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what symbolic importance could the knife and spoon have elie's father?

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Eliezer's father runs up terrified, saying that his number has been called, and he gives Eliezer a knife and a spoon as parting gifts. These gifts are important because they are all his father has left to give. They are Elie's inheritance.