The Promise of Chaim Potok1.In 10-12 sentences, write a brief description of the novel's plot. Make sure you clarify the main conflict of the story. 1. At the beginning of the novel, the main character, Reuben, spends some time with his father at their cottage. Her friend Rachel is also holidaying nearby. Reuben discovers that Rachel's fourteen-year-old cousin Michael is mentally ill, and Reuben appears to be the only person Michael will talk to. Towards the end of the summer, Reuben's best friend Danny comes to visit Reuben and the Gordons (Rachel's family) invite Danny over to talk about Michael because Danny is a genius and is studying psychology. At the end of the summer, Michael is admitted to a treatment center. where Danny is working. Reuben becomes friends with Michael's father, Abraham Gordon, a highly respected scholar. Unfortunately, his ideas are not approved by Reuben's professor, Rav Kalman. Rav Kalman tells Reuben that if he continues to see Abraham and Michael Gordon, he will not be given hissmicha, the degree he has worked so long for. Additionally, Michael does not respond well at the treatment center and becomes violent. Danny decides to use an experimental treatment on Michael, which involves not letting him talk to anyone or interact with anything except his therapist. The major conflict occurs when Michael becomes catatonic and it seems that Reuben will never get his smicha and Michael will never heal. Danny decides to have a long conversation with Rav Kalman and convinces him to at least give Reuben the smicha exam. During the exam, Reuben uses a method called test marking, which is rigorous... center of the paper... of the following categories to describe how you would grade the book. Using the novel's subject matter, language, character development, and other elements, explain why you rated the book as you did. 5. I would say that the book is very interesting. I would classify it this way because, firstly, I could identify with the subject. I knew most of the Hebrew or Yiddish terms before the author translated them, and while they didn't directly apply to me, I could see parallels between the novel and my life. The language of the novel was well chosen, at an intermediate level, not too difficult to understand, but very well written. Some of the thematic metaphors used in the book were so brilliant that I wish I had done a full study of this book, because I know I must have missed much of the depth of the novel..