Hurry me

read the excerpt from an adaptation of "to build a fire.”

the thought of it drove him on again, but he ran no more than a hundred feet before staggering and pitching headlong. it was his last panic. it occurred to him that he had been making a fool of himself, running around like a chicken with its head cut off. he was bound to freeze anyway, and he might as well take it decently and meet death with dignity. with this new-found peace of mind came the first glimmerings of drowsiness. a good idea, he thought, to sleep off to death. freezing was not so bad as people thought. there were lots worse ways to die.

how does the setting create conflict in this excerpt?

the trail is too slippery for the man to navigate.

the darkness of the night forces the man to desire sleep.

the extreme cold is more than the man can endure.

the loneliness of the trail makes the man lose his sanity.

Read the excerpt from elie wiesel’s all rivers run to the sea. why were those trains allowed to roll unhindered into poland? why were the tracks leading to birkenau never bombed? i have put these questions to american presidents and generals and to high-ranking soviet officers. since moscow and washington knew what the killers were doing in the death camps, why was nothing done at least to slow down their “production”? that not a single allied military aircraft ever tried to destroy the rail lines converging on auschwitz remains an outrageous enigma to me. birkenau was “processing” ten thousand jews a day. stopping a single convoy for a single night—or even for just a few hours—would have prolonged so many lives. based on the paragraph, the author would most likely agree that it is best to avoid confrontation at all costs. people need to be proactive when they witness an injustice. countries should remain neutral to keep alliances strong. moscow and washington are to be blamed for the holocaust.