The theme of night is with the love for a loved one can give you the motivation and the strength to do anything. It was freezing cold after being on the train for weeks and he and his farther was the 12 out of the 100 of prisons …show more content…
"One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me." When the narrator says this he uses his as if it was someone else but its really his reflection from the mirror. He uses his because he didn’t realize the person he saw in the mirror. Than he says "the gaze in his eye" never left. This came from the Nazis turning the Jews into animals. It was in the middle of winter, and the Auschwitz camp was evacuating to another camp. The had to run for miles in the snow to a train were a 100 prisoners had to all fit into all in one train cart. They were in the train for weeks with out food. Elie was one of these 100 people in the train and he say, "'Meir, my little Meir! Don’t you recognize me... you're killing your father … I have bread... for you too.. for you too'" Pg. 101. In this quote shows how this event change them so much that they are killing there own love ones just to have a crust of bread. This also shows how the Nazis have turn this human beings into vicious animals that killing for the smallest part of a crust of bread. And things like these will never leave from someone's brain no matter how hard they try to get ride of that imaging. This was part of the gaze that he say in his eye when he look himself in the