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

The board was meeting that night. Baldy offered to pick Neto up and take him. Neto hesitated. He knew he had the courage to blast through tacklers and the toughness to work all day in the beet fields, but this seemed harder. When Jesse Paz said he'd go, Neto finally agreed.

Baldy picked up Neto first, but when they got to Jesse's, Jesse was nowhere to be found. Now Neto had to choose: did he testify alone or forget it? "All right," Neto finally said, letting out a long breath. "We've gone this far. Let's finish it."

The conflict in this excerpt affects Jesse because he decides to
avoid speaking publicly about the situation.

confront the racist crowd about their remarks.

only go to the meeting if Neto went with him.

address the school during the morning announcements.

Respuesta :

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.

The conflict in this excerpt affects Jesse because:

  • He decides to avoid speaking publicly about the situation.

What is a Conflict?

A conflict is a disagreement between two opposing forces. In the text above, a conflict occurred when Jesse backed away from testifying.

Although he promised that he would speak up about the racism that he and other people of color were facing in school before the committee, he back-tracked in the end.  

He was not found when Neto went to pick him up. So, option A shows how the conflict negatively affected Jesse.

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