Similarities and Difference of Nava, from Nava and Danny from the Chosen

Chaim Potok's young protagonists, Nava and Danny, in spite of their great differences in the way their were brought up, and their religion, encounter many similar situations in their stories. Some that are more obvious then the others but all hold an important factor in each of their lives and will forever change them.
In the story Nava, Nava's life in changed when she stands up to Tim Boynton, a drug-dealing classmate. Though her time of trouble she could reply on her parents to talk it through since they were really close, although her father would never tell her or answer her question on what he was like in his earlier years, before Joe Redhill saved his life. At the end of her story, Nava was ready to know his secret.
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