Symbolism In Night By Elie Wiesel

After he is liberated, the trauma and distress Elie Wiesel experiences as a prisoner in the concentration camps causes him to suffer from Holocaust Survivors Syndrome. First, Elie views his survival as luck. After seeing himself in a mirror for the first time in over a year, Elie writes, “From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me” (Wiesel 115). The imagery of a corpse suggests that to Elie, his life barely continues. His comment suggests he might as well be dead after his experiences. Thus, Elie believes he survives only from coincidence. In addition, Elie suffers from Holocaust Survivors Syndrome because of the lingering thoughts haunting him. The final line of the book reads, “The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has