Mr. Frank says this line when they are all fighting.
He is saying that they don't need the Nazis to destroy them. They are destroying themselves by fighting. In this scene, they were fighting over food, which was certainly important -- however, Mr. Frank is saying that the good of all must be considered before individual needs.
Mr. Frank is saying that in order to survive, some sacrifice must be made, and the fighting must be stopped.
Answer:
What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being!
There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a nght to impose a private will upon a fellow creature.
Explanation:
The two excerpts above impose a sense of knowledge, power and freedom. This is because we can see that the above excerpt shows a narrator free to act, feel and think according to his own conception and his own principles, using his own opinions. This ability is achieved when an individual is able to free himself from an interminably limiting and weighting oppression.
I would say that all scenarios that are not too complex could be a basis for a short story, but also in principle, you could shorten and simplify any story to make a short story out of it!
So there is no clear distinction.
But among the options, the better candidates are:
a championship basketball game in which a new player is the star
a family mix-up over selecting a birthday present for Dad
the mysterious disappearance of a cake from the pantry
The other options are potentially too complex.
John should make sure he trains the workers better, including how to fix the machine.
