Reflection On Night By Elie Wiesel

The book Night by Elie Wiesel is a memoir written to describe the events in Elie’s life that were drastic and important for everyone to learn about. It was 1944 in Germany, all Jews were evacuated to concentration camps where they would be abused and tortured incessantly by Nazi soldiers who were trying to efface all Jews out of Germany. Throughout Elie’s life in these concentration camps, he experienced moments where his humanity, faith, and beliefs were ripped apart. Two moments in Night that were pivotal in Elie’s progression from the boy he was at the beginning to the "corpse" he sees staring back at him in the mirror are when he sees the boy hanging on the gallows and when he realizes he is left alone when his father dies. The first moment in Night that was pivotal in Elie’s progression from the boy he was at the beginning was when he witnesses a negligible young boy being hanged by S.S. officers. One day the power had gone out in the camp. The Gestapo was summoned to investigate the damage and soon found out that it was sabotage. The Gestapo

Again, Elie witnesses the tragic experience of the young boy being hung by the S.S. officers. Which relayed events that are happening to him, since the young boy was so close in age with Elie. Then, watching and acting with his father as he goes through a horrible sickness that leads to an experience that Elie will never forget. The death of his father and seeing the corpse in the mirror. The corpse was Elie, a boy that had been ripped apart, tortured, and mentally distraught. He couldn’t recognize himself, it was to him an image of a stranger, one that had been broken and killed inside. These moments in Elie’s life changed him from being an innocent child to an overexposed young boy. The emotions he had been through are