I finally finished reading Night by Elie Wiesel which was a pretty quick read. Night definitely blew my mind. It provided numerous vivid discriptions of events that took place during the Holocaust which came as a shock to me. For example, many people in the Aushwitz concentration camp were homosexual due to the nudity and gender seperation. In addition, the S.S or Nazi soldiers would kill a child without thought only because of their ethnicity. This came as a major shock because how could one human being kill another regardless of who you are. Of course with any book there is always questions.
My questions to Eliezer is what did he mean when he said he felt free after the death of his father? Does he mean he is free of responsibility or drifting into death? What really kept me pondering was the last couple of sentences at the end of the book. "One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me". What does this mean? Was he referring to his late father? Overall, Night was an upsetting and distressing novel that taught me to cherish everything I have because you never know what tomorrow may bring.
Great questions, and post too! I think maybe what he meant at the end was that he hardly recognized who he was anymore. Let's talk more about this ion class.
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