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Analytical Essay On Dawn By Elie Wiesel

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“Elisha, a young Jewish Holocaust survivor now living as a terrorist in British-controlled Palestine, awaits dawn, when he has been ordered to kill a captive English officer. Caught between the manifold horrors of the past and the troubling dilemmas of the present, Elisha wrestles with guilt, ghosts, and ultimately God as he awaits the appointed hour for his act of assassination.” (Wiesel). In the novel Dawn, Elisha chooses to continue down the path of revenge. Elisha wants to know the answers to why his family and the Jews were tortured without reason. This is why Elisha chose the path of revenge. Gad leads the resistance movement through revenge and Elisha follows his path. Elisha had killed enemies along the path he had chosen. Then he was given the ultimate test, killing an innocent man in cold blood at dawn. Elisha lacks the mental strength to murder someone so he tries to find a reason to kill. The obvious reasons were hatred and revenge. Elisha is uncertain of what is right and what is wrong. He debates with himself if killing an innocent man is right. …show more content…

He never saw himself as a terrorist but Gad changed all of that. Elisha wanted to believe that Gad had not become a terrorist, but that was the truth. Gad was not fighting for freedom. Elisha thought he accepted to be a freedom fighter but instead to accepted to kill people he did not even know or hate. Elisha changed from being the murdered to the murderer. Gad influenced the path of revenge that Elisha had chosen. Elisha was ordered to execute a British soldier named John Dawson. Knowing that he has to kill Dawson, Elisha tries to hate him because he struggles with the job of killing an innocent

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