Plot
The game played in Ch. 1
What is a softball game?
The narrator of the book.
Who is Reuven Malter?
The borough of New York the story takes place in.
What is Brooklyn?
The issue at the heart of Ch. 1.
What is assimilation?
That which is affected by the softball game
What is sight?
The world event that occurs at the start of the book.
What is World War II?
The father of the protagonist.
Who is Mr. Malter?
The hospital the narrator ends up at.
What is Brooklyn Memorial Hospital?
The theme exemplified between the meeting of the narrator and Mr. Malter.
What is the relationship between father and son?
How Reb Saunders often responds to Danny's questions.
What is silence?
The event that sends the narrator to the hospital.
What is getting hit by a softball?
The boxer who lost his right eye
Who is Tony Savo?
The neighborhood the softball game takes place in.
What is Williamsburg?
The theme exemplified by the studies of mathematics, Talmud, and psychology.
What is intellectual study?
The commentaries read by Jewish boys in yeshiva.
What is Talmud?
The event that occurs while the narrator is in the hospital.
What is D-Day?
The nurse
Who is Mrs. Carpenter?
Where Danny goes to learn from Mr. Malter.
The library.
The theme at play between the relationship between the narrator and deuteragonist.
What is friendship?
What Reuven feels while in the hospital.
What is pain?
The event that happens to Billy at the end of Ch. 4.
What is surgery?
The pitcher for the narrator's softball team
Who is Schwartzie?
The neighborhood of the narrator.
What is Crown Heights?
The theme shown by Danny being chosen to be the next rabbi and also Reuven being chosen to be Danny's friend.
What is destiny?
That which separates Hasidic Jews from other Jews in Brooklyn.
What is tradition?