Group Work on Dawn
Note: If you were not in class for this group exercise, please complete it as a written exercise and turn it in as
soon as you can.
- After dividing into small groups, let each group discuss the following:
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1. What is the significance of Elisha's name?
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2. What, if anything, do the different characters in this story represent to members of your group?
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3. If this story were an answer, what would the question be? &/or What
situation(s) in our world does this story illuminate or call into question?
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- How does the story told in Dawn address the following questions(paraphrased
from page 132 of Elie Wiesel's Dawn)?
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4. Where is God to be found? In suffering or rebellion?
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5. When is a person most truly human, when one submits or when one refuses?
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6. Where does suffering lead? To purification or to bestiality?
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