Conversations In Elie Wiesel's 'Night'

Similarly, it expects me to believe that our Bruno could have conversations with a Jewish friend at Auschwitz almost daily for close to a year without even having an indistinct idea of what is going on in the camp. I would like to think that after over 300 conversations with his friend, who is obviously hungry and filthy, even a self-centered boy like Bruno would realize that the camp is an unpleasant place where people starve, work and die, no? After all that time, how could he not understand that the camp guards aren't very nice people? I refuse to believe that a 9-year-old boy, who may not be the most effective observer, is incapable of assuming how horrible this camp is. Even compared to today, where we are constantly exposed to this type