Elie Wiesel's inheritance is a knife and a spoon that his father leaves to him when he dies. His father tries to give it to him a few times when his name is called during selection, but Elie does not take until the very end. This shows that the fortunes of the Wiesel family have drastically changed since chapter 1 when the family buried their most prized possessions to keep them out of the hands of the German soldiers. This was true for many Jews at the end of WWII. Their homes had been raided and all of their possessions taken. Many Jews had nowhere to go and no money after they were liberated from the concentration camps.
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Answer:
His actions led to a competition between the two cities to have the most overpowering wall, and to the weakening of their populations.
Explanation:
The Mandarin not only establishes the main conflict by claiming that the city of Kwan-Si building a wall in the shape of a pig would be a threat to their orange shaped city; he also decided to ask for advice and follow the call of the whisper to shape their wall as a stick that could hurt the pig.
