What are three reasons why Ms. Schachter is a mad woman?

Mrs.
Sch¤chter is traveling with her ten-year-old son on the train to Auschwitz in s memoir
. On the third day of the journey, she begins screaming that she sees a
fire outside of the train, but no one else sees it. She yells, "Fire! I see a fire! I see a
fire!" Her commotion terrifies the rest of the people on the train because they do not know
what waits for them, but they just brush her off as crazy.

Mrs. Sch¤chter
has reasons to be mad, or, as Wiesel describes her, as if she were possessed by some evil
spirit (25). Unlike the rest of the train, she knows what is coming at the end of the train
ride. First, she has been separated from her husband and two older sons. Wiesel tells us that
the separation had totally shattered her (24). Second, she knows about the furnaces at the
concentration camps and what will most likely happen to the people on the train. Third, as she
screams inconsolably, the people on the train bind and gag her and then eventually beat her to
quiet her down.

The people on the train learn too late that she wasnt just a
madwoman; instead, she was warning them of what was to come.