I came to find that this essential question was very important in determining what resonated with my novel and was a fitting question to research.

In the article, the author wrote,"'As soon as one sees another person, an impression is formed,”' Rule says. "This happens so quickly – just a small fraction of a second – that what we see can sometimes dominate what we know.”'

Although people already heard information or obtained knowledge from others about another individual, the experience that they have with that individual is personalized. As a result, their previous knowledge from others is removed;they tend to overcome it and make their own judgements.

Furthermore, in "The Chosen," Reuven did not believe in what the other players on his team say about the opposing team. He did not believe that they were "murderers," but once he got in front of the opposing team, he made his own judgements.

In addition, it was also stated that,'"We judge books by their covers, and we can't help but do it,” says Nicholas Rule of the University of Toronto. "With effort, we can overcome this to some extent, but we are continually tasked with needing to correct ourselves.” The less time we have to make our judgments, the more likely we are to go with our gut, even over fact, he says."

In other words, a person cannot fully know what the other is going through. A person does not have knowledge of what the other had been going through or what their character truly was, just by taking a quick glance at them.

In "The Chosen," Reuven judged Danny, a team player on the opposing side, once an incident occurred. Reuven automatically judged Danny and did not understand that what he had done was merely an accident, and they even became best friends once they got the correct perception on what had clearly happened. This explains how judgements based on first impressions are biased because clearly, a person cannot fully know the other person just from a simple encounter. As shown in the picture, people need to see what is behind other people's masks before making their own personalized judgements.

As stated in the article," Together, these studies help to illustrate the often inescapable nature of how we form impressions of other people based on their appearance,” Rule says. "Not only should people not assume that others will be able to overcome aspects of their appearance when evaluating them, but also those of us on the other end should be actively working to consider that our impressions of others are biased.”'

As it was written, appearance should not determine who a person is. Merely looking at someone and seeing how they reflect off for the first time should not reveal who a person truly is.

In addition, as it was stated in, "The Chosen," Reuven was describing Danny, saying that, "He moved in a loose-jointed, disheveled sort of way, all arms and legs, talking in Yiddish to one of his teammates and ignoring me completely as he passed by. I told myself that I did not like his Hasidic-bred sense of superiority and that it would be a great pleasure to defeat him and his team in this afternoon’s game (Potok 37).

Reuven came to the conclusion that Danny was a negative person just by the way he walked, looked, and acted, solely by taking a short glance at him. However, later on as Reuven and Danny came to understand and comply with each other, they became very close friends and their first impression of each other was clearly mislead.