In the next to last sentence in the book, Eliezer says that when he looks at a mirror after liberation, he sees a corpse gazing back at him. He ends the book by stating, "The look in his eyes,as they stared into mine, has never left me". What does that sentence mean?
When Elie looks in the mirror and sees a corpse staring back at him I think it’s because of what he has been through and what he has seen. A person would change if they have seen as horrific things as Elie. He says the last time that he saw his true self was back at the ghetto. The look that the corpse is giving back to Elie as he looks in the mirror could be a look of sadness and anger. This look is permanent because these feelings will never leave him. The man looking back is still Elie, but he has changed and no longer recognizes himself.
ReplyDeleteWhen Elie has gone through everything he has, he changed. Anyone would. The last look of a dead body staring back at him, the expression of hopelessness and pain will never leave him. When he looks in the mirror he no longer knows himself, he's scarred forever from what he's been through.
ReplyDeleteThis means that when ellie had the chance to himself in the mirrior for the first time in a long time it had looked like he had changed to a whole different person and that his body was so malnourished he looked like a corpse
ReplyDeleteI feel like he is scared of what he became. What has happened to him and his family and friends at the camp. How traumatizing it is because he also lost all that weight and he knows he is not the same person. He just wants things to go back to normal again
ReplyDeleteReflection: During Elie's time in Auschwitz he has gone through fear and torture. Elie finally saw himself as a different person who looks dead but can still see the same hopeless terrified from the very beginning of the arrival at Auschwitz.
ReplyDeleteThe sentence is describing how he felt about himself, the way his condition was and how he will never forget the terrifying experience. His time in Auschwitz was a time that he discovered the strength he had. Looking in the mirror, finally after everything that had happened to him is describing the weakness, death and hard work he went through all those years. It is a way of telling the readers how he felt about himself when he finally got to see who he had become, stronger spiritted, and now free.
ReplyDeleteIn the duration of the book and Elies stay at Auchwitz, Elie has suffered, seen scarring things, and has lost so much. I think when Elie saw himself in the mirror and said he saw his corpse, that’s how he portrayed his life and heart he barely was attached with mentally. He was unrecognizable to himself as he was before he came into the camp. He was staring at his suffering, his weakness he’s kept to himself all this time, and the boy he once was who was considered dead in his eyes, all facing him in that mirror.
ReplyDeleteThis means that as he was dying he was looking at his dead self. He could never forget this moment because he was almost unrecognizable to himself. It be like looking into a mirror and not recognizing yourself like if you were a different person.
ReplyDeleteWhen Ellie looked at himself in the mirror, he saw himself as a dead corpse after all the changes both physically and mentally that happened in Auschwitz. He was a completely different person compared to when he left the ghetto. He is reflecting on seeing himself for the first time after his personal changes and he probably thinks that he himself as a person is dead even though he will continue to live.
ReplyDeletei think elie was done he was ready for all of the horror to be over he wanted his old life back and he was starting it.
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ReplyDeleteHe still remember the horrible time and life he lived through.He can feel the see from his own eyes as his looking in the mirror. He is still not sure that is he still alive or dead as the other he saw. He has gone through fear and hunger this whole time so he is still not able to look at his own body and the eyes that say the little babies thrown in the fire and hundred of people being excavated.
ReplyDelete15. At the end of that book, after liberation from the camp, Elie looks at the mirror at sees a corpse staring at him. He does not recognize himself. He changed. In that small period of time he lost his family, become stronger and fearless. At his age he saw more things and met more challenges in the world than a lot of adults did not. he end a book with a sentence: “The look of his eye that are starred at mine, has never left me” I think Elie was scared of what he saw in the mirror(who is looking at me?), how concentration camp could change person so much?(mostly his soul than beauty.)
ReplyDeleteThis sentence means that when he looks in to the eyes of his own shriveled body the body that was put through this awful experience, he can see everything that happened the people dying, his father dying and all of the abuses he has been put through and when he looks in his eyes he can see all of it and it will never leave him.
ReplyDeleteWhen Elie says that statement he is meaning that the way he looked when he saw himself is unforgettable. He was more than just upset to see the way his body had look like. When he calls himself a corpse he is saying that because of how skinny he looks and feels. He is so skinny you can literally see the shape of his bones. It scares him and also gives him a feeling of sadness. The fact that his body had physically and mentally changed since the last time he looked in the mirror. He was appalled by his appearance.
ReplyDeleteWhen Elie looks at himself he doesn't see the person he knew when we has living in the ghetto. He sees a person who has been through hell and could never be the same. Elie doesn't even look at himself as a living person anymore, its like the walking dead. He knew that he never really left, but he could see himself the way that he used to be. I think he felt like his body was still alive but his spirit was dead. The camp put a huge stresser on his life.
ReplyDeletehe is describing how he isnt the same person and how dead he looks and feels. he says in the book that the last time he knew himself was back at the ghetto. everything he experienced was life changing in a negative way. and when he came out he was affected in a negative way forever.
ReplyDeleteTo me the statement shows how much he has changed and he doesn’t believe it. He can’t believe how much he has changed and how old he looks but how young he is. He went through a lot and he hasn’t seen how he change during the times of not getting food or enough food to eat. In result he has changed a lot and has got a lot smaller. But it’s not all about his physical being. Its about how scared he is of himself, he can’t believe what he has be come .
ReplyDeletethis statement is saying to me that Elie cant believe his eyes. He is looking at a shell of his former self and that image has been stuck in his head ever since that day.
ReplyDeleteI think this means that the things the camp put him through is going to stick with him for the rest of his life and some of the images that he saw will forever be in the back of his mind and he will always remember the traumatic incidents no matter what he does to erase them or think of anything else besides what happened at Auschwitz.
ReplyDelete• Being at camp Elie didn’t know truly what he looked like and I believe that this was the first time he saw himself and he looked like a whole new person. As he looked into his own eyes he didn’t see himself he saw a corpse. The impact of seeing himself look so dead will never go away.
ReplyDeleteI think that Elie had meant that when he looked into the mirror after liberation, he saw a boy who was thin, tired, worn out, almost sickly staring back at him. I think he meant that he saw a boy who was stripped of everything. He had nothing left. He had lost all of his family and now he was a corpse. A corpse meaning he had a dead look in his eyes. I think he said that he will never forget that because it would be hard to forget the way that you look when you look into the mirror after a long time and you see someone that does not even look like you.
ReplyDeleteWhat Elie means by this is that the reflection the he sees in the mirror is not at all the person he remembered a year ago. The last time he looked into the mirror he saw the face a happy, well fed, faithful fifteen year old boy starring back at him. Now all he sees is the face of loss, of despair, and of wanting but never having.
ReplyDeletewhat i think this sentence is saying is that he didnt notice him self or who he was anymore. he lost all thought of who he used to be .
ReplyDeletei think what it means is that when Elie saw himself in the mirror, he didn't recognize himself because he was skinny and weak. The last time he saw himself was at the ghetto. And from that time he saw a lot and had been through a lot. So he really changed in his actions and his appearance.
ReplyDeletei think what he meant was that he didn't recognize him self because he had change so much through the concentration camp he sees that he has grown up so much but when he looks back when he first arrived at the concentration camp he was a kid and was well feed and not like a skeleton,he has become a man now but he still realizes that inside of him,he's still that boy just more developed.
ReplyDeleteI think that he is talking about when he looks in the mirror. He still sees himself from when he was at the camp. His eyes had seen so much but he had overcome it all and gotten out. The eyes that never left his head were his own eyes reminding him what he had been through.
ReplyDelete; The Meaning is He always thinks about the guys eyes, possibly in dreams. Seeing all the death makes him venerable. He sees the dead bodys eyes it sticks with him for life. He might have knew the man.
ReplyDeleteWhat Elie is talking about is that this is how he sees him self every time that he remembers that horrible place. That is why the vision haunts him because he is seeing himself from the place that will haunt him forever.
ReplyDeleteHe means that after all he has been through mentally and physically he can hardly recognize himself and the horror and trauma he experienced will never leave him.
ReplyDeleteElie means that he is shocked at what he looks like, what those Nazis did to him. He never really understood the insanity of the concentration camps until he saw himself.
ReplyDeletei think that the sentence means that he would only be able to see himself as who he was in Auschwitz and the struggle that he went through would follow him throughout his life.
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The sentence states how he has changed over the time since being in the ghetto. The part saying the look in his eyes has never left me is him saying he will never forget the horrific and terrifying things that happened while he was held captive by the Nazis that was showing through his eyes.
ReplyDeleteIt means that Elie had changed physically and mentally because of what he had been through. His body was so malnourished he looked like a corpse. Furthermore, the look of corpse as he stared at Elie could be a look of sadness and anger and these feelings have never leave him. The corpse looking back was still Elie, but he no longer sees himself as the same person he used to be.
ReplyDeleteI think that Elie means that because he has spent a lot of his life working in Auschwitz he didn't recognize himself. He has spent a lot of his life working, getting weaker every day that passed by and getting skinnier. Elie changed so much in Auschwitz that he didn't know who he was anymore. He saw someone totally different.
ReplyDeleteThis was the first time Elie got a chance to look at his own reflection since he was back at the safety of his home. So much has changed in the past months. He has seen things that no one should ever have to experience in their whole life. He's been broken mentally and physically. His whole body has been beaten, the only thing that stays the same with him are his distant eyes.
ReplyDeleteElie mentioned when he looked at the mirror after he became free he saw the face of a corpse which never goes away. I think he meant he was so shocked to see himself broken emotionally and physically and hurt going through the harsh punishments and starving moments. It might stay in his minds because it was incomparably different from the last time when he saw himself before he went to the camp.
ReplyDeleteWhen Elie looks in the mirror and sees a corpse staring back at him I think it’s because its reminding him of what he has been through. I think its showing how heart broken, how Mentally and physically broken he was at the camp. the dead corpses remindes him of the camp and the people he has seen die right in front of his eyes. how the terrible things the Nazis did just to get what they want. it reminds him of his family and friends who died along with the millions that died.
ReplyDeletehe saying that the old him died hes a new person not a good one in particular and has changed while being at Auschwitz and that he lost a lot of weight.
ReplyDeleteI think that what he was saying is that it had been so long since he had seen himself in a mirror and the toll that Aushwitz took on his body made the person in the mirror look like a stranger
ReplyDeleteI think that when ellie was saying this it meant that all of the terrible conditions of Auschwitz and him being deprived of food had caused him to become a total stranger to his own eyes. He didnt recognize himself and he could see all the terrible things that he had seen in the mirror.
ReplyDeleteI believe that he saw the remains of a innocent child and when he looked into his eyes he saw a battered sole that was much older and much wiser and full of so much pain that it was to horrific to forget. he is saying that he will have to live with this forever but never really live.
ReplyDeleteElie was mentally scared from the whole event. All of the death that he witnessed almost became a part of him. For all of the death in the camp Elie was lucky to make it out alive. The sentence does not explain the look on the face but I can infer that it might have been a corpse representing the many that died among him. It could also just have been a flashback or remembrance of the death at Auschwitz for him.
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