Question

which sentence is an example of an inciting incident in american born chinese? a. jin wang perms his hair in order to look more like amelias friend timmy. b. jin wang tells the chinese herbalist that he wants to become a transformer. c. wei - chen calls jin wang a coward for not volunteering to take care of the animals. d. jin wang arrives in a new school where everyone sees him as different

Explanation:

An inciting incident is an event that sets the story's main conflict in motion. In "American Born Chinese", Jin Wang arriving at a new school where he's seen as different introduces the central conflict of his struggle with identity and fitting in, which drives the plot. Option A is a later action related to his crush, B is a minor moment, and C is a conflict within the story but not the inciting incident. Option D is the event that starts the main conflict of Jin's experience with being an outsider.

Answer:

D. Jin Wang arrives in a new school where everyone sees him as different.