The novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins takes place in a highly controlled society made up of twelve districts that are ruled by an all-powerful Capitol. As punishment for an uprising against the Capitol years before, every district must select a boy and a girl between 12-18 to compete in an annual televised battle to the death. The novel's main character, Katniss Everdeen, must compete in the Hunger Games when her younger sister is selected in the lottery and Katniss volunteers to take her place. Katniss must travel to the Capitol with her fellow competitor from her district, meet her mentor, prepare for the games, and ultimately attempt to survive the brutal contest. What is the central conflict and how does it drive the plot's action?

Read the selection below and answer the question. an open boat by alfred noyes o, what is that whimpering there in the darkness? 

 'let him lie in my arms. he is breathing, i know.
 look. i'll wrap all my hair round his neck' – the sea's rising,
 the boat must be lightened. he's dead. he must go.' 


 see - quick - by that flash, where the bitter foam tosses, 
 the cloud of white faces, in the black open boat, 
 and the wild pleading woman that clasps her dead lover 
 and wraps her loose hair round his breast and his throat.
 'come, lady, he's dead.' - 'no, i feel his heart beating,
 he's living, i know. but he's numbed with the cold. 
 see, i'm wrapping my hair all around him to warm him.' -
- 'no. we can't keep the dead, dear. come, loosen your hold.

 'come. loosen your fingers.' - 'o god, let me keep him! ' -
 o, hide it, black night! let the winds have their way! 
 and there are no voices or ghosts from that darkness, 
 to fret the bare seas at the breaking of day. the shift in the poem’s rhythm in the last stanza signifies a resolution to the conflict that the poem is a sonnet the speaker’s confusion an irregular rhyme scheme

Which of the following sentences refers to a conflict between characters in "two kinds"?

Martin luther king jr often spoke of a day in the future when he hoped that his children would be judged not by their skin color but instead by their character. write a narrative essay about a moment in your life when you were judged by something other than the content of your character. use narrative techniques to develop experiencies, events, and characters