A main thing in stories are conflicts. Conflicts are in every story. A conflict is a problem in a story; conflicts can be internal and external. In “Seventh Grade” the conflict is internal it is in the main character head, but in “Melting Pot” it is external it is between the people. “Seventh Grade” has a winner in the conflict unlike “Melting Pot” In “Seventh Grade” the internal conflict is in the main character’s, Victor, head. He is trying to impress the girl he likes named Teresa. This is the problem in the story; he takes French because she takes French. He also he tries to impress her by acting like he knows French. This story has a winner in the conflict. The winner is Victor; he acts like he knows French to impress Teresa and it works so now he gets to hang out with her more because she asked him to tutor her. …show more content…
The conflict is they do not like each other. This is the problem; the people on the street dislike each other. They all have different backgrounds. Some are Mexican, Italian, Japanese, etc. This story does not have a winner in the conflict. It does not have a winner because new people are going to keep coming and the old people are just going to stay mad so there is no winner. Both the stories “Seventh Grade” and “Melting Pot” have conflicts. One is internal and one is external. In “Seventh Grade” the conflict is internal, but in “Melting Pot” the conflict is external. In “Seventh Grade” there is a winner; in “Melting Pot” there is not a
One of the conflicts found in the story of Hana’s suitcase could be described as a character vs social world type of conflict. A character vs social world conflict occurs when the main character or other various characters from the story are prevented from or struggle to reach a goal due to social rule, custom, or policy from their world. In this case Hana, her brother George are prevented from having a normal childhood when Nazi Germany takes control of Czechoslovakia during World War II. During this time the Nazi’s made many rules and policies that kept Hana and George from doing what most other
The children’s transition is marked by a rivalry, one that surfaces early on in the story and is portrayed through delightful banter and retorts. The children’s bantering relieves some stress created by the unknown tiny steps they are taking in establishing a new type of relationship with their father in the absence of their mother. At no time do the children’s harmless antics towards one another escalate as indicated by critic Tara Baker when she explains that their arguments become deeper than the usual childish bickering. Baker seems to believe the children’s digs into one another are being fueled by difficult situations they have had to deal with lately (170).
Family relationsips are challenged in a great number of ways that become broken. Family relations are challenged in the two stories. The Lottery and the Crash. The families in both stories are close up until a certain point. The lottery is a very intense story as the Lottery isnt actually what a may seem, you dont actually win a lottery in a good way. Family gets picked and one of the members in the family gets stoned to death as they pick a letter with a black dot. In the crash racism effects the family relations
Both stories, Response to Executive Order 9066 and "Mericans", establish a common American Identity theme. The main idea of these two stories is how people may or may not relate to their cultures. Both are narrated by teenage girls, and both establish a common theme that your appearance does not define you.
...eral topic of school. The sister strives to graduate and go to school even though she is poor while her brother blames the school for him dropping out and not graduating. “I got out my social studies. Hot legs has this idea of a test every Wednesday” (118). This demonstrates that she is driven to study for class and get good grades while her brother tries to convince her that school is worth nothing and that there is no point in attending. “‘Why don’t you get out before they chuck you out. That’s all crap,’ he said, knocking the books across the floor. ‘You’ll only fail your exam and they don’t want failures, spoils their bloody numbers. They’ll ask you to leave, see if they don’t’” (118). The brother tries to convince his sister that school is not a necessity and that living the way he does, being a drop out living in a poverty stricken family is the best thing.
Your home life, your friends, and other people you know are different and similar than your classmates home life, friends, and other people they know. In the book The Wednesday Wars by Gary D Schmidt and The Outsiders by S.E Hinton there are many similarities and differences with each home life, friends, and minor character influence for the main characters in the book. The main characters of the book are Holling Hoodhood and Ponyboy Curtis. A short summary of The Wednesday Wars is Holling has to stay at the school with his teacher Mrs. Baker on Wednesdays because his classmates go to Catechism or Hebrew school, which Holling is not either of those. He has to read Shakespeare and do other tasks with Mrs. Baker. He also learns about
Everyday we observe people’s contrasting opinions. Whether it be in politics, school, or in one’s personal life, emotions are often a major factor when it comes to expressing one’s ideas. In writing, an audience must be aware this, and decide for themselves if an author is being bias or equally representing all sides to a situation. In both Into the Wild and In Cold Blood, the authors form distinct opinions about their main characters and believe family structure heavily influenced their future.
...school. Just like in the book, an incident will come up, it becomes “teacher vs. student”, and the fight begins. Next the principal is involved. If the problem is not solved and press gets a word of it, no doubt what the press will do. They’ll take the student’s side. IN the end, the student gets what they want usually. It may sound absurd but the next time you hear about one of these events see whose side you jump to first.
Conflict first arises when Blanche arrives at the Kowalski household and Stanley's authority over his home is questioned. Stanley has always had authority and control of his home and also his wife Stella. When Blanche arrives he feels that he is being invaded and doesn't agree with it. His "rat race" style of life doesn't match with Blanches but has somehow converted Stella. One of the main themes about conflict is that Stanley and Blanche are in a battle to win Stella and neither of them will give her up.
One explanation of how the conflict helps to drive the plot of the novel is the sinkhole because it shows the bravery of paul. As it states in the text “Panic breaks out: the walkways start splintering and portables start moving.What's up? Oh, nothing, just a GIANT SINKHOLE opening up under the field.Paul realizes his math class is being sucked underground, so without regard for his own safety, he runs to help.He and Joey, along with some 8th graders, form a line to help pull each kid out of the hole—while it's still growing.With portables crashing all around them, they save the last kids, and then all rush inside”.This conflict is Man vs Nature.
2. The main conflict of this story is a result of the family's financial status. Father's greed, low income, and Pyotr's frustration are key points to the main conflict. The conflict has plagued Pyotr most, the hallucination of abandoning his family is the main conflict in the story.
When reading the book you get a look at the conflicts; person vs. nature, person vs. self, and person vs. person. Miles Halter moves from his Florida home to the boarding school in Alabama, where he encounters an intensely hot and humid climate, which he must get use to since he was so excited to pack up and head off. After Miles settles into his new school he is picked on at first, “Christ! You could have drowned! They’re just supposed to throw you in the water in your underwear and run!” (Green 28), and he’s not fond of many people there. He is just trying to find himself, and figure out his purpose in life. He meets Alaska Young, who is also trying to find herself, while she is also trying to keep a relationship with her boyfriend back at home. As Alaska and Miles become closer, they take part in pulling pranks on the “Weekday Warriors”, the rich kids at the school who come to get there education then leave on the weekends to go home to their families. Miles falls for Alaska, and he must hide it from all his friends because he would never be good enough for her and to make things worse for Miles, she is deeply attached to her
Determine all of the story's conflicts. Determine the major conflict and state this in terms of protagonist versus antagonist.
Throughout the story, the writer uses the different lives of an African family and their union with an African American to show the cultural rift that occurs. Their daily lives show how people of different cultures strive to live together under the same roof. The clash of cultures is portrayed in the way they react to each other in the different circumstances.
... between the characters play the central role in the action of the story. These differences affect the ways in which these characters interact, they create the conflict in the story, and they affect the way the reader feels about and reacts to each of the characters. In making the issue of social class the focus of these two works, the authors successfully communicate to the readers their belief that, no matter how hard we might try to avoid it, class is indeed a major factor in today's society.