In the novel Dawn, Elie Wiesel pens a fictional story about a young man named Elisha who mentally struggles with looming execution of John Dawson. As the execution will be taking place very soon, Elisha starts to notice that he is standing in a room filled with familiar and unfamiliar which at some point in his life he had crossed paths with. In this sea of faces were his parents, the beggar, his grizzled master and a young boy that bear a resemblance of his younger self before the holocaust. It was made very clear that they were all there to witness this execution, to see Elisha become a murderer.
Every passing minute seemed like an eternity and tries to explain to the sea of faces the reasoning of the execution. Wiesel himself writes, “When