English, 29.06.2019 15:00 Nathaliasmiles

Read the excerpts from the namesake. excerpt 1: he is afraid to be nikhil, someone he doesn’t know. who doesn’t know him. his parents tell him that they each have two names, too, as do all their bengali friends in america, and all their relatives in calcutta. it’s a part of growing up, they tell him, part of being a bengali. excerpt 2: it is nothing like the schooling gogol’s parents have known, fountain pens and polished black shoes and notebooks and good names and sir or madam at a tender age. here the only official ritual is pledging allegiance first thing in the morning to the american flag. which statement best tells how the main conflict in the first excerpt is different from the main conflict in the second excerpt? the first shows an external conflict related to emotion, while the second shows an internal conflict related to cultural differences. the first shows an internal conflict related to emotion, while the second shows an external conflict related to cultural differences. the first shows a global conflict related to cultural differences, while the second shows a personal conflict related to family dynamics. the first shows a global conflict related to family dynamics, while the second shows a personal conflict related to cultural differences.

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Read the excerpts from the namesake. excerpt 1: he is afraid to be nikhil, someone he doesn’t know....