Read this passage.
in this excerpt, eliezer is in a roofless train car following the deadly forced march out of buna. near him a son has beaten his father to death over a piece of bread, and now the son is being attacked.
excerpt from night by elie wiesel
others joined in. when they withdrew, next to me were two corpses, side by side, the father and the son. i was fifteen years old.
which statement best describes the effect of wiesel’s choice to reveal eliezer's age at the end of the excerpt?
eliezer’s youth is emphasized throughout night, so the statement acts as a reinforcement of just how young eliezer is.
eliezer’s age acts as a signpost for readers, showing exactly how many months have passed since eliezer was deported from the ghetto.
the statement shocks readers, who may have forgotten just how young eliezer was when experiencing the horrors of the concentration camps.
the dead son is close in age to eliezer, so the statement makes readers sympathize with the dead son.