The basketball court is a strange patch of neutral ground a meeting olace for every element of a neighborhoods cohort of young men we were all enclosed by the same fence bumping into one another fighting celebrating showing one another our best and worst revealing ourselves even our cruelty and crimes as if that fence had created a circle of trust a brotherhood what is the theme?

what are 3 open ended questions you can ask based on this quote?

What type of external conflict occurs in the excerpt from “stephen crane’s own story”? it was now that the first mate showed a sign of losing his grip. to us who were trying in all stages of competence and experience to launch the lifeboat he raged in all terms of fiery satire and hammerlike abuse. but the boat moved at last and swung down toward the water. a. person versus person b. person versus nature c. person versus society d. person versus self i think its either b or d.