Read this text from paragraph 3 of the passage. the very decided manner with which he spoke, and strove to impress his wife with the evil consequences of giving me instruction, served to convince me that he was deeply sensible of the truths he was uttering. it gave me the best assurance that i might rely with the utmost confidence on the results which, he said, would flow from teaching me to read. how does this text develop the central idea of the passage? it shows that mr. auld is a domineering and cruel person, both with his wife and with douglass. it shows that the more mr. auld argued against education, the more douglass became convinced it was the only way for him to gain freedom. it shows the mean-spirited attitude of mr. auld and, by extension, all slaveholders. it shows that mr. auld truly cares about douglass and does not want anything bad to happen to him.

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.