Hope knew how desperate hayley was to make it on the baseball team. hope had seen hayley's grandparents cheering at the game last year. they just looked so happy. the baseball team was the only thing that was going well in hayley's life. yet, hope knew that she was a better player than hayley. after baseball camp, there was really no competition. what was hope to do? here she was at tryouts, and it was too late to drop out. there was one more spot on the team. she believed strongly that she should always do her best, but she didn't want to break hayley's heart.

which statement describes the main plot of the scenario above best?

1. hope has an external conflict due to competition with hayley.

2. hope has an internal conflict due to a moral dilemma.

3. hope has an internal conflict due to her negative feelings toward hayley.

4. hope has an external conflict due to her missing baseball camp.

The answer is B

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themes and meanings

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there are two central themes in  the miracle worker: that the human spirit can triumph over even the most daunting of disabilities and that a dedicated teacher can transform the lives of those with whom he or she comes into contact. these inspirational themes have long been personified in the widely known true-life relationship between helen keller and annie sullivan, but  the miracle worker  also dramatizes collateral issues that extend beyond the particular case. underlying helen’s process of learning basic principles of what annie terms “obedience” (decorum, etiquette, and hygiene), there are more universal lessons of self-governance—the inculcation of self-restraint instead of willfulness, the development of self-discipline instead of self-indulgence. only when these lessons have been mastered can helen begin to acquire language—which, annie says, “is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”