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""When will the pain go away?" I asked her
"In time" she says." (Frank 316) Here she is having internal conflict just wondering when everything is going to go back to normal. Ever since Sarim died she always thought it was her fault and that the pain was never going to go away. She is just wondering when everything will go back to the good old days when she was happy.

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"Why did you do it? Were you feeling sad, and if so, why didnt you tell me? I would have listened...I didn't mean what I said in the last letter. I keep thinking of you all alone, climbing. I keep wondering how much pain you must have been in to do what you did..." (Frank 315-316). She is having internal conflict between being mad at Sarim and being sorry for him. A little later she reaches the point where she wonders if it is her fault, which is also some internal conflict

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"I am sorry for what I put you through, I never should have hidden in the closet and talked to you"(Frank 319). This quote is a man vs self because shes blaming his death onto herself.

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"'Rules are rules,' I say. The worm and the bees, the fear and the shame, are making it hard for me to breathe" (Frank 317). This quote show how Sonia feels shame because she isn't following her religion. This is an example of an internal conflict because she is trying to choose between her emotions or following Islam.

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"I will never be rid of the shame" (Frank 319). Throughout the whole story, Sonia is paranoid that her parents and the rest of the Muslim society are going to shame her for breaking the universal Muslim rules. Towards the end, she thinks that everything will be okay and no one will find out. However, the last couple lines of the story are her brother finding out about her secret relationship.

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"I won't ever be rid of the shame." (Frank 319). This is a woman vs society conflict because she already knew in her mind that what she was doing would be frowned upon. However, now that her brother confronted her for having a friend, he would tell her family. She knew that them and the rest of the Muslim community would  see her as a failure and be disappointed in her.

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"I understand now that you must have suffered terribly for disobeying the laws in order not to hurt my feelings"(Frank 319).This quote is a women vs. society conflict due to Sonia and Sarim going against their cultures laws or rules

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"One thing i know," she tells me, "is that when someone we loves dies, a lot of us start to wonder if it was our fault. A lot off us feel guilty" (Frank 317). This is showing man vs. self, because they are expressing inner thoughts, and struggles.

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"I am sorry for what I put you through. I never should have hidden in the closet and talked to you" (Frank 319).
This quote represents how she believes it was all her fault because she was talking to him but hiding it from her family. This could be women vs. self or women vs. society.

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"That's when I understand what happened. As clearly as bright chalked letters on a new blackboard. Because the answer is yes. It is my fault. It is absolutely my fault." This a women vs self issue because Sonia is putting this whole thing on herself.

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"When I refuse to be angry that I wasn't allowed to go to the funeral,.." (Frank 316).

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"When I arrive home, Nif is sitting on my bed. Holding all of my blue-lined squares of paper. Unfolded and rumpled."
"How could you?" he asks.
I won't ever be rid of the shame. (Frank 319)
This quote demonstrates the conflict between Sonia and herself, hating herself for what she has done.

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"In Pakistan you don't share your problems with anyone outside the family. Definitely not outside the religion." (Frank, 314) This is an example of man vs. society conflict. The narrator of the story likes getting help from the counselor, but according to her religion it is improper and shameful to seek help of people outside the family and religion.

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"it's his fault" I wail. "it's his fault" (Frank 314) this is a women versus self conflict because sonia believes that all her failings are due to sarim leaving,  but it actually is due of her missing him and being so angry that she lacks getting her grades up and the only person to blame is herself.

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"He wasn't. That's all. He was just tired. I shouldn't have talked to him. I shouldn't be here talking to you" (Frank 317). This is an example of Man vs society because in her culture she isn't supposed to share things like this with people outside of her family

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"I shouldn't have talked to him.  I shouldn't have talked to you."
Women vs society.  In her culture she isn't supposed to get close to any guys who aren't family members and she isn't supposed to talk about her problems to people out of her family.

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"Fear that maybe he did try to talk to me about something, and I didn't listen carefully enough. Fear that he'd asked me for my help somehow and I hadn't given it to him" (Frank 317).

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"Sometimes when I'm talking to the guidance counselor, a little worm of fear crawls up through my belly and into my neck. Fear that maybe he did try to talk me about something, and I didn't listen carefully enough. Fear that he'd ask me for my help somehow and I hadn't given it to him"(Frank 317). This is a conflict between Sonia and Sonia. She is starting to blame what has happened to him on herself even though there is nothing she could have done to know what was going on. She needs to accept it was out of her control and try to move on to feel better.

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"It is my fault. It is absolutely my fault." (Frank 318) This is an example of man vs self conflict because in here eyes Sarims death and actions were her fault.

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"That's when I understand what happened. As clearly as bright chalked letters on a new blackboard. Because the answer is yes. It is my fault. It is absolutely my fault." (Frank 318) This is a man vs man conflict because Sonia realizes it is her fault that Sarim is dead and she feels guilty about her decision to become friends with him.

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"The Guidance counselor agrees not to call my parents if I agree to visit her three times a week for an hour"(Frank 314). The conflict with this is that in Pakistan you usually don't share your problems.

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"Nif pulled me back from my parents and older brothers and threatened to tell my father about the closet. I shouldn't have even talked to Sarim." (Frank 310). The conflict is a character vs character conflict and character vs society. It is between her and Nif and also her and her parents .By breaking the rules and being shameful to her religion, Nif has threatened to tell her parents, which they could send her back home.

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"I'm sorry"(Frank) She blames herself for sarims suicide because she thinks he killed himself for breaking the muslim rules.

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"I won't ever be rid of the shame" (Frank 319). This is a woman vs society conflict and it shows how much trouble Sonia will be in because of the strict rules of her religion.

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"The guidance counselor reminds me that in Pakistan sticking to the rules might be simple, but that living here in Brooklyn, seeing other ways of life, seeing other people choose different options, makes rule keeping hard" (Frank 317) This is an example of an Woman vs Society because it shows how worried Sonia is about her Pakistan religion and she blames everything she has ever done against it, and the guidance counselor is trying to show her that isn't the reason.

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""When will the pain go away?" I ask her
"In time" she says. " (Frank 316)
This is an example of man, or in this case woman, against herself conflict, because she is struggling with feelings of guilt and pain with her friends suicide.

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"In Pakistan you don't share your problems with anyone outside the family" (Frank 314). This is a woman versus society issue because Sonia wants to interact with Sarim but isn't allowed to because of her religion's rules and expectations.