Friends are treasures - that's why I value friendship more than the most expensive
material things in this world. In a way, they hold the "selves" in me that keeps who I am
now from breaking apart. I started building friendships as far as my memory could reach
from my kindergarten classmates who were also my neighbors to my freshmen classmates
Friendships in the world today have many types of relationships. There is something
unique and special about each of them. For example, the relationship between father and
son. In the Father-Son Relationships The author develops the theme of father-son
relationships through the related ways between David & Reuven Malter and Reb & Danny
Saunders. The devoted relationship went along with the novel when Reuven's mother has died
before the novel began, and Danny's mother receives little more than a brief mention
throughout the entirety of the novel. The author allows a great deal in the father-son
relationship, suggesting the gathering ways that a father may raise a son such as Reb
Saunders' strict training as compared to David Malter's open and direct relationship with
Reuven. The author also offered the fatherly relationship with a strong sense of devotion;
as the son of a tzaddik, Danny Saunders is expected to be a tzaddik. Maybe the most
striking example of the importance of father-son relationships in The Chosen is Danny's
response to David Malter's question of whether he will raise his son in silence, for
Danny's answer he said, "Yes. If I can't find another way." It shocked me because he said
he will do so unless he finds a better way, and that way is doing the correct way, like
Reb Saunders' methods and a stress role of the fatherly position.
Friendship is special in a way because it is the only relationship that you choose
the person that you want to have a relation with. In today's world, people trust friends more
than...