Danger, apathy, endurance, detachment

which theme can you create using all the key ideas above?
a- in hazardous situations, the instinct to survive overcomes everything else.
b when danger looms, people usually fight back with great force.
c although a people might become detached from reality, they can still love.
d caring about other people is impossible when faced with terrible situations.

Write a précis of "from 'on the duty of civil disobedience'" paragraph 1 by henry david thoreau.

London includes a quote about john thornton as he is observing hal attempt to motivate the exhausted dogs "it was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly". if the word "idle" is defined as "of no real worth, importance, or significance", what does this statement mean with regard to hal? who is the fool? what is hal's folly? why would john thornton think it of no real worth or useless to intervene?

Give example of metaphors and similes