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:
1. What is the significance of Elisha's name?
2. What, if anything, do the different characters in this story represent to members of your group?
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?

How does the story told in Dawn address the following questions(paraphrased from page 132 of Elie Wiesel's Dawn)?
4. Where is God to be found? In suffering or rebellion?
5. When is a person most truly human, when one submits or when one refuses?
6. Where does suffering lead? To purification or to bestiality?