Read the passage from "Two Kinds.”

In spite of these warning signs, I wasn't worried. Our family had no piano and we couldn't afford to buy one, let alone reams of sheet music and piano lessons. So I could be generous in my comments when my mother bad-mouthed the little girl on TV.

"Play note right, but doesn't sound good! No singing sound," complained my mother.

"What are you picking on her for?" I said carelessly. "She's pretty good. Maybe she's not the best, but she's trying hard." I knew almost immediately I would be sorry I said that.

"Just like you," she said. "Not the best. Because you not trying." She gave a little huff as she let go of the sound dial and sat down on the sofa.

The little Chinese girl sat down also to play an encore of "Anitra's Dance" by Grieg. I remember the song, because later on I had to learn how to play it.

What conflict occurs in the passage?

an internal conflict within the mother, who wishes she could buy more things for her family
an internal conflict within the narrator, who wants to perform better than the little girl on the talent show
an external conflict between the narrator and her mother over whether the girl on television is playing well
an external conflict between the narrator, who wants to play piano, and her mother, who cannot afford to buy one

June and her mother Suyuan come into external conflict when Suyuan criticizes the girl playing the piano on TV. June then regrets replying “What are you picking on her for?”, “She’s pretty good”, “Maybe she’s not the best but she’s trying hard.” Suyuan eventually forced June to take piano lessons, but when it came time for June to perform in a recital, she failed miserably. Her conflict with her mother went unresolved for years.

mcarc09 mcarc09 · Answer 2 · 2022-05-04T11:14:36+02:00

The conflict in the passage from "Two Kinds" is an external conflict between the narrator and her mother over whether the girl on television is playing well.

What is external conflict?

First, we must understand that a conflict is nothing more than a struggle. It takes place between two forces that go against each, be it in a literal or figurative way. An external conflict is a struggle between a character, on the one side, and something outside of that character, on the other.

Examples of external conflict are:

Character vs. another character

Character vs. society

Character vs. nature

In the excerpt from "Two Kinds" we are analyzing here, we have an external conflict between the narrator and her mother, who argue about the piano skills of the girl on TV.

With the information above in mind, we can select option C as the correct answer.

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