What differences became matters of life and death during the holocaust?

• do differences between people necessarily lead to conflict?

• how can the holocaust us find similarities that go beyond race, culture, nationality, and so on?

• why is it important to remember what was done in the name of difference and similarity during the holocaust?

• what reasons might people have to forget such issues? what reasons might they have to remember?

Which sentences from part 1 of the call of the wild would best serve as evidence of the theme "sometimes survival depends on knowing when not to fight"? buck had accepted the rope with quiet dignity. to be sure, it was an unwonted performance: but he had learned to trust in men he knew, and to give them credit for a wisdom that outreached his own. he had merely intimated his displeasure, in his pride believing that to intimate was to command. but to his surprise the rope tightened around his neck, shutting off his breath. he saw, once for all, that he stood no chance against a man with a club. he had learned the lesson, and in all his after life he never forgot it. that had given them an unfair advantage; but now that it was off, he would show them. they would never get another rope around his neck.