In "Growing Up" in Apa's not trusting Naomi as a teenager and as a person, provoked her to brake the rules, where as in The Chosen Mr. Malter's trust in Reuven led him to be a better person with the knowledge he had given him.

Reuven's father had told him that his eye might not be able to heal fully or properly. Mr. Malter did not want to tell Reuven the truth about his eye. In any case he knew that Reuven deserved to know the devastating truth about the scar tissue. "I have never been good at hiding things from you, have I (Potok 49). "I will tell you what they told me about the eye (Potok 49). Mr. Malter had always tried to be as truthful as possible with Reuven. Reuven probably wouldn't be as respectful and truthful with his father if Mr. Malter hadn't been as loving...