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Which two scenarios are examples of internal conflict?
Rosa must submit her book report on Monday. By Sunday afternoon, however, she has completed
only half of her report. She can hear her teacher's voice inside her head telling her to finish it, but she
really wants to go shopping with her friends instead. Rosa cannot decide what to do.
Mitchell was supposed to return home by 6:00 p.m. It's now 8:45 p.m., and he is still in his car, waiting
for the road to be cleared of the rubble. The landslide has interfered with his plans.
Gina has just received the results of her husband's medical test. The results are not positive, and
Gina's worst fears have come true. Gina is mulling over the idea of tearing up the report and throwing
it away. However, in her heart, she knows that the right thing to do is to get her husband the best
treatment possible.
Ralph is driving to a baseball game with his friend Elle. She asks him to stop at a shopping mall on the
way and help her find a new dress. Annoyed, Ralph drops Elle at the mall without saying a word to her
and drives off to the game.
The forecast is calling for heavy winds and a severe hailstorm. Sanjay wants to reach home early. As
he steps out of the office, it grows dark, and hail begins to hit the ground. He feels that he is at the
mercy of the weather.

Answer 1

ANSWERS:
A (rosas story) AND C (gina's story)

Step-by-step explanation:

What is an internal conflict? An internal conflict is the struggle occurring within a character's mind. So, to put this into an example, your friends want to go on the highest roller coaster with you, but you have a fear of heights and you don't want to tell them. You're internally suffering. Should you suffer but fit in, or be comfortable but miss out? (Better off just telling them, buddy.)

LETS GET ANALYZING!! :)

1. In the first paragraph, Rosa says that she must submit her book report. However, she hasn't completed it. She wants to finish it, but she also wants to go shopping with her friends. This is one of the examples of internal conflict. This is because Rosa is conflicted between two things. Should she hang with her friends and have fun even though she will get a bad grade, or should she miss out but be responsible with her homework? Going back up there to the definition, I do think this is "the struggle occurring within a character's mind." ✅

2. In the second paragraph Mitchell is late getting home due to a landslide. That's all there is to the story. Is Mitchell thinking about wether he should do one thing or the other? No. Mitchell doesn't have any internal conflict, he is just sitting in the traffic. If Mitchell WERE to have an internal conflict, it would probably sound a little more like this: Mitchell antsily looks out the window. He thought about walking home, because it wasn't too far away, but he doesn't want to leave his sister in the car." What should Mitchell dooooooo????? Unfortunately, it didn't say that, so we can mark this one wrong.

3. In the third paragraph, Gina received bad news from a medical test, and doesn't know whether she should a: throw it away, or b: tell her husband. This causes an internal conflict because she is struggling to make up her mind. So, this IS internal conflict. ✅

4. The fourth and fifth ones are just stories that have no conflict. It's like saying, "I ate cereal and then i went to school and then I learned." It's just an ongoing story with no conflict. If there were conflict though, it would be like "I ate cereal and was late for the bus. The thoughts of running after it and staying home pulled and played a game of tug a war." Internal conflict always proposes a question of: what should I do? What should she do? What will she do? Blah blah blah.

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