The minister officiates at both a funeral and a wedding on the day he first appears with the veil. We would expect the veil to be inappropriate to the joy of a wedding, but it seems equally disturbing at the funeral. Why might one woman imagine, during the procession to the graveyard, that the minister walks ‘hand in hand’ with the dead girl’s spirit? In what sense does he now seem dead to others?

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.