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directions: read the excerpt below, and use the space provided to respond to the question that follows.
rainsford sprang up and moved quickly to the rail, mystified. he strained
his eyes in the direction from which the reports had come, but it was like trying
to see through a blanket. he leaped upon the rail and balanced himself there, to
get greater elevation; his pipe, striking a rope, was knocked from his mouth. he
lunged for it; a short, hoarse cry came from his lips as he realized he had reached
too far and had lost his balance. the cry was pinched off short as the blood-warm
waters of the caribbean sea closed over his head.
he struggled up to the surface and tried to cry out, but the wash from the
speeding yacht slapped him in the face and the salt water in his open mouth
made him gag and strangle. desperately, he struck out with strong strokes after
the receding lights of the yacht, but he stopped before he had swum fifty feet. a
certain coolheadedness had come to him; it was not the first time he had been
in a tight place. there was a chance that his cries could be heard by someone
aboard the yacht, but that chance was slender and grew more slender as the yacht
raced on. he wrestled himself out of his clothes and shouted with all his power.
the lights of the yacht became faint and ever-vanishing fireflies; then they were
blotted out entirely by the night.
question: identify an example of internal conflict in the passage above. explain why your example works
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