Elie Wiesel’s novel, Night, is a memoir that describes the horrific experiences of both Elie and other Jews. Elie’s journey is largely about a loss of innocence, faith, and family. Elie Wiesel’s purpose in ending his memoir by describing what he saw as he looked at himself in the mirror was to demonstrate how he was emotionally dead from his experiences. To begin with, Wiesel’s emotional death was created by the dehumanization he and other Jews experienced. Perhaps, the scene that most reveals the dehumanization of Wiesel and his fellow Jews was a scene where a starved man kills his father for a piece of bread. Elie describes the horrific scene as follows “ Meir, my little Meir! Don't you recognize m e … You're killing your father … I have bread … for you too … “ He collapsed. But his fist was still clutching a small crust. He wanted to raise it to his mouth. But the other threw himself on him. The old man mumbled …show more content…
For instance Elie describes this scene as the treacherous journey from Buna to Buchenwald really put a lot of strain on his father's body, mind and spirit. Elie feels tremendous guilt for wishing for his father's death so he can take care of himself. He is ashamed of himself for thinking about his father as a burden. Elie is able to refocus during these times of frustration, and he continues to care for his father until his last days, “I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears. And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!...” Furthermore Elie tells us that he wants to feel remorse for his fathers death but in the long run there is no remorse because after him depending on his father taught him that when it gets rough you tend to have an emotional detachment, and this led to Elie having an emotional