The answer is the paragraph beginning..The MS control the tops.." tops of freight trains.." ..they rob migrants riding the trains.." In order to cross the country in search for her mother, Enrique has to go up against the most dangerous sitiations.Not only has he to cope with gangsters ,but also confront thieves and officers willing to hunt migrants .Nevertheless, after the abandonment that could have caused his addiction, Enrique decides that no action is dangerous enough to keep him away from his mother any longer.
Still trying to get you to understand the story
A external conflict is a struggle that pits a character against an outside force such as another character or even nature.
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<span>“By
long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until I trembled at the
sound of my own voice . . . .”
His nerves are unstrung, he trembled at the sound of his own voice, this could mean many things however it is likely he is Saying (or Thinking) things that scare him when snapping back to reality, like a man who was about to commit suicide but then remembers reality and he fears his own mind of what he was thinking.
“Another step before my fall, and the
world had seen me no more . . . .”
sounds cool, but is too vague.
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<span>“[T]here was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors.” This is close to the first one, he sees how far he is to madness, but is still on the edge and not insane Yet. However it's not as clear as the first one I listed
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<span>“I saw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me . . . .” displays nothing.</span>
You didn’t attach the poem, but I would assume that it is because the boot is used more frequently, and there’s a familiarity between the boot and a person that isn’t always present with the dress shoe– one is likely to be owned by many.
