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When elder wiesel hastily gives his son a knife and spoon what two words does elie wiesel use in his narration to desribe these items?

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Elie calls them "the inheritance".

In the translation by Marion Wiesel he says, "My inheritance" (Wiesel 75). He might be comparing that to what other people get from their fathers as an inherientace. It could be sarcastically or it could show him realizing that his father is going to die.