"Blackie said uneasily, "It's proposed that tomorrow and Monday we destroy Old Misery's house."
"Here, here," said a fat boy called Joe.
"Who's in favour?"
T said, "It's carried."
"How do we start?" Summers asked.
"He'll tell you," Blackie said. It was the end of his leadership. He went away to the back of the car-park and began to kick a stone, dribbling it this way and that. There was only one old Morris in the park, for few cars were left there except lorries: without an attendant there was no safety. He took a flying kick at the car and scraped a little paint off the rear mudguard. Beyond, paying no more attention to him than to a stranger, the gang had gathered round T; Blackie was dimly aware of the fickleness of favour. He thought of going home, of never returning, of letting them all discover the hollowness of T's leadership, but suppose after all what T proposed was possible-nothing like it had ever been done before. The fame of the Womsley Common car-park gang would surely reach around London. There would be headlines in the papers. Even the grown-up gangs who ran the betting at the all-in wrestling and the barrow-boys would hear with respect of how Old Misery's house had been destroyed. Driven by the pure, simple and altruistic ambition of fame for the gang, Blackie came back to where T stood in the shadow of Old Misery's wall.
Blackie's main conflict is that he is
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Responses
a. worried that the plan will take two days to carry out and that the gang might get caught in the act of destruction.
b. torn between his anger at the gang for following T and his own desire to join in the plan to destroy Old Misery's house.
c. jealous that T so easily out maneuvered him into becoming the new leader of the Wormsley Common car-park gang.
d. eager to be a part of a plan that could bring the gang so much fame but feels awkward because he is no longer the gang's leader.