Mom was with Ron in the living room,
listening to music too loud and playing board
games. She wasn't missing Dad.
-Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,
Jonathan Safran Foer
There was a lot of stuff that made me panicky,
like suspension bridges, germs, airplanes,
fireworks, Arab people on the subway (even
though I'm not racist).
-Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,
Jonathan Safran Foer
How are the conflicts different?
O The first passage has internal conflict; in the
second, internal leads to external conflict.
O The first passage reflects external conflict;
the second reflects internal conflict after 9/11.
O The first passage has external conflict; the
second has both internal and external
conflict.
