Tadeusz Borokowski author of "The Supper" suffered tremendously during his short life, surviving one of the most torturous environments in human history, a Nazi concentration camp.
Foreshadowing is used in this story as Borowski defines the absolute insanity humans will show when deprived of food. The concentration camp was used to get free labor from prisoners while starving them to death. Borowski uses sensory images in the first paragraph, foreshadowing how cold and dark this existence is. He needed his readers to understand what limits man will cross when faced with hopelessness and starvation, coupled with the will to survive.
Cannibalism is performed by the Jews when Soviet soldiers are executed, it is a terribly bleak yet appropriate message written by a man who knew this sort of desperation entirely too well.
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