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him there every afternoon, and frequently my father came with me. (p. 166) Danny and Reuven?s friendship has grown and they both rely on each other for help and companionship. Now that it is summer they meet every day in the library to do their reading together. Reuven?s father also acts as a mentor to Danny who has no father figure who he can turn to for help with his studying. 20. Miserable, he said. Had I ever sat in a bus with my father for hours and not exchanged a single word of conversation, except for a short discussion about a passage of Talmud? No. Danny has no one he can talk to for advice and his father is more of a school teacher than a loving mentor that the fifteen year old boy needs. Mr. Saunders? method of teaching Danny what he needs to know later in life is

making him a smart person but Danny does not want to inherit his father?s Hasidic leadership because he does not want to be like his father. With no one to learn from Danny turns to books by Freud and this may influence his way of thinking and further upset his father. Chapter Eleven 21.I saw only emptiness and fear and a kind of sudden, total end to the things that I had never experienced before. (p. 179) Theodore Roosevelt, president of the United States, has just died and it has filled Reuven with immense grief. He does not fully understand why he is sad but only knows that a great man has died. Along with Judaism Reuven?s home country is very important to him and Roosevelt?s death is very upsetting to Reuven. The president was probably a role model to Reuven especially now

that he is becoming interested in politics and other leadership roles. 22.?How the world drinks our blood,? Reb Saunders said. ?How the world makes makes us suffer. It is the will of God. We must accept the will of God.? (p. 181) Reb Saunders is personally hurt by the horrible massacre of six million Jews in the Nazi?s concentration camps. These people were Reb?s followers, and some even his friends. The genocide of this many people has affected the entire world and the remaining Jews including Reuven and Danny?s father are very disturbed by these events. Chapter Twelve 23.?I was really concerned about his health because all along I?ve wanted him to be able to take my father?s place.? (p.190) Through reading Freud Danny has figured out that he does not want to take his father?s

place as a tzaddik. Danny feels that deep in his subconscious he wants his little brother to take his place and that is why he has always been concerned with his health; not because he cares for him, but for selfish reasons. Danny has found his way out of being a rabbi and this gives him hope for his future. 24.?I?ll want you around on that day, friend. I?ll need you around on that day.? (p. 191) Danny knows that he does not want to take his father?s place and become a rabbi but the hardest part will be telling his father this. Danny seeks comfort in Reuven and asks for his help in confronting his father; both boys are greatly intimidated by the powerful Reb Saunders. During a time when both boys fathers are not there to help them they confide in each other for strength. Chapter

Thirteen 25.? I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing. But the man that lives that span, he is something.? (p. 204) Mr. Malter is teaching Reuven an important lesson about controlling his own destiny. Not only should Reuven not stand idle and do something with the gift of life that was given to him but he should also try to impress this idea on others. This is the key factor in Mr. Malter?s way of thinking and the main reason why he puts himself through the torture of teaching and helping others before he even takes care of himself. 26.Danny was not to see me, talk to me, listen to me, be found within four feet of me. My father and I had been excommunicated from the

Saunder?s family. (p. 217) Reuven and Danny?s friendship seems to have come to an end. Reb Saunders will not allow his son to be with Reuven because of their Zionists views. Mr. Saunder?s thinks that Reuven will influence Danny in a negative way and as punishment for remaining friends Danny has been threatened with being sent to an out of town yeshiva where he will only be able to study to be a rabbi. What the two boys struggled through, not caring what others thought of them, seems impossible now with Mr. Saunder?s unyielding views toward the Zionist beliefs of the Malter family. Chapter Fourteen 27.And now it was also I and not only Reb Saunders who was able to listen to Danny?s voice only through a Talmudic disputation. (p. 225) Now that Reuven is not allowed to talk with