The Chosen/YMMV

• Ho Yay: In the third chapter, Reuven is surprisingly happy to see Danny, who had almost blinded him just a few days earlier. In the fifth, he is looking up at the sky and thinks, randomly, that it's the same color as Danny's eyes. And that's before they become close.
• Iron Woobie: Danny. Reuven too, because being a friend of an Iron Woobie makes it contagious.
  • Even Rebbe Saunders, in a weird way.
• Values Dissonance: Many would consider raising in silence to be abusive and, at the least, it is a strange way to teach compassion.