Prompt-Think of a problem that a character had to face. Write the problem and how the
character solved it or is working to solve it. If you were that character, what would you do differently?
In 'Dawn', Elisha is given the task of killing John Dawson simply because he is an English man. This is the main conflict that Elisha faces. Elisha morally feels as if it is wrong and is conflicted about whether to kill John Dawson or to follow his own feelings and let him go free. Elisha also has the fear that he will physically not be able to kill the man. In the end Elisha overcomes the feelings he has about Dawson and shoots him.
If I were Elisha I would not have shot John Dawson. Within the novel Elisha says that he doesn't have a personal reason for killing him. At one point Elisha tells Dawson that he is trying to make himself hate him to justify his murder. I would have followed my own feelings and not have killed him because there was no justifiable reason to.
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