Which details from the text best support the idea that the narrator is cautious in this new setting? Select two options. “They are falling apart into great blocks of stone, and the forest is safer going.”
“There was the great river below, like a giant in the sun. It is very long, very wide.”
“It could eat all the streams we know and still be thirsty. Its name is Ou-dis-sun, the Sacred, the Long.”
“Toward the setting of the eighth sun, I came to the banks of the great river.”
“No man of my tribe had seen it, not even my father, the priest. It was magic and I prayed.”

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.