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Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Conflicts Unresolved
Identify one SPECIFIC internal or external conflict that could be described as yet UNRESOLVED at the end of the novel. Explain using SPECIFIC evidence from the novel. (10 points)
"It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that they hadn't heard us calling, still do not hear us, up here in the tree house, with our thinning hair and soft bellies, calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together."
The books last quote represents that the boys must believe their cries were never heard. They can never admit the possibility that their cries were heard and rejected, or heard and ignored, and that suicide is not simply the girls ignorance, but their deliberate reply.
The most obvious unresolved conflict at the end of the story is about Holden's emotional stability. At the end of the story, Holden has a "nervous breakdown" and falls into a psychotic state as he calls for his dead brother Allie. The audience, if it hasn't already figured it out, gets that the whole story is Holden's narrative to a therapist or - maybe just himself in a diary. But his story is retold memory and it is fresh in its pain and laughter. It makes the audience laugh at the farts during Pency Prep's Headmaster's speech, and makes the audience feel bad at Holden's consistent guilt over never saying good bye to his brother before Allie died. The unresolved issue: Is Holden going to crack when he gets out of the hospital? (the place where he is healing from his psychotic episode) depends on whether the audience thinks Holden's release of the pain is enough to heal him for the future. It's a challenge to find evidence in the story to support whether or not Holden is going be able to deal with the hypocrisy of adulthood and the phony quality that all people demonstrate at one time or another. But Holden's fans would support that he maintains enough stability to secure his own adult life. He at least gets it right with a lot of his condemnations, and though he lacks the skills to manage these as a adolescent, many people go through life without a clue and following the popular people. That Holden sees a lot of the phoniness in other's may make him more forgiving of himself when he finally sees that is is just like us, a part of humanity.
Throughout the novel "On the Road" Jack Kerouac is constantly moving, finding new people, finding people he already knew. In the end of the story Jack goes back to his aunts house in Jersey without telling what happened to his beloved best friend Dean. The whole story is based on Jacks travels with Dean and in the end you never find out what happened to him. I was at such a loss after reading it I actually went and researched the real life story.
well, at the end of the novel Huck has to go and live with his Aunt Sally and she is going to adopt him and "sivilize" him, and he can't stand that. So maybe because he does not want to go then he might try and escape by fleeing a train or something. With Huck it is somewhat unpredictable at times.
The best conflict in the book is Christopher having to over come his disability. He has autism, and has much trouble talking to people and understanding him. This plays an important roll in the book because he is out trying to find a killer and he can't even ask for help. He is scared to talk to people so he is on his own. But he ends up receiving help but his autism was not cured. So it was an unresolved conflict with himself.
In this book, the unresolved conflict at the end of the book was who really murdered the jewler, Paul Feder. he was found stabbed to death on the beach. the gala's elite guest list has now become a suspect list. at the end of the book, the murderer was never really found, and it is still a mystery.
The book was pretty easy to get but the only thing that confused me was i didnt understand why duddits was an alien and why would an alien such as duddits give the kids telepathic ability. to me it makes no sence that duddits helped the boys out.
Unfortunatelly I'm not done reading my novel. But there is a thing that seems to be unresolved to me. I'm more than a half way through my book and I still don't know why the novel is called "To Kill a Mokingbird". My point here is that it takes a little too long to get into the action. So far I've only found out who the characters, and what goes on every day. But I'm hopping that will lead me to the main conflict.
One conflict would have to be whether or not to actually charge Madec for the aggravated assault. He was never actually convicted or even put on trial for the charge. Ben did not want to prosecute him for the charge for some unkwown reason. Ben was quoted by the author as saying "I came here to report an accident". We do not know the reason why Ben did not charge him for a crime where there is proof of.
The major unresolved internal conflict is with Roy, who threw the game for the PIrates. Why did he do it? He then buried his bat in the field. The next morning in the newspaper was him at ninteen with a gunshot in his chest. End of book.
"Theres gunna be 200 cammels and elephants, arabs and merchants for us to rob". "They use magicians to shield themselves from being seen" See tom sawyer cant stop lying. There obviously were no Arabs and such but he keeps telling his "gang" that there are people for them to rob and to kill and loot to be pillaged but there really isnt anything to do.
In my book their were no really big conflicts that were or were not resolved. It is just about a boys experience after he runs away. I guess there some little comflicts that could be considered unresolved. For example, Holden never called the girl he liked, he always said he was going to but never did. The whole book was about him learing life lessons, so I think that anything that was unresolved would be resolved in the future.
The whole time that Ben was in court trying to plead his case against Madec no one would believe him they only bought Madec’s story and when they finally found out what a fraud Madec was and believed Ben there was apology and Hondurark asked if Madec was going to be charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, which he did commit, and they asked Ben if he would testify to that and he replied. “No I came in here to report an accident.” Which it seems like he was sort of having a conflict with the justice system because no one had believed him for so long that he did not want to even testify against Madec for crimes that he committed against Ben.
Through the story there are many conflicts which join to create one large conflict, winning the war. But many little conflicts involve racism and fellow squad members get in arguments, which really impacts the squad and damages them. During the story though, are resolved through difficult obsticles.
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"It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that they hadn't heard us calling, still do not hear us, up here in the tree house, with our thinning hair and soft bellies, calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together."
The books last quote represents that the boys must believe their cries were never heard. They can never admit the possibility that their cries were heard and rejected, or heard and ignored, and that suicide is not simply the girls ignorance, but their deliberate reply.
The most obvious unresolved conflict at the end of the story is about Holden's emotional stability. At the end of the story, Holden has a "nervous breakdown" and falls into a psychotic state as he calls for his
dead brother Allie. The audience, if it hasn't already figured it out, gets that the whole story is Holden's narrative to a therapist or - maybe just himself in a diary. But his story is retold memory and it is fresh in its pain and laughter. It makes the audience laugh at the farts during Pency Prep's Headmaster's speech, and makes the audience feel bad at Holden's consistent guilt over never saying good bye to his brother before Allie died. The unresolved issue: Is Holden going to crack when he gets out of the hospital? (the place where he is healing from his psychotic episode) depends on whether the audience thinks Holden's release
of the pain is enough to heal him for the future. It's a challenge to
find evidence in the story to support whether or not Holden is going be able to deal with the hypocrisy of adulthood and the phony quality that all people demonstrate at one time or another. But Holden's fans
would support that he maintains enough stability to secure his own adult life. He at least gets it right with a lot of his condemnations, and though he lacks the skills to manage these as a adolescent, many people go
through life without a clue and following the popular people. That
Holden sees a lot of the phoniness in other's may make him more forgiving of himself when he finally sees that is is just like us, a part of humanity.
Throughout the novel "On the Road" Jack Kerouac is constantly moving, finding new people, finding people he already knew. In the end of the story Jack goes back to his aunts house in Jersey without telling what happened to his beloved best friend Dean. The whole story is based on Jacks travels with Dean and in the end you never find out what happened to him. I was at such a loss after reading it I actually went and researched the real life story.
well, at the end of the novel Huck has to go and live with his Aunt Sally and she is going to adopt him and "sivilize" him, and he can't stand that. So maybe because he does not want to go then he might try and escape by fleeing a train or something. With Huck it is somewhat unpredictable at times.
The best conflict in the book is Christopher having to over come his disability. He has autism, and has much trouble talking to people and understanding him. This plays an important roll in the book because he is out trying to find a killer and he can't even ask for help. He is scared to talk to people so he is on his own. But he ends up receiving help but his autism was not cured. So it was an unresolved conflict with himself.
In this book, the unresolved conflict at the end of the book was who really murdered the jewler, Paul Feder. he was found stabbed to death on the beach. the gala's elite guest list has now become a suspect list. at the end of the book, the murderer was never really found, and it is still a mystery.
The book was pretty easy to get but the only thing that confused me was i didnt understand why duddits was an alien and why would an alien such as duddits give the kids telepathic ability. to me it makes no sence that duddits helped the boys out.
Unfortunatelly I'm not done reading my novel. But there is a thing that seems to be unresolved to me. I'm more than a half way through my book and I still don't know why the novel is called "To Kill a Mokingbird". My point here is that it takes a little too long to get into the action. So far I've only found out who the characters, and what goes on every day. But I'm hopping that will lead me to the main conflict.
One conflict would have to be whether or not to actually charge Madec for the aggravated assault. He was never actually convicted or even put on trial for the charge. Ben did not want to prosecute him for the charge for some unkwown reason. Ben was quoted by the author as saying "I came here to report an accident". We do not know the reason why Ben did not charge him for a crime where there is proof of.
The major unresolved internal conflict is with Roy, who threw the game for the PIrates. Why did he do it? He then buried his bat in the field. The next morning in the newspaper was him at ninteen with a gunshot in his chest. End of book.
"Theres gunna be 200 cammels and elephants, arabs and merchants for us to rob". "They use magicians to shield themselves from being seen"
See tom sawyer cant stop lying. There obviously were no Arabs and such but he keeps telling his "gang" that there are people for them to rob and to kill and loot to be pillaged but there really isnt anything to do.
In my book their were no really big conflicts that were or were not resolved. It is just about a boys experience after he runs away. I guess there some little comflicts that could be considered unresolved. For example, Holden never called the girl he liked, he always said he was going to but never did. The whole book was about him learing life lessons, so I think that anything that was unresolved would be resolved in the future.
The whole time that Ben was in court trying to plead his case against Madec no one would believe him they only bought Madec’s story and when they finally found out what a fraud Madec was and believed Ben there was apology and Hondurark asked if Madec was going to be charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, which he did commit, and they asked Ben if he would testify to that and he replied. “No I came in here to report an accident.” Which it seems like he was sort of having a conflict with the justice system because no one had believed him for so long that he did not want to even testify against Madec for crimes that he committed against Ben.
Through the story there are many conflicts which join to create one large conflict, winning the war. But many little conflicts involve racism and fellow squad members get in arguments, which really impacts the squad and damages them. During the story though, are resolved through difficult obsticles.
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