- Danny and Reuven are now in college! Danny is studying about Freud and views of the mind.
- Reuven and Danny are still very good friends and tell each other their deepest thoughts.
- Reuven decided to tell his father that Danny didn't want to follow his dad and continue being a Judaism or becoming the next tzaddik because he doesn't believe in it. He wasn't sure about it at first, but now he is after all the readings he did. Reuvens dad told him that Reb Saunder will be devastated to hear this. It's better knowing the truth than living a lie.
- Reb Suander knew it all along! He knew about his son and what he wanted. He has confessed it to Reuven while Danny was there to hear it too.
- Suander acted the way he did because he didn't want Danny to come out like his brother. He knew that his son had a great mind and for the first time he has spoken and let his true feelings come out. Even "tears rolled slowly down alongside the bridge of his nose and disappeared into his beard" (279).
- Saunder has told everyone that Danny is going to study psychology and he won't be having that arranged marriage anymore. Also, Mr. Saunder explain to Danny that why he treated him with silence. He just found no better way to manage with everything going on and asked Danny for his pardon.
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- Will Danny regret not becoming a tzaddik?
- Why did Saunder ask Danny if he would raise his son in silence?
- Did Saunder ask Danny to explain his studies or did he just accept it not wanting to hear about it?
- How will Reuven and Danny raise their children?
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- psych (210): to figure out
- morbid (217): affected by a disease
- immaculately (218): clean; pure
- smicha (275): to rely on
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- "He was an old man with a long, gray beard who wore a black coat ans was constantly smoking cigarettes" (212). Imagery.
- "Is Danny thinking to abandon his Judaism" (265). Man vs. Man and Man vs. Self.
- "Danny is now like a person waiting to be let out of jail" (265). Simile.
- "What an anguish it is to have to have a Daniel, whose mind is like a pearl, like a sun" (276). Simile.
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- Talking about issues always makes it all for the better. Things may not have gone how everyone planned, but everyone has conceived some happiness.
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