Character Analysis Of Elisha In Elie Wiesel's Dawn

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In the book Dawn by Elie Wiesel, Elisha is in a fight or flight situation. He is to kill a man by the name of John Dawson at dawn, who is known to be his “enemy”. Elisha has been seeing faces through a window, in which one of those faces was his father. The rest are faces he saw were people who had passed away as well, but he didn’t know who they were. The only thing he was able to do was capture their tearful faces and torn apart emotions. Elisha is living in a darkness where the death of John Dawson keeps haunting him. Since Elisha is to feel hate against John Dawson in order for his death to be considered a

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