CHAPTER SIX
1. What is ironic about the meaning of Elisha's name?
It was the name of a prophet that restored life and Elisha is taking it
2. What does Elisha think the next day will bring him?
He thinks his body will be weighed down by his life and Dawson’s death
3. Why does John Dawson understand Elisha better than any human being?
There is a special bond between them because Elisha will be the last living soul Dawson will see.
4. What two burning sensations does Elisha feel?
The pistol in his pocket and every sentence John Dawson spoke were the two burning sensations that Elisha felt.
5. Whom does Elisha picture when he tries to picture David Ben Moshe?
John Dawson, he is the only man he knows and has seen that is condemned to death.
6. What experiences did Dawson's artistic hands make Elisha think of?
He thought of the story Stephan told him, where Stephan’s five fingers were cut off in a duration of five days by a surgeon who had an artist’s hands.
7. Is he right in saying, "Now our only chance lies in hating you, in learning the
necessity and art of hate"?
I think he is right because hating him is the only way Elisha will be able to cope with killing the man.
8. What is the meaning of, "I've killed Elisha"?
The Elisha that he was at the beginning of the novella was gone because that person became a different Elisha, a murder.
9. What does he hear his mother say to him?
He hears him say “poor boy, poor boy”
10. Explain the last line of the novel.
He had killed his old self when he killed John Dawson. Before he only saw dead people’s reflections in the windows, so that symbolizes that he is dead.
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