About this title: Two men wait through the night in British-controlled Palestine for dawn. One is a captured English officer. The other is Elisha, a young Israeli freedom fighter whose assignment is to kill the officer in reprisal for Britain's execution of a Jewish prisoner.
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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Bantam, New York
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780553225365ISBN:0553225367
Description: Good. Former school copy--name of school written in marker on outer pages (when book is closed). General signs of wear, including half-inch tear at bottom of spine. 102 p. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780553225365ISBN:0553225367
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. mmpb, rtop, minor shelf/edge wear, Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 112 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Fair. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: SOME ] [ Torn pages: NO ] [ Broken Seams: NO ] Writing on inside cover only Publisher: Bantam Pub Date: 9/1/1982 Binding: Mass Market Paperback Pages: 112[ Water Damage: SLIGHT, doesn't affect use ] read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bantam
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780553225365ISBN:0553225367
Description: Very Good. 0553225367. Minor edge wear. Two men wait to look on the face of death. One is a British hostage, the other a survivor of the Nazi camps. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam
Date Published: 1982-09-01
ISBN-13:9780553225365ISBN:0553225367
Description: Good. Binding is tight and square. No names, no remainder marks, no stickers. Text is clean and bright. Corner of cover clipped. Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend PRIORITY MAIL for even faster delivery! read more
"So much anguish in this book..... Wiesel makes us look at what happens to the person who becomes as his torturers. The author says in the preface, "This tale about despair becomes a story against despair." In that light, it seems to fall short of actually giving hope, which is an opposite of despair, or of offering redemption; the life of Elisha, the main character, does not offer us an example of hope. The book does force the reader to personalize war/killing and grapple with the ethics of doing a wrong for the sake of right/the greater good. Maybe I don't "get it", but I think if the author wants to show us that more death & hatred is not the answer to the evil that exists, he could give us an alternative, or hope of one at the least. The writing itself is absorbing, and keeps the reader in angst right to the end."
"This book is the second book in the night trilogy. It takes place right after the holocost had ended and the jews were freed. Everything is going back to normal. then all of a sudden two prisoners are sentenced to death. Also elisha is the one that is sopposed to kill them. For the next few days he struggles between right and wrong.
Sometimes i have to make difficult choices. If I had to kill a man i would be freaked out.
The reason I would give this book a 3 is because it was kind of boring. I that the thing that this book showed how you must sometimes sacrifice yourself."
"I read Night 15 years ago (yow that was awhile ago) in high school and had high expectations for Dawn even though I recalled it got disparaging remarks from instructors now that I think about it. Now I know why. Solid writing but seriously the dead come out to talk to the main character??? It's not a fantasy so why this great talk with the dead? If only life were that simple, to talk to the dead. I'd have a few words to say to my dead that's for sure. Still some beautiful lines from the beginning of the book, it just turns in directions I really wasn't thrilled about.
"Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving dreaming. At night everything is more intense and more true.... the tragedy of man is that he doesn't know how to distinguish between day and night. He says things at night that should only be said by day."
I wanted to love it, expected to love it. I am reluctant to read _The Accident_ (the middle book in this set of three books) now."
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