“From the depths of the mirror, a corps was contemplating me.” - Elie Wiesel
This quote is important because we see how much Elie has changed since he first entered the concentration camp. He has changed so much to the point that he barely recognizes himself, He looks himself in the mirror and doesn’t see the Elie that he once knew because all of the suffering and torture he has been though. Another reason Elie might be seeing a dead body when he looks in a mirror is because that’s all he has been seeing for the past months! People being killed right in front of him and at such a young age it has to have him messed up in some type of way.
Who said the quotation, and to who were they speaking
Elie, he’s talking to himself.
How do the circumstances under which the quotation was said deepen its meaning?
Because we see how much Elie is messed up in the head. He doesn’t have a shot of living a normal life even though he’s not in the concentration camp.
How does the quotation tie into one of the major themes?
The quotation ties in with one of the major themes which is loss. There is so much loss in this book, so many lives were lost due to the senseless killing by the Germans.