You have read the beginning of the old man and the sea. which part of the plot have you reached in the book?
a. the climax
b. the exposition
c. the resolution
d. the rising action

brazil   is on the caost

"why don't you like me the way i am? " i cried. "i'm not a genius! i can't play the piano, and even if i could, i wouldn't go on tv if you paid me a million dollars! "

explanation:

the conflict between jing-mei and her mother is over jing-mei's piano lessons since her mother wants her to become a prodigy but she does not want to play it any more.

the characters are fiction but they are based off of people that were reaky in that situation

d. must, like a wh_re, unpack my heart with words