I would have to agree with you one of the major conflicts was he was trying to understand what his grandfather told him and make sense of it. It felt as though those words were a curse. “Yet on his deathbed, he called himself a traitor and a spy, and he had spoken meekness as a dangerous activity” (242). He wanted to deliver that speech so bad. That was the only thing he was thinking about. Even though he had to fight and getting shocked. He still managed to give his speech and get a great rewarded at the end. He earned his place at the college
