Elie Wiesel concluded his memoir, Night, by describing his feelings when he sees himself in the mirror for the first time since he left the ghetto. The purpose of this is to portray the state his body and mind is in. Elie describes himself as a corpse because his humanity had been stolen from him after so many years of suffering. Elie also was at the brink of starvation and death, which would have contributed to his corpse-like appearance. Elie went nearly an entire week without eating, and this is detrimental to his body. Elie states “Hunger was tormenting us; we had not eaten for nearly six days” (Wiesel). This quote explains that Elie and the others did not eat for almost 6 days, and it also explains the suffering they were going through