Elie Wiesel’s purpose for ending his memoir by describing what he saw as he looked at himself in the mirror is to reflect on how the horrors of the camps affected Elie. Elie noticed how he was affected throughout the story in ways he noticed and pointed out to the readers, like his teetering faith with God throughout the book. Other times he was faced with a lack of empathy for others, including his own father. Elie Wiesel’s purpose for ending his memoir by describing how he looked at himself in the mirror, reflecting all the horrors of the concentration camps, is to show how terrible they actually were and how Eile changed. Elie shows at the end of the book how the camps changed him negatively by stating ”Free at last” to the death of his