In Section 9, Elie has lost his father. He remains in Buchenwald and thinks of nothing but food. Elie is finally liberated, and the memoir ends when Elie, no longer the young boy from Sighet but a person transformed by the Holocaust, looks in a mirror. A corpse stares back at him.
Weisel does not share details of his life after the Holocaust with the reader, even though we know he went on to live a full life of service to other people. Instead, he ends his memoir with the image of his own "corpse" looking back at him in the mirror. Because of this, is Night a story of hope and survival? Or, rather, does it convey a message of hopelessness and evil? Justify your answer using details from the text.
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Weisel does not share details of his life after the Holocaust with the reader, even though we know he went on to live a full life of service to other people. Instead, he ends his memoir with the image of his own "corpse" looking back at him in the mirror. Because of this, is Night a story of hope and survival? Or, rather, does it convey a message of hopelessness and evil? Justify your answer using details from the text.
POST BY MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2013.