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Stick Fate into A Bin In the beginning, God stuck his hands into two separate hats and pulled out two names. He announced, "I hereby pronounce Danny Saunders and Reuven Malter as friends from this day forward, for better or for worse, in sickness and in health, so long as they both shall live." Does that scene belong in The Chosen? No, it does not. In The Chosen by Chaim Potok, friends are selected deliberately with ulterior motives in mind. They are not chosen by fate, the Talmud, or even baseballs in the eye, no matter how convincing those sound. Friendships are mutual. Generally speaking, there are no friendships that consist of only one person; therefore, for a friendship to exist, there must be a joint agreement between two people to be friends. Having established that fact, a problem now exists: How exactly do two different people consent to be friends? Danny...

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