Two Boys, One American Dream
TWO BOYS, ONE AMERICAN DREAM
Baseball is a rugged sport, uniquely American. Two Jewish boys meet during one of the most hotly contested baseball games of the high school season, in New York City during World War II. The teams' rivalryone team are Hassidim, the other orthodoxfuels intense acrimony between them until a freak accident during the game sends one to the hospital with an injury that nearly costs him an eye. The near loss of the boy's eye creates a bond between the boys which develops into a deep and lasting friendship.
Both boys, Reuven and Danny, are the sons of European immigrants. In The Chosen, by Chaim Potok, the boys feel the pull of the "American Dream" with its promise of boundless opportunity and freedom of choicesomething quite alien to their European forebears. The boys instinctively sense this opportunity, and as they grow up, each develops his own set of ambitions. They are hardly unrealistic: each wants to go to college to pursue his own interests.......
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