Question

read the passage from two kinds. in fact, in the beginning, i was just as excited as my mother, maybe even more so. i pictured this prodigy part of me as many different images, trying each one on for size. i was a dainty ballerina girl standing by the curtains, waiting to hear the right music that would send me floating on my tiptoes. i was like the christ child lifted out of the straw manger, crying with holy indignity. i was cinderella stepping from her pumpkin carriage with sparkly cartoon music filling the air. in all of my imaginings, i was filled with a sense that i would soon become perfect. my mother and father would adore me. i would be beyond reproach. i would never feel the need to sulk for anything. but sometimes the prodigy in me became impatient. if you dont hurry up and get me out of here, im disappearing for good, it warned. and then youll what conflict is indicated by the underlined sentences? an internal conflict within the mother, who wants her daughter to be a prodigy an internal conflict within the narrator, who wants to be a prodigy but has not found the right activity an external conflict between the narrator and her mother over the pace of the narrators learning an external conflict between the narrator, who wants to be a prodigy, and her mother, who is less ambitious

Explanation:

The passage shows the narrator's excitement about being a prodigy but also her impatience as she hasn't found the right activity yet. The conflict is within the narrator herself.

Answer:

an internal conflict within the narrator, who wants to be a prodigy but has not found the right activity