Characters from Dawn

Character Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major characters in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Characters

Elisha - This character is an eighteen-year-old young man, going on nineteen. He spends several years at Buchenwald before being freed by Americans. They offer to send him back home but he refuses.

Gad - This character recruits another into the Movement and brings him to Palestine from Paris.

The Old Man - The leader of the Movement, this character appears in a mask when he addresses a large audience, and his voice is soft, timid, and romantic.

Captain John Dawson - This character is the unlucky person kidnapped by the Movement when...
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