Epiphany In Night By Elie Wiesel

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While reading the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, I found the main character, Elie having an epiphany on page 115 of the book. Here, Elie finds himself finally free from the Nazis and the concentration camp, looking at himself in the mirror for the first time since the ghetto. Elie said, “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.” Although the narrator does not come out and directly state it, I believe it is at this moment that he truly understands what he has been subjected to and endured. By the end of his memoir, Elie Wiesel is a completely different person as most people who go through traumatic events do not remain the same. He is no longer the boy we saw in the