Read the following excerpt from Narrative of Sojourner Truth. What type of external conflict does it describe?

With these noble people who, though they could not be the masters of slaves, were undoubtedly a portion of God's nobility, she resided one year, and from them she derived the name of Van Wagener; he being her last master in the eye of the law, and a slave's surname is ever the same as his master; that is, if he is allowed to have any other name than Tom, Jack, or Guffin. Slaves have sometimes been severely punished for adding their master's name to their own.

A.
person versus person
B.
person versus nature
C.
person versus society
D.
person versus self

This is true going by the statement that most slaves tends to be punished because they added their slave masters name to their own name without obtaining permission.

To the society, the expect that there should be a distinction between the slaves and their slave owners. One of the ways to ensure that, is through the names which each of them bears.

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jayilych4real jayilych4real · Answer 2 · 2022-01-07T13:04:49+01:00

The type of external conflict which the given excerpt describes is:

C. Person versus society

An external conflict has to do with the disagreements which an author has about his immediate surroundings or with another character where he does not have peace with that person or thing.

With this in mind, we can see that the external conflict which exists in the given excerpt is the person vs society conflict as slaves got punished because of adding their masters names without permission.

Therefore, the correct answer is option C

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