in his clinical training, treats a very disturbed young man. SingleIssuePsychology and EpiphanyTherapy heavily factor into it. Redeemed somewhat by [[spoiler:the ending, which acknowledges that despite the treatment helping a great deal, the young man and his family will likely be dealing with the trauma of both his illness and its treatment for years to come.]]

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* HollywoodPsych: One of the book's flaws is that, [[ScienceMarchesOn to modern readers]] readers, it suffers ''deeply'' from this. Danny, in his clinical training, treats a very disturbed young man. SingleIssuePsychology and EpiphanyTherapy heavily factor into it. Redeemed somewhat by [[spoiler:the ending, which acknowledges that despite the treatment helping a great deal, the young man and his family will likely be dealing with the trauma of both his illness and its treatment for years to come.]]

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* BerserkButton: Modern scholarship methods and slacking off on Talmud, to Rav Kalman.
* BetterAsFriends: Reuven and Rachel Gordon. [[spoiler:She ends up marrying Danny.]]

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%% * BerserkButton: Modern scholarship methods and slacking off on Talmud, to Rav Kalman.
%% * BetterAsFriends: Reuven and Rachel Gordon. [[spoiler:She ends up marrying Danny.]]



* CreepyChild: Michael Gordon, though it's due to his mental illness more than anything.
* DysfunctionalFamily: The Gordons.

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%% * CreepyChild: Michael Gordon, though it's due to his mental illness more than anything.
%% * DysfunctionalFamily: The Gordons.



* FriendlyEnemies: [[spoiler:Reuven and Rav Kalman, in the end.]]
* HeroesWantRedheads: Danny certainly appreciates Rachel Gordon.

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%% * FriendlyEnemies: [[spoiler:Reuven and Rav Kalman, in the end.]]
%% * HeroesWantRedheads: Danny certainly appreciates Rachel Gordon.



* IJustWantToBeLoved: Michael.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Michael again.
* InadequateInheritor: Averted; Danny's brother Levi is shaping up to be a damn fine successor to his father, and is in much better physical health.
* InsufferableGenius: Michael.

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%% * IJustWantToBeLoved: Michael.
%% * IJustWantToBeNormal: Michael again.
* InadequateInheritor: Averted; Danny's brother Levi is shaping up to be a damn fine successor to his father, and is in much better physical health.
%% * InsufferableGenius: Michael.



* JewsLoveToArgue: Takes the conflicts from the first book UpToEleven.
* JewishMother: Ruth Gordon. It's implied that she's a major factor in Michael being so screwed up.
* MyGirlIsNotASlut: Danny flat-out asks Rachel if she's a virgin. ([[TheUnreveal Her answer is not disclosed]].)
* UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity: Of course.

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%% * JewsLoveToArgue: Takes the conflicts from the first book UpToEleven.
%% * JewishMother: Ruth Gordon. It's implied that she's a major factor in Michael being so screwed up.
%% * MyGirlIsNotASlut: Danny flat-out asks Rachel if she's a virgin. ([[TheUnreveal Her answer is not disclosed]].)
* UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity: Of course.
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* PreacherMan: [[spoiler:Reuven, after much conflict, gets his ''semicha'' at the end.]]
* SoProudOfYou: [[spoiler:Reuven's father sheds ManlyTears when he finds out Reuven received ''semicha''.]]

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%% * PreacherMan: [[spoiler:Reuven, after much conflict, gets his ''semicha'' at the end.]]
%% * SoProudOfYou: [[spoiler:Reuven's father sheds ManlyTears when he finds out Reuven received ''semicha''.]]



* SternTeacher: Rav Kalman.
* TookALevelInKindness: Reb Saunders mellows out a ''lot''.

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%% * SternTeacher: Rav Kalman.
%% * TookALevelInKindness: Reb Saunders mellows out a ''lot''.
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* InadequateInheritor: Averted; Danny's brother Levi is shaping up to be damn fine successor to his father, and is in much better physical health.

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* InadequateInheritor: Averted; Danny's brother Levi is shaping up to be a damn fine successor to his father, and is in much better physical health.



* PreacherMan: [[spoiler:Reuven, after much conflict, gets his ''semicha'' at the end.'']]

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* PreacherMan: [[spoiler:Reuven, after much conflict, gets his ''semicha'' at the end.'']]]]
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* StalkerWithACrush: Michael Gordon comes off this way with his obsession both with [[BiTheWay Reuven]] and his [[{{Squick}} cousin Rachel]]. Mind you, he's only fifteen, but it's outright stated he has sexual fantasies about Rachel (and his behavior towards Reuven is [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior incredibly unsettling]]).

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* StalkerWithACrush: Michael Gordon comes off this way with his obsession both with [[BiTheWay Reuven]] Reuven and his [[{{Squick}} cousin Rachel]]. Mind you, he's only fifteen, but it's outright stated he has sexual fantasies about Rachel (and his behavior towards Reuven is [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior incredibly unsettling]]).
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* StalkerWithACrush: Michael Gordon comes off this way with his obsession both with [[BiTheWay Reuven]] and his [[{{Squick} cousin Rachel]]. Mind you, he's only fifteen, but it's outright stated he has sexual fantasies about Rachel (and his behavior towards Reuven is [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior incredibly unsettling]]).

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* StalkerWithACrush: Michael Gordon comes off this way with his obsession both with [[BiTheWay Reuven]] and his [[{{Squick} [[{{Squick}} cousin Rachel]]. Mind you, he's only fifteen, but it's outright stated he has sexual fantasies about Rachel (and his behavior towards Reuven is [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior incredibly unsettling]]).

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* CreepyChild: Michael Gordon, though it's due to his mental illness more than anything.



* IJustWantToBeNormal: Michael Gordon.

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* IJustWantToBeLoved: Michael.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Michael Gordon.again.


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* MyGirlIsNotASlut: Danny flat-out asks Rachel if she's a virgin. ([[TheUnreveal Her answer is not disclosed]].)


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* StalkerWithACrush: Michael Gordon comes off this way with his obsession both with [[BiTheWay Reuven]] and his [[{{Squick} cousin Rachel]]. Mind you, he's only fifteen, but it's outright stated he has sexual fantasies about Rachel (and his behavior towards Reuven is [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior incredibly unsettling]]).
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* NewYorkCity: Of course.

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* NewYorkCity: UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity: Of course.

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* HollywoodPsych: One of the books flaws is that, [[ScienceMarchesOn to modern readers]] it suffers ''deeply'' from this. Danny, in his clinical training, treats a very disturbed young man. SingleIssuePsychology and EpiphanyTherapy heavily factor into it. Redeemed somewhat by [[spoiler:the ending, which acknowledges that despite the treatment helping a great deal, the young man and his family will likely be dealing with the trauma of both his illness and its treatment for years to come.]]

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* HollywoodPsych: One of the books book's flaws is that, [[ScienceMarchesOn to modern readers]] it suffers ''deeply'' from this. Danny, in his clinical training, treats a very disturbed young man. SingleIssuePsychology and EpiphanyTherapy heavily factor into it. Redeemed somewhat by [[spoiler:the ending, which acknowledges that despite the treatment helping a great deal, the young man and his family will likely be dealing with the trauma of both his illness and its treatment for years to come.]]



* JewishAndNerdy: What did you expect?

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* InsufferableGenius: Michael.
* JewishAndNerdy: What did you expect?In addition to Danny and Reuven, we have Michael Gordon (who's quite knowledgeable about science) and his cousin Rachel, who's doing a master's thesis on ''Literature/{{Ulysses}}''.
* JewsLoveToArgue: Takes the conflicts from the first book UpToEleven.
* JewishMother: Ruth Gordon. It's implied that she's a major factor in Michael being so screwed up.
* NewYorkCity: Of course.
* OpenMindedParent: David Malter returns. And apparently Rachel's parents read a bootlegged copy of ''Literature/LadyChatterleysLover'' with her and pointed out the dirty bits.





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\n* PreacherMan: [[spoiler:Reuven, after much conflict, gets his ''semicha'' at the end.'']]
* SoProudOfYou: [[spoiler:Reuven's father sheds ManlyTears when he finds out Reuven received ''semicha''.]]
* SternTeacher: Rav Kalman.
* TookALevelInKindness: Reb Saunders mellows out a ''lot''.
* TraumaCongaLine: Rav Kalman is a Holocaust survivor, and it's mentioned that he was among those who survived Nazi experiments. Not much else is said, but the reader can [[ColdBloodedTorture fill in the blanks]].

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The 1969 sequel to ''Literature/TheChosen''. Chaim Potok takes us back to New York City a few years later, where Reuven Malter is now studying for his ''semicha'' (rabbinic ordination) and Danny Saunders is finishing up his doctorate in clinical psychology. In the background, great changes are shaking up the Yeshiva world: new rabbis from Europe, refugees from UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust, have arrived and are pushing an almost reactionary brand of Orthodoxy, threatening the livelihood of Reuven's father, who is moving in an ever more progressive direction. And the Malter family's friendship with the family of Abraham Gordon, a most unorthodox Jewish scholar, has repercussions that - in the end - no one could have foreseen.

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!! This book provides examples of:
* AFriendInNeed: Abraham and Ruth Gordon desperately need to treat their son. Later, Abraham Gordon gives Reuven's father David a position when he's forced out of his job.
* BerserkButton: Modern scholarship methods and slacking off on Talmud, to Rav Kalman.
* BetterAsFriends: Reuven and Rachel Gordon. [[spoiler:She ends up marrying Danny.]]
* CallBack: Danny is raised in silence in ''Literature/TheChosen''. Here he uses this to treat a disturbed young man.
* CultureClash: Danny was raised in a strictly observant Hasidic family. Rachel was raised by less observant, modern Jews with a relaxed attitude to the secular world.
* DysfunctionalFamily: The Gordons.
* FiredTeacher: Reuven's dad taught at a Jewish high school but left because of a factional dispute. [[spoiler:He's hired by Abraham Gordon at the end.]]
* FriendlyEnemies: [[spoiler:Reuven and Rav Kalman, in the end.]]
* HeroesWantRedheads: Danny certainly appreciates Rachel Gordon.
* HollywoodPsych: One of the books flaws is that, [[ScienceMarchesOn to modern readers]] it suffers ''deeply'' from this. Danny, in his clinical training, treats a very disturbed young man. SingleIssuePsychology and EpiphanyTherapy heavily factor into it. Redeemed somewhat by [[spoiler:the ending, which acknowledges that despite the treatment helping a great deal, the young man and his family will likely be dealing with the trauma of both his illness and its treatment for years to come.]]
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Michael Gordon.
* InadequateInheritor: Averted; Danny's brother Levi is shaping up to be damn fine successor to his father, and is in much better physical health.
* JewishAndNerdy: What did you expect?
* ParentsAsPeople: Michael Gordon's parents love him, but fail to see how he's being bullied over his father's scholarship. And his mother is emotionally neglectful.


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