Description
In the short novel Dawn (1961), a young man who has survived the Second World War and settled in Palestine is apprenticed to a Jewish terrorist gang. Command to execute a British officer who has been taken hostage, the former victim becomes an executioner.
In The Accident, (1962), Wiesel again turns to fiction to question the limits of the spirit and the self: Can Holocaust survivors forge a new life without the memories of the old? As the creator writes in his introduction, “In Night it is the ‘I’ who speaks; within the other two [narratives], it’s the ‘I’ who listens and questions.”
Wiesel’s trilogy offers meditations on mankind’s attraction to violence and on temptation of self-destruction.
A Hill & Wang Teacher’s Guide is to be had for this title.