I do agree with you Abby about Elisha constantly talking about the night and how he is afraid of it. You are probably correct by saying that he is afraid of the dark because that is when he has to murder someone. But I would think that since he has grown up to be a terrorist ever since Gad has taken him to be his own, he would have been used to killing people already; as if it was second-nature to her. As I said in my first Dawn post, the beggar and Gad would constantly tell him to not be afraid of the dark, for it was just like day only with more meaning towards thoughts and moods. So I don’t think he is scared only because of killing people because of him alone; but mainly afraid of innocent citizens dying because of him and his group of terrorists as well.
Throughout the reading, I have noticed how it didn’t matter to Elisha to where he was to be placed in the world after the concentration camps; all that mattered to him was to study the knowledge of Philosophy and of God. He was even offered to go back to his homeland, but for some reason he didn’t want to go. If it was me and if I were to be sent back home, I would definitely take it. I think he didn’t want to go back because he felt lost and didn’t think he belonged anywhere else but the place he was already in. He was there for so long that he felt he needed to start life all over again once he got out. Do you think so too, Abby? Or does my statement not make much sense?
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