In this excerpt from amy tan’s “rules of the game,” the conflict between waverly and her mother reaches its peak. which part of the plot does the excerpt depict?

i knew it was a mistake to say anything more, but i heard my voice speaking. “why do you have to use me to show off? if you want to show off, then why don’t you learn to play chess.”

my mother’s eyes turned into dangerous black slits. she had no words for me, just sharp silence.

i felt the wind rushing around my hot ears. i ierked my hand out of my mother’s tight grasp and spun around, knocking into an old woman. her bag of groceries spilled to the ground.

“aii-ya! s t u p d girl! ” my mother and the woman cried. oranges and tin cans careened down the sidewalk. as my mother stooped to the old woman pick up the escaping food, i took off.

a. exposition
b. rising action
c. climax
d. resolution

C) Climax.

Explanation: in literature, a conflict is a struggle between opposite forces, usually between a character (the main character or a very important one) and himself (internal conflict), society or another character (external conflict). The climax of a narrative is that particular point in a narrative at which the conflict or tension hits the highest point, and it often leads to the resolution (solution of the conflict). The given excerpt from Amy Tan’s “Rules of the Game" is the climax of the story, because the conflict between Waverly and her mother reaches its peak.

that the mashine was talking hahahaha

beginner

government is strong when they have the ability to persuade those they govern to believe government has enough power to force them or should be forcing them to do government’s will.

when enough of the citizenry do not believe government can force them or should force them to do its bidding, government has lost or will lose its strength and power to coerce.

when enough of the citizenry do believe government can force or should force them to do its bidding, they become passive at the least or actively pro-government and repeat government’s own rhetoric to pass on what they have been persuaded by government’s propaganda.

a true majority isn’t always needed to govern or to stop government. many times all that is needed is a strong minority. if a determined 30% of the population rises up against government in a concerted effort to bring it down, this size minority usually will succeed as long as those actively opposing the minority are less in force than the minority. so if 41% of the population sits at home watching tv rooting for one side or the other, they don’t matter. it’s the active parties who make a difference.