Significant Passage from Night

The passage that we found significant to the theme and setting of the story was "Night fell. Some twenty people had gathered in our courtyard. My father was sharing some anecdotes and holding forth on his opinion of the situation. He was a good storyteller. Suddenly, the gate opened, and Stern, a former shopkeeper who now was a policeman,entered and took my father aside. (......)  The story he had interrupted would remain unfinished." (Wiesel, 12)

It connects to the setting by illustrating a dark imagine of how many lives were being interrupted as reality of world war 2 slowly become a real part of their lives. It also connects to the theme of the story by relating the unfinished stories to the lifes of millions of Jews that Hitler killed. The theme of the story is the dark life that the author went through which easily could of ended.