Which excerpt from amy tan's "fish cheeks" is most clearly an example of conflict?
a.a bowl soaking dried fungus back to life. a plate of squid, their backs crisscrossed with knife markings so they resembled bicycle tires.
b.it wasn't until many years later — long after i had gotten over my crush on robert — that i was able to fully appreciate her lesson and the true purpose behind our particular menu.
c.then my father poked his chopsticks just below the fish eye and plucked out the soft meat. "amy, your favorite," he said, offering me the tender fish cheek. i wanted to disappear.
d.i knew that she understood how much i had suffered during the evening's dinner?

The ANSWER is C....

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The excerpt from "Fish Cheeks" by Amy Tan, that is most clearly an example of conflict is c. then my father poked his chopsticks just below the fish eye and plucked out the soft meat. "Amy, your favorite," he said, offering me the tender fish cheek. I wanted to disappear.

This is an internal conflict in a character, is mental struggle than comes from opposite demands. The narrator's favorite dish is fish cheeks, but she doesn't want to take it in front of the visitors.The narrator is fourteen, she has a crush on the Minister's son. The whole minister's family is invited to Christmas Eve dinner. She is afraid of what they would think about their "shabby Chinese Christmas", their noisy relatives and their Chinese food. During dinner, she feels ashamed of her father's manners.

Answer:

C is correct the the other right answer is her crying when her family invites the ministers family over for dinner.

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