Dawn

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Summary: "Dawn"--a powerful and ironic novel
Review: "Dawn" is a fictional novel about a young man who survived the Holocaust in World War II. He moved to Palestine and got involved in a Jewish terrorist group. In the book he is assigned to kill a British officer named John Dawson, who has been taken captive, by dawn. Although the boy does not want to kill Dawson, he knows that he must for the sake of not disappointing his gang.
Compared to "Night," the first book in Elie Wiesel's "The Night Trilogy," "Dawn" does not have as much history. The only real history in this novel is that the main character's background involves the Holocaust. However, I thought the book was still good. I thought it was ironic how the boy was once the one who was being beaten and starved for no reason, and yet he is now the one who is harming others for no reason. He turned to the "other side." I recommend this book for pleasure reading more than catching up on the history of the Holocaust and World War II, but it is definitely a powerful and gripping book.

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Summary: "Dawn"--a powerful and ironic novel
Review: "Dawn" is a fictional novel about a young man who survived the Holocaust in World War II. He moved to Palestine and got involved in a Jewish terrorist group. In the book he is assigned to kill a British officer named John Dawson, who has been taken captive, by dawn. Although the boy does not want to kill Dawson, he knows that he must for the sake of not disappointing his gang.
Compared to "Night," the first book in Elie Wiesel's "The Night Trilogy," "Dawn" does not have as much history. The only real history in this novel is that the main character's background involves the Holocaust. However, I thought the book was still good. I thought it was ironic how the boy was once the one who was being beaten and starved for no reason, and yet he is now the one who is harming others for no reason. He turned to the "other side." I recommend this book for pleasure reading more than catching up on the history of the Holocaust and World War II, but it is definitely a powerful and gripping book.

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Summary: A touching story.
Review: After reading Night, one feels so much empathy for this poor boy-what is perhaps even more disturbing than his original tale is the fact that he is still tormented. We for the most part have every oppurtunity and happiness available to us. Yet at 18 years old, this holocaust survivor is still suffering. Read this after you have read Night. Perhaps it isn't as good as its predecessor, but Dawn is an incredible story. He takes you deep into his own mind, penetrating even to the very spirit of mankind. His family was taken away, his God deserted him-yet he feels strong loyalties to both. It is incredible that so much can happen to one person in their lifetime. This is a good use of two hours of your time. This man has led an icredible life, the likes of which fiction could never touch. Read this book.

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Summary: It's a mirror image
Review: After surviving the holocaust, the young man who is the narrator arrives in France to study. Everything reminds him of the pain and affliction he suffered. while studying in France there is a knock on the door. The knock on the door opens a new chapter in his life. Two weeks later he is fighting in Palestine against the oppression the English establish in the Holly Land to keep the peace among both Jewish and Palestinians. The narrator is challenge by the authority to kill an English official. The narrator describes the mind games that he played on him self, and in the end he needs to figure out if to kill this man or to let him live. It is an awesome book that describes the challenge of the brain, in situations that are not common among human beings. Dawn recreates the story of the officials in war, which need to kill people but cannot do it because of morals. The tricky part of Dawn is figuring out what the right choice is and why it is the correct choice.

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Summary: Dawn
Review: Dawn is a story about Elisha, a young Israeli freedom fighter. The story tells a story about Elisha's Jewish values being put up against his call to duty; to kill an English Officer, John Dawson, at dawn. What Dawson is being killed for, it is not known. This aspect makes the story even more interesting for the reader because it puts an innocent man at the face of death.

I liked how Dawn put Elisha sort of against himself. On one side, he has his Jewish background and moral issues that come with his religion and on the other side, Elisha has the power of war and the pressure from his leader to kill this prisoner. Throughout the story, it goes throught the night before Elisha is suppose to murder John Dawson. Elisha can't stand the fact that tonite, he is known as Elisha, a young boy, but tomorrow he'll be known as a murderer. He has no family left, and horrible memories of his past in a Nazi death camp. In the end, Elisha grows up tremendously. John Dawsons' last word, "Elisha", shows the change that Elisha went through. People at that time were forced to leave their old selves behind. Young boys like Elisha had left their lives behind to become freedom fighters and to take care of the prisoners they caught.

Dawn was good in the way that it portrays Elisha's change from the beginning of the story to the end. In the beginning, Elisha was young, but was not new to death. He had lived and survived Nazi death camps and knew what death was. He always had that fear of a Nazi soldier choosing to shoot him one day in the camp. In the end, Elisha sees the other end of this two way fight. He is no longer just the victim of violence, but the initiater. He also sees how some of the soldiers at these death camps must have felt when they were ordered to kill prisoners for no apparent reason. Dawn was a good book that I enjoyed reading. Elie Wiesel keeps the reader wanting to know what will happen next and what John Dawson, the innocent English officer's fate will be.

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Summary: Dawn
Review: Dawn is a story about Elisha, a young Israeli freedom fighter. The story tells a story about Elisha's Jewish values being put up against his call to duty; to kill an English Officer, John Dawson, at dawn. What Dawson is being killed for, it is not known. This aspect makes the story even more interesting for the reader because it puts an innocent man at the face of death.

I liked how Dawn put Elisha sort of against himself. On one side, he has his Jewish background and moral issues that come with his religion and on the other side, Elisha has the power of war and the pressure from his leader to kill this prisoner. Throughout the story, it goes throught the night before Elisha is suppose to murder John Dawson. Elisha can't stand the fact that tonite, he is known as Elisha, a young boy, but tomorrow he'll be known as a murderer. He has no family left, and horrible memories of his past in a Nazi death camp. In the end, Elisha grows up tremendously. John Dawsons' last word, "Elisha", shows the change that Elisha went through. People at that time were forced to leave their old selves behind. Young boys like Elisha had left their lives behind to become freedom fighters and to take care of the prisoners they caught.

Dawn was good in the way that it portrays Elisha's change from the beginning of the story to the end. In the beginning, Elisha was young, but was not new to death. He had lived and survived Nazi death camps and knew what death was. He always had that fear of a Nazi soldier choosing to shoot him one day in the camp. In the end, Elisha sees the other end of this two way fight. He is no longer just the victim of violence, but the initiater. He also sees how some of the soldiers at these death camps must have felt when they were ordered to kill prisoners for no apparent reason. Dawn was a good book that I enjoyed reading. Elie Wiesel keeps the reader wanting to know what will happen next and what John Dawson, the innocent English officer's fate will be.

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Summary: Dawn is Good
Review: Dawn is about death and violence. Each act of violence perpetrated by one person against another creates two new victims. This is a powerful story about ethics and duty. Elisha, the narrator is a holocaust survivor now fighting against the British for an Israeli state. He learns that he has been chosen to execute a British Army Captain in retaliation to the execution of a young Israeli fighter.

Elisha struggles with the decision and tries desperately to understand how and why and what he is supposed to do. What is his duty? Are his actions justified? Is he beyond morals?

Towards the end of this short work, Elisha decides he must speak with the man he is to kill. He struggles with the idea of extinguishing a life.

He is forced to consider how this may transform him into an empty shell of his former self leaving him guessing as to who he will become.


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Summary: provocative and entertaining
Review: dawn is an illuminating document about the terrorist phychology during the emancipation of palistine. In a framework of tense melodrama, Wiesel describes the plight of traditional Jewish morality confronted with the modern world of power politics and a murder.

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Summary: Fascinating
Review: Dawn is an incredible novel, indicative of Elie Wiesel's superb writing ability. In a hundered pages, he manages to leave the reader with haunting images, and raise questions on the value of life, what defines right, wrong, and human, and what price we must be willing to pay for something we believe in. Every sentence is exceptional, and full of depth. This was one of the most thought-provoking books I've ever read.

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Summary: Awaiting Dawn
Review: Elie Wiesel is a master storyteller. He has taken his extraordinary experiences and used them time and again to narrate novels that cause readers to question along with him. "Dawn" is a novel in that same vein; Wiesel likes to ponder questions that may never be answered.

"Dawn" tells the story of Elisha, a survivor of the concentration camps, who finds himself drawn to Palestine and to terrorist activity in the name of saving the Jewish people. After everything that has happened to his people throughout history and after WWII, fighting is the only option for these passive people. Elisha has been chosen to serve as executioner to a British officer, kidnapped as retribution for the kidnapping and planned execution of a Jewish rebel. Elisha struggles with what lies ahead of him at dawn - he believes he could kill the British man if he hates him, but he cannot find any hate within himself. In fact, Elisha struggles with the whole purpose of his mission, and the cause for which he is fighting. He cannot imagine himself labeled as a murderer, and is fearful of making those who formed him into murderers as well. He is utterly torn as to what he must do.

Wiesel tells the story through flashbacks, allowing us to see Elisha's previous experiences before coming to Palestine. We learn that he was lucky to survivie the concentration camps, and that luck may have played a hand in the lives of almost all is friends in the terrorist network. Wiesel, as always, ponders serious questions concerning ethics, religion and morality. He makes a poignant case for the Jewish nation, but recognizes that answers may be a long time coming.