Dawn by Elie Wiesel
The book I read for my book review was Dawn, bye Elie Wiesel. This story represents the post WWII struggle of the Israeli freedom fighters - one young man in particular, who has found himself on the other side of the gun. Wiesel himself severed his time in the death camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald during the War, and had previously written Night, the memoirs of his experiences. The purpose of this book, in my mind, was to express the inner most thoughts and the anguish of Elisha. Elisha is 18 years old. He was recruited by a gentleman named Gad, who turned him into a fighter. He has killed before for their cause, but only in groups - never alone. "... Our bullets were a flaming wall on which their lives were shattered... My five comrades and I set out to either kill or to be killed." Pg28. But now, Elisha wasn't in a group. He had been ordered to execute an English officer, John Dawson, as to compensate for the British capturing David ben Moshe, one of their own. In tradition, executions always took place at dawn in their culture; usually around 5AM. Elisha has less than twelve hours before he will be labeled as a murderer for the rest of his life. He's having a difficult time coming to the reality that he is going to hav
At one point, during the night before Dawson's death, Elisha sees the ghosts of his parents, and old Master, of his fiend Yerachmiel, and of a little beggar boy. " This, I feel is another powerful quote that makes good food for thought. To execute a stranger would be the same thing. This book, I feel, is a definitely one to read. These ghosts help Elisha cope with what he is about to go through. He gets to know him, about his life, and family. It also takes a good look inside the fighting that went on between the British, and the Israelis, as to give us a better understanding of what really happens in a terrorist war. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day take on a new and deeper meaning. He even promises to mail a letter to Dawson's son after he's killed.
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