What are the conflicts in this story? How do Barrett's actions move the plot forward? What does Barrett's response to the conflict tell you about his character? Barrett has been invited to attend an important baseball camp over the summer, but his mother, who works two jobs to support the family, tells him that they simply don't have the money to send him. Barrett is devastated, but he won't give up on his dream and decides to start mowing lawns to earn the money himself. He goes to the Mitchells' house first and knocks on the door. His teammate Kai answers, and he is not happy to see Barrett. Kai plays ball on Barrett's team, but he has not been invited to the summer camp and is still upset. Barrett wishes Kai's sister, Charise, or his father had answered the door. At least they would be reasonable. Barrett presses on anyway and offers his lawn-mowing services to Kai. Kai snickers and says they don't need their lawn cut. Barrett looks at the Mitchells' overgrown front lawn and knows Kai is lying, but he shrugs his shoulders and leaves to visit the next house. There are plenty of houses on his street; he'll earn that money somehow.

Read the excerpt from the war of the worlds. beyond the pit stood the little wedge of people with the white flag at its apex, arrested by these phenomena, a little knot of small vertical black shapes upon the black ground. as the green smoke arose, their faces flashed out pallid green, and faded again as it vanished. then slowly the hissing passed into a humming, into a long, loud, droning noise. slowly a humped shape rose out of the pit, and the ghost of a beam of light seemed to flicker out from it. forthwith flashes of actual flame, a bright glare leaping from one to another, sprang from the scattered group of men. it was as if some invisible jet impinged upon them and flashed into white flame. it was as if each man were suddenly and momentarily turned to fire. then, by the light of their own destruction, i saw them staggering and falling, and their supporters turning to run. which options accurately describe how the author develops the plot in the excerpt? (select all that apply.)the war of the worldsthe narrator does not react at first as he watches the men with the flag and hears the sounds in the pit. his inaction decreases the tension in the plot because the narrator is simply standing by. the narrator does not react at first as he watches the men with the flag and hears the sounds in the pit. his inaction keeps the tension steadily increasing as the narrator comes to realize the men are being killed. the narrator is distracted by his own observations of the men with the white flag and the humming sound, so he doesn't react as quickly as he should when the men are killed, thus extending the tension in the plot. the narrator is attentive to the men with the white flag and the humming sound, so he immediately understands what has happened when the men are killed, increasing the tension in the plot.