Inner conversation means that there are two voices in the two parts of the cerebral hemisphere of the brain. The inner parent represents the left side of the brain and the child represents the right side of the brain and is described as the inner parent self-parenting the inner child and often resembles the parenting they grew up with as a child.
I would estimate that the first one is the answer.
I looked up the summary(s) for both the passages, and 'to build a fire' is about a guy who despite everything being against him, being persistent and dying because of his actions, while 'gumption' is about the hardships of african americans.
Of course, this is just my estimation.
I believe it’s character vs character because he’s talking to another character and there clearly conflict between the two of them
I believe that Braxton hicks is possibly another term for contractions
