I accually just read this book.
If you havent read it completely, or arent almost finished, then you should probably stay away from this answer. Sorry!
A few differences would be things like:
The children are adopted and do not live with their real mothers.
Each child is not allowed to have time to play based on what their parent want.
Children are classified in age groups and get toys to play with based on their age group.
Answer:
conflict
Explanation:
AS the excerpt is progressing you can read all the difficulties that the protagonist is having, you can understand how much better he could be doing if he had his friend there with him, and if he were loyal it would be easier to face the current and the fogs that´s coming.
Well an interjection is an exclamation so definitely not d or a in my opinion i say C
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKAYYY GIMME A SEC AND ILL BE DONE