Which detail helps readers infer that the strangers and the fishermen speak different languages?

What is the relationship between paragraph 2 paragraph 3 through 29?

Which is it? the desert is than the mountains? 1. drier 2. more dry

What is the narrator's main conflict in this passage? a. he doesn't like someone mispronouncing his name. b. he has a history of beating up kids he doesn't like. c. he has a violent temper that he cannot control. d. he doesn't like "the kid" he mentions in the paragraph.