CHAPTER FIVE
1. What does Elisha imagine that the room is filled with?
The dead People
2. What does the beggar tell Elisha about this night?
That it is the night of many faces
3. What does the little boy tell him?
That they are there to watch him become a murder, causing them to become murders
4. Why is it significant that it is the boy who speaks?
Because he is Elisha before the holocaust
5. How did John Dawson react when told he would die?
He smiled, stating that his stomach had already told him
6. Why does Elisha not want to see Dawson eat?
Because he was afraid
7. What problem does Elisha think is worse than fear?
Elisha does not want to laugh because of something John Dawson does
8. In what way does Ilana say that war is like night?
“War is like night, it covers everything”
9. What other observations of war does she make?
“We say that ours is a holy war, struggling against something and for something… Against the English for an independent Palestine.” “These are words, and because of these words, we kill.”
10. After the war ends, what does Elisha think will remain?
That once he became an executioner, he would always be one and always be branded a killer
11. What does he think the silent dead do?
Judge him
12. What does he say the freedom nation is built upon?
He said the freedom of the nation is built upon a foundation of dead bodies.
13. Elisha says he is not a murderer but an idealist. How is this true?
He chooses life instead of death
14. In what way did he, as a youth, try to follow any idealist dream?
While in their youth, Elisha and Yerachmiel tried to purify their souls enough to bring the Messiah to Earth.
15 What do the presences symbolize as far as what makes a man?
They symbolize that a man is made up of many different people that helped him become whom he was.
16. What does the revolver symbolize for Elisha?
It symbolizes Elisha and all of the people that made him who he was, which will turn all of them into murders.
17. Why does he say that in an hour everything will be different?
Because in that hour he will make himself and all of the dead around him murders.
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