Dawn: 1 (Lilith's Brood)

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Johns, Adam. "Octavia Butler and the Art of Pseudoscience." English Language Notes 47. 2 Fall/Winter 2009.Lilith es una mujer de 26 años, elegida por los "oankali" para dirigir a los humanos en su proceso recolonizador del planeta y de convencerlos de la conveniencia de ceder al comercio genético con sus captores/salvadores, debido a las características que han detectado en ella de liderazgo, resistencia, inteligencia y de adaptación al cambio.

Sono 80 paginette scarse, e scarne, che però pesano come secoli e millenni, anche se il racconto è racchiuso nel giro di pochi anni (il protagonista ne ha diciotto). Che bel nome, Palestina… Peccato che adesso si chiami Striscia di Gaza o Territori o Cisgiordania o West Bank o … ma non Palestina. The next symbol is Elisha's name, which alludes to the prophet Elisha, mentioned in the Old Testament's Book of Kings. Lastly, dawn is a symbol which represents death. Dawn is generally the time that the Jews and hostages get executed, so throughout the book, the repetition of Elisha mentioning dawn refers to the death of Jews and hostages. Just before dawn, the ghosts troop silently into the cell to witness the killing. Moments before the execution, Dawson suddenly smiles, saying he just realized that he doesn’t know why he’s dying. He wants to tell Elisha another story. However, Elisha tells him not to smile, raises his revolver, and fires. As Dawson dies, the name “Elisha” is on his lips. Elisha watches as the ghosts accompany Dawson’s spirit from the room, the little boy at Dawson’s side and Elisha’s mother sadly repeating, “Poor boy!”Elie Wiesel was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. Dawn is a novel by Elie Wiesel, published in 1961. It is the second in a trilogy (Night, Dawn, and Day) describing Wiesel's experiences or thoughts during and after the Holocaust. What an unsettling little book! I stayed up late last night to finish it and I awoke this morning with it still on my mind (and I think I dreamed about it too). Octavia Butler is skilled at making me re-examine my beliefs about humanity.