What's the common theme of modern hero stories

Is the sentence the refree blew her whistle and both teams rushed onto the field a coumpound or simple sentence

Rev. simon hosack] entered fully into the feeling of suffering and sorrow which took possession of me when i discovered that a girl weighed less in the scale of being than a boy, and he praised my determination to prove the contrary. which best describes society's view of boys' and girls' abilities during the period in which elizabeth cady stanton lived?

What is the narrators main conflict in this passage