Elie Wiesel's Dawn Quotes

“If you ever meet a creature with eyes everywhere. You can be sure that it is death.”(22) in this book Dawn written by Elie Wiesel this quote is a representation of an ideology Elisha, the main character, learned. Elisha goes through a series of events where the people in his life impact him mentally. The three people who have significantly impacted Elisha’s life in distinctive ways are Gad, Catherine and The beggar. The beggar has impacted Elisha’s life by teaching him the importance of night and day, In the text it states "Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning”(4) This portrays how important distinguishing night and day is for the Beggar. He is trying to explain to Elisha how powerful night is compared to day. He wants to show the significance of how our thoughts impact us and take over us during the

I love you, Catherine, I love you."(30) This demonstrates how Catherine is playing with Elisha’s emotion for her own sexual fetish. This quote also shows how Elisha is being mentally brainwashed by Catherine. Due to the fact this was his first time with a girl. In dawn it also states “she knew that I had died and come back to earth dead. This was why she had spoken to me of love and wanted to make love with me. I saw it all quite clearly. She liked making love with little boys who were going to die"(30) This explains how Elisha came to the realization that he was being played. This took a toll on Elisha because he is more aware and cautious of the women around him. This also impacted him mentally because whenever he hears “poor boy, poor boy” he gets a flashback of Catherine and relives the moments he was with