Chapter 2 Of Night By Elie Wiesel

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Wiesel uses this passage from chapter 2 of his memoir, Night, to tell readers that he had gotten to a point where nothing mattered to him anymore and that he had turned himself off emotionally. We know this because he described his and the other prisoners' brains as incapable of thinking, while also mentioning that their senses were numb. This indicates that Wiesel and the other prisoners were so stunned by what they had seen in the concentration camp, Auschwitz, that they could no longer process the inhumanity of the world they were in. Their senses were numb after witnessing the inhumanity that was displayed in front of them. They had come to terms with the fact that they might die here. Wiesel uses the idiom, fading into fog to describe

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