an atrocious evil. He had lost his faith in God and his faith in man. After seeing what Eliezer saw without hope and faith, he would have been better off dead. His survival was a stroke of luck. At the end, Eliezer looked at himself in the mirror and saw a corpse. While looking at the mirror, he stated, “The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.” Eliezer thought of himself as another person after the Holocaust. He felt that he had changed from an innocent boy to the lifeless corpse he saw in the mirror. However, when he looked back he realized that he was no longer that corpse who was liberated from Buchenwald. He will forever remember the look of the corpse’s eyes, but he will keep himself separate from that corpse. Only by remembering can the survivors of the Holocaust ensure that this horrible event will never happen again. Night ended with the questions about God and man’s capacity of evil, but with no answers. The responsibility is left to the reader. ...
