He became enraged at his father because his father started to give up when they were about to get in the showers. He feels like he is equal to the Rabbi's son because a part of him wanted to abandon his father. Wiesel is given the advice that he should be taking his father's rations instead of giving him some of his.
The Bronze Age invention that is shown here is A) ziggurat. A ziggurat used to be a religious institutions, something similar to a temple.
It is called judicial review "Marbury v. Madison"
