13. Read the following sentences from "Day of the Butterfly." . She picked up a leatherette case with a mirror in it, a comb and a nail file and a
natural lipstick and a small handkerchief edged with gold thread. I had noticed it
before. "You take that," she said...
...All the presents on the bed, the folded paper and ribbons, those guilt-tinged
offerings, had passed into this shadow, they were no longer innocent objects to be
touched, exchanged, accepted without danger. I didn't want to take the case now but
I could not think how to get out of it, what lie to tell. I'll give it away, I thought, I
won't ever play with it. I would let my little brother pull it apart.
The main conflict in these sentences can be identified as
Oman vs. man.
Oman vs. nature.
man vs. society.
Oman vs. himself.

looks good to me! send it in!

explanation:

the author is showing that it is the insatisfaction of basic needs that brings about the protests such as the strikes.if workers do not earn enough to buy food and feed their families and themselves in order to continue working, what is the use of working? besides, another message from the author is that of the owners of factories should be worried about ensuring their furure by having a second and third generation of workers in their industries.if they do not hear the workers demands, they will not have any more workers to make their pockets full.

c? not a 100% sure

explanation:

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.