Usually, every story has a powerful ending that will keep the reader amazed, most likely in a good way, leaving them satisfied with the ending. The night doesn't follow the pattern. Elie didn't want to end a sad story in a happy way, he wanted to end it the way it actually happened. It ends with the metaphor that will send a shiver down the reader's spine. The story ends: “One day, when I could get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I hadn't seen myself since the ghetto. From the bottom of the mirror a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he looked at me has never left me. By ending the story in this way, the reader finally realizes the horrific consequences of the Holocaust and the effects it had on the Jewish people. Due to abandonment, malnutrition and beatings, people had lost the meaning of life and had turned into walking corpses, separated from themselves. Many people were no longer even recognizable after the Holocaust, even to their own family members. The concentration camps slowly stripped away the past identities of their prisoners, transforming them into new people. People who saw and physically felt the evils of the Nazis. Elie felt that the fear of death was always around the corner, so he turned him into a corpse from his past life. It changed everyone's life. Elie Wiesel states: “Time: after the war. The location: Paris. A young man struggles to readjust to life. His mother, his father, his little sister are gone. He's alone. On the brink of despair. Yet he doesn't give up. Instead, he strives to find a place among the living. Acquires a new language. He makes some friends who, like him, believe that the memory of evil will serve as a shield against evil...... himself. ways: physical, emotional and spiritual. The Holocaust had transformed him into a completely different person. The life had left his body and he had become a walking corpse. Elie entered the camp as a Jew, but by the time he emerged, his views on religion had changed significantly. His previous self would have been disgusted by the destroyed version of himself. In Auschwitz he performed actions that he would never have even considered in the ghetto, things that destroyed his body, transforming it into the superficial corpse he observed in the mirror. Elie did not have access to mirrors in the camp or at any time after leaving the Sighet ghetto. He experienced tragedy without even knowing what he looked like during all of it. At the end of Elie's tragic experience, he looked at himself, seeing only a dying version of himself.