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As Ray becomes accustomed to life on death row, he grows more and more despondent. In this passage, Ray exposes how dehumanizing Holman is: death row reduces him to a number, robs him of joy, and makes him feel as though he is not alive, even before he is officially executed. His tense is important: saying that he “used to love to laugh” shows how he is now deprived of both laughter and love. Because all of these ideas were integral to his character, he feels that he is losing himself as a person—disappearing into “nothingness,” as he writes.
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