Why does mama worry about billy

Read the excerpt from "broken chain." alfonso studied the magazine pictures of rock stars for a hairstyle. he liked the way prince looked—and the bass player from los lobos. alfonso thought he would look cool with his hair razored into a v in the back and streaked purple. but he knew his mother wouldn’t go for it. and his father, who was puro mexicano, would sit in his chair after work, sullen as a toad, and call him "sissy.” what details from the passage would best support a paragraph about conflict between characters?

The consequence of jim smiley’s human foible adds to the story’s humor. what foible does smiley demonstrate?

Which word from the stanza can you use as a clue to determine the meaning of the word vales ?