Question

Read the excerpt from It's Our World, Too!: Young People Who Are Making a Difference.

Answer 1

The conflict in this excerpt affects Jesse because he decides to avoid speaking publicly about the situation. Both Jesse and Neto had made up their mind to speak in front of the school board about the racist remarks. This at the end paid off because the racist insults stopped.

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Answer 2

Answer: A) he decides to  avoid speaking publicly about the situation.

Explanation: A conflict is a struggle between opposite forces in a story, it can be between a character (usually the main one or an important one) and himself, society, another character, etc. In the given excerpt from "It's Our World Too!: Young People Who Are Making a Difference" we can see that Neto and Jesse had agreed to talk in front of the school board about the racist commentaries that were made towards them, but Jesse decides to  avoid speaking publicly about the situation.