Hello, Freshmen!
Please respond to the question below to fulfill your outside reading requirement. This response should be roughly 150-250 words.
DUE DATE: Monday, October 12th
Identify the major conflict or conflicts in the novel you read. Describe the nature of the conflict and events leading to it. Is the conflict internal or external? What impact, if any, does it have on various characters? Then, explain how the conflict is resolved. Give specific details throughout your discussion.
Remember to include the title and author in your response.
Also include your name and class period at the end of your discussion.
Good luck!
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I read Son of the Mob:Hollywood Hustle by Gordon Korman over the summer and it is loaded with conflicts, internal and external. The major conflict would have to be Vince's life with the mob follows him to California and of course its an external conflict. He mentions early in the book he wants to get away from the vending machine business and he dose for a little while until a couple of his uncles and his brother Tommy brother show up then every thing goes down hill. The conflict real impacts most of all the main characters associated with Vince and is resolved when they are done with their business and go home at the end of book.
I read The Firm by John Grisham. The external conflict throughout the story dealt with one decision that changed Mitch and Abby's lives. Mitch was a smart young man, who just graduated from law school. He had a beautiful wife and a promising future. The firm was a manipulative group of lawyers looking for someone new. They gave Mitch a nice car, a big house, and his own parking spot at work. Mitch and Abby couldn't have been happier.
Things are going well until Mitch suspects the firm of the deaths of two former lawyers. His future is soon in jeapordy. When the FBI confronts him and tells him that his house is wired and bugged, Mitch becomes fearful. The firm is listening and watching him, and once you join you're in for life.
This problem becomes hard on Mitch but especially hard on Abby. Their lives are about to change forever. Abby once was concerned about having kids, but now her concern is life and death. They make a deal with the FBI; if the FBI pays them millions and gets Mitch's brother out of jail, then they will gather information on the firm and run. If they decide to act like they know nothing, then they could face jail for working with the firm. It is cruel and unfair but there is no escape.
In the end, Mitch and Abby escape to an island and are forced to live there for the rest of their life. Throughout the whole story, Mitch and Abby became closer than ever and they found strength in each other.
Heather West
Third Period
I read The Firm by John Grisham. The external conflict throughout the story dealt with one decision that changed Mitch and Abby's lives. Mitch was a smart young man, who just graduated from law school. He had a beautiful wife and a promising future. The Firm was a manipulative group of lawyers looking for someone new. They gave Mitch a nice car, a big house, and his own parking spot at work. Mitch and Abby couldn't have been happier.
Things are going well until Mitch suspects the firm of the deaths of two former lawyers. His future is soon in jeapordy. When the FBI confronts him and tells him that his house is wired and bugged, Mitch becomes fearful. The firm is listening and watching him, and once you join you're in for life.
This problem becomes hard on Mitch but especially hard on Abby. Their lives are about to change forever. Abby once was concerned about having kids, but now her concern is life and death. They make a deal with the FBI; if the FBI pays them millions and gets Mitch's brother out of jail, then they will gather information on the firm and run. If they decide to act like they know nothing, then they could face jail for working with the firm. It is cruel and unfair but there is no escape.
In the end, Mitch and Abby escape to an island and are forced to live there for the rest of their life. Throughout the whole story, Mitch and Abby became closer than ever and they found strength in each other.
Heather West
Third Period
I read "I'd Tell You I Love You but Then I’d Have to Kill You" by Ally Carter. The main conflict is about a girl, Cammie, who goes to a secret spy school, Gallagher Academy, and is in love with a small town boy, Josh. She can't tell this boy who she really is, because it will ruin the school’s image and could jeopardize both their lives. So as she and Josh build their relationship, Cammie is building a pretend life full of lies that she is telling to Josh that make her seem normal. This external conflict affects her two best friends, Bex and Macey. They both try to help Cammie sneak on and off the grounds to meet with Josh, do her hair and help her to be “normal” on dates. The conflict is resolved when Cammie comes clean, (about the fact she goes to Gallagher Academy-not that it’s a spy school), breaks up with Josh, but Josh comes after her when she has gone on a secret mission test. While Cammie is fighting the “bad guy”, Josh thinks she is really in jeopardy and comes to save her. Then Cammie really comes clean and confesses about the spy-school and her non-normal life. Josh has to stay at the school for that night with Cammie’s mom, the principal. Josh understands that he shouldn’t and won’t tell about what the Gallagher Academy really is.
Maddy Day, 3rd Period
I read Poseur, by Rachel Maude, for my outside reading assignment. The main characters included Petra Greene, Janie Farrish, Charlotte Beverwil, and Mellissa Moon. Each of the girls had a completely unique, different personality which made them all individuals. The book was mostly about these characters joining a club that designed and produced fashionable clothes for all styles. The external conflict in the book is presented in the exposition. Because the girls have such different personalities, it is hard for them to come up with designs that they all agree are "wearable." The group breaks up in the middle of the story, but they realize that even though they have differences, they miss each other, they miss the club, and they miss fashion. The internal conflict in the book is the problem the narrator, Jannie Farrish, has. She wants to be "like everyone else." She attends this private school that is full of rich, snobs. It's difficult for her to decide to be her own person, or to try to fit in with the crowd. Her conflict is resolved at the end when the girls decide that her personality was a key component for their success. If she had just gone along with what they wanted, their small company would have gone bankrupt. Instead, she spoke her mind and saved the company. This book was wonderful and I encourage all girls that are interested in fashion to read it.
Kimia Movahed
First period
for my outside reading i read "Son of the Mob" by Gordon Korman. the main conflict in the story is between vince and his fathers so called bussiness. His fahther along with most of his relactives are involved in the mob, and his dad is a renowned mobster. Vince can literaly not escape his ties with the mob. It seems that everywhere he goes something or someone comes up that is mob related, like when he was on the beach with his girlfriend and went to get a blanket out of his trunk there was a dead man laying inside, thus riuning his date. also his house was bugged with microphones and cameras and all the calls were traced. the only way for them to get away from that was to talk in the basement which had completly bare walls. Vince trys to cut his ties with the mob but it is so far in his roots, i believe his problems with the mob will never completely disappear
Zack Whitfield. 3rd period
I read The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer. The major conflict in this book is what Juliet, an author, will write her next book about. After writing a successful string of light-hearted newspaper articles during World War II, she published a biography that was not very popular. So now Juliet needs a new subject and has no idea where to start. She and a literary group in the Guernsey Channel Islands accidentally come in contact and start writing letters to each other. Juliet, who lives in England, travels to Guernsey in hopes of finding a book topic. She decides to center the story around a young woman who was a member of the literary society but was sent to a concentration camp during the war and died. Juliet's new novel features the people on the island, the literary society, and the way they lived during the war. A minor conflict in the book is Juliet's relationship with Mark Reynolds. They start dating and Mark proposes. She does not answer and eventually realizes they are not right for each other. It took her a while to figure that out.
I read The Invisibl Man by HG Wells. This book is about a man who discovers how to make objects invisible, but when experimenting on a neighbors cat, he turns himself invisible to escape his landlord. The first conflict is between him and his landlord, which ends when he escapes him. Another conflict is when he starts stealing things, then he reveals that he is invisible to the owner of the hotel he says at. He then escapes by taking all his clothes off. Later he shows up at the house of a man he recognizes named Kemp. He then explains that he plans to start a "Reign of terror". When he realizes that he is crazy, he calls the police, but he escapes once again after fighting the police. At the end of this book, the conflict between the invisible man (Mr. Griffin), Kemp, and the police is finally ended when Mr. Griffin attacks Kemp and the townspeople and police kill Mr. Griffin. At the very end, his body starts to fade back into visibility.
I read "Son of the Mob" for my outside reading book. This book has internal and external conflict. The main character in the story, Vince, has external conflict with his dad and his "family business" and how it ruins his whole life. Another external conflict is between Vince and his girlfriend, Kendra Bightly. The conflict is that they can't be together because Kendra's dad is an FBI agent trying to put Vince's father in jail for his mob business. The example of internal conflict is Vince fighting with himself about how to get out of the mob business and somehow ends up having to do jobs for his brother and other family members. He hates how his dad's business is ruining his life but he always ends up helping it out.
Tyler Gibson
1st period
I read Iceman:My Fighting Life by Chuck Liddell. This book had a lot of conflicts but the main conflict in this book was that Chuck Liddell wanted to become a famous fighter but everywhere he went he was just some scary guy with a mohawk and a tattoo on the side of his head. He went down to Brazil and fought in there league of fighting and won. He was treated like a hero there but when he came back to the U.S. he was still that scary guy. He later started fighting in the UFC and started getting recognized. While the UFC was getting bigger and making more money the more popular he got. He finally solved his problem by not giving up his dream and sticking with it in the hard times to get up to where he is at today. Hunter Brizes 3rd period.
I read Midnighters:The Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld. The conflicts in this story are both internal and external. The major conflict would have to be about the main character, Jessica Day. The onflict would be that she is trying to find her self again and learn what her power in the 'Secret Hour' is. The Secret Hour in the story is when the clock strikes midnight everything in the world freezes for an hour. The first time she's out in the Secret Hour she thinks it's just a dream. But on the second or third outing she learns it's not. During one of the outings she is attacked by a many 'darklings', they were the original nightmares. She, and her new friends, who call themselves the Midnighters, try to figure out why she is being attacked. And at the same time she wants to know what her power is in the Secret Hour, because everyone else in the group has one. By the end of the story she finds out what her powers are and a bit about herself as well. It's impact on the other characters would be that it brought them closer together than they were before.
Sam
1st period
I read All Quiet on the Western front by Erich Maria Remarque. This story was based on WWI from a germans point of view. The main conflict of this story was for company 2, a german regiment of the army, was to stick together and help eachother out to survive the war. This is a external conflict. Death foreshadows the climax of this story. It was impossible to survive the war, many people died every day from what Paul, the main character, said. At the end of the story all of Pauls friends have been killed in the war, and Paul was the last person to live in his company. At the last chapter it says Paul died, but he died a quiet and peaceful death. Which comes up with the name All Quiet on the Western Front.
Jacob Turner
3rd period
For my outside reading assignment I read The Alchemyst by Michael Scott, the first book in the six-volume series The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel. In this novel, a pair of twins named Sophie and Josh Newman discover their incredible supernatural powers.
The story begins with Josh working at a bookstore and his sister working at the coffee-shop across the street. When they both discover that Nick and Perry Fleming are actually the immortal humans Nicholas and Perenelle Flamel, their world changes drastically. They become the twins of legend foretold in the Codex, the Book of Abraham the Mage. One of the most powerful books in the universe, it contains the secret to immortality, the ability to change coal into diamonds, and the power to make our world a paradise-or destroy it completely.
The main conflict in this book is external, and is between the Flamels and the twins versus the Dark Elders and their agents-one of whom being Dr. John Dee. These Dark Elders want to return the world to the way it once was before humans, when they walked the Earth. If this were to happen, the human race would become slaves-or food. To try to achieve their goal, they send Dee to Nicholas Flamel's bookshop to steal the Codex. In a scuffle that nearly destroyed half the street, he leaves with the Codex-however, missing the last two pages. These pages were accidentally torn out by Josh in the fight, and contain the Final Summoning used to summon the rest of the Dark Elders back into this world. Josh, Sophie, and the Flamels leave San Francisco to retrieve the Codex, all the while being chased by Dr. Dee for the last two pages.
Josh and Sophie are highly affected by the discovery that magic is real, and whether or not they can trust the Flamels. When Sophie has her magical powers Awakened, Josh begins to feel a rift growing between him and his twin. Because the book ends in a cliffhanger, the conflict is not yet resolved, and you have to read the second book to find out what happens!
Tara Pilato
4th Period
I chose to read “The Choice” by Nicholas Sparks. It tells the story of how Gabby and Travis fell in love and what choice Travis must make eleven years later after they have been married and started a family. While these two are neighbors, Gabby has a boyfriend. She is having an internal conflict with her conscious, for she knows she shouldn't be spending so much time with Travis. She decides that she must end her relationship with her boyfriend because she has fallen in love with somebody else. They live a normal life for about ten years, but then the two of them get into a wreck. Travis and Gabby are having an argument in the car, but Travis decides to ignore his wife. This could be described as an external conflict between the two, which eventually leads to the wreck. Travis comes out with no life-threatening conditions, but Gabby is in a coma. She stays in a coma for about three months. Gabby had made Travis promise her that if anything like this ever happened to her, he would let her go so he would not suffer and ruin his life hanging on to her. This is the main conflict within this novel. It is internal, concerning Travis because he has to decide whether he will have hope that his wife will wake up or let her go so he and his family can move on. He has trouble making this big choice, but he eventually decides to have faith that she will come out of the coma and they will continue their lives. Their daughters do not visit their mother as much any more, and Travis must go back to work. When she finally wakes up, he knows he made the right choice when the conflict appeared.
Taylor Baisey
4th Period
The book I chose to reaad for my outside reading was Miles to Go by Miley Cyrus. Miles to Go was about Miley's life before being a star and now. She was always close to her family even though sometimes they were in different states. It takes alot for a movie star to stick with her family. One thing that stood out to me was when she was invited to all these celeberties parties but she decided she just wanted to go home get in her pajamas and hang out with her mom. That takes alot.
There were many examples of conflict in this book. One that she elaborates on was the mean girls in the 6th grade. They treated her like she was a brick wall, meaning they had no respect for her, they did not include her. They pretty much acted like she was not there unless they needed someone to pick on. This is an example of external conflict because it is the struggle between the protagonist and another character against nature or some outside force. One day as she was creeping to science class the girls shoved her into the janitors closet and locked the door,she could not get out.
Even though there was times were Miley thought she would probably be where she is today she kept her head up and did not give up on her dreams. Thats what makes her the strong girl she is today.
Leeza King
3rd period
I read Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court by Coach John Wooden as my outside reading. It really did not have too many conflicts. The book was mainly wise quotes and sayings that gave good advise about solving conflicts. The main external conflict was John Woodens choice to either coach at UCLA or Minnesota. This was settled by fate when a storm prevented a phone call from Minnesota. By the time they called, coach Wooden had already commited to UCLA even though he would have rather coahed at Minnesota. He kept his word even though many people in todays society would have just broken their word. He ended up coaching the best team in NCAA history with 10 championships in 12 years. He taught his players about things on and off the court like how to be honest and be true to yourself.
Scott Rudoloph
period-4
For outside reading, I read Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and Oliver Relin. It is the story of Greg Mortenson, a former mountain climber, who fails to climb the mountain K2, but then finds a cause to devote his life to: building schools for kids in Pakistan, Afganistan and surrounding areas. This book is filled with conflicts, internal and external. The major ones would probably be the internal conflict Greg has with himself and the external conflict between him and his goal to build schools and the Taliban government. This book is very repeating in the way that Greg will get motivation and will be gaining momentum and then all of a sudden, a big brick wall stops him. There are so many of these, but I will just explain the first major one. After he failed to climb the mountain K2, Greg Mortenson wanders in to a small village called Korphe. He soon learns that the children do not have a school, but they sit outside in a field and determindly try to learn. That gives Greg the idea to build a school for them. He goes home motivated and eager to begin raising money for the school, when the first brick wall comes. He tries everything he can and through a series of lucky events, he eventually acquires enough money to build a school. He goes back to Pakistan and buys supplies and travels all the way to Korphe and then he is stopped by another wall, this one being the fact that it is too cold to build a school now, and there is no bridge to get the supplies over to the village. This is basically how the entire book is, but the conflicts are resolved by Greg's determination and pure luck with generous donations and other things. The other major conflict is the external conflict between Greg and the Afganistan government, the Taliban. They are always in conflict with Greg's morales, but they become a bigger problem after 9/11 and as the war is beginning. The Taliban hate Greg and his determination to build schools, and they believe the only way to peace is violence and terrorism. Greg is the opposite and he is a strong advocate for using education to promote peace. He believes that if children keep attending the Taliban's terrorism schools, then we will never reach pace and there will be a never ending cycle of genereation after generation of uneducated people whos lives revolve around war and fighting. Greg's approach to the problem is this: if we educate these kids, especially the girls, they will be educated and can then pass it down through their children and grandchildren and hopefully break the cycle of terrorism and create peace. This conflict continues to be resolved by Greg Mortenson through the many schools he has built in the Pakistan and Afganistan areas.
Lucy Manning-3rd Period
I read Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones for my outside reading assignment. Since this novel revolves around the brutal murder of a young teenage girl, it is packed with conflicts- both internal and external. The major conflict begins December 6, 1973, when 14 year old Susie Salmon is lured into an underground structure by her neighbor, George Harvey. It is there that Mr. Harvey rapes and kills Susie, beginning a chain reaction of all conflicts. The main problem is considered external. Susie's father is the first person to suspect George Harvey of his daughter's murder, and continues to chase his suspicious neighbor throughout the novel. Mr. Salmon is determined to put the monster behind bars, but nobody believes that their sweet neighbor could ever lay a hand on Susie. In the end, the others discover that Mr. Salmon was right all along, but it is too late, and that Mr. Harvey has already escaped to continue his crimes in other states. Since Mr. Harvey had fled, this conflict is never resolved. However, the conflict that Mr. Salmon has within himself is resolved. The reader knows that Susie's father will never fully recover from his daughter's death, but he seems to be at peace with himself as he realizes that Susie is now in a better place.
Jana Warren
3rd Period
I read the book Miley Cyrus Miles to go. There where a lot of conflicts in the book but I chose to write about the experience Miley had in middle school with mean girls. When Miley was being middle school one of her best friends, who Miley does not name, started hanging out with some popular girls from their sixth grade class. Miley started to hang out with them too but she always felt uncomfortable by the way the girls looked at her and said stuff to her. The girls would whisper right in front of Miley about her outfit or hair. As Miley got more uncomfortable she stopped hanging out with them. Miley basically had no friends at school. The only friends she had were her cheerleading friends and that was the only place she felt comfortable. During school one day at school the girls shoved Miley into a bathroom and locked her in there for hours. Then the girls started treating her too. When Miley started to become worried she called a friend from cheerleading and told her about it and her parents over heard and called the principal. It only made matters worse the girls then treated to beat her up in the cafeteria. Thankfully the principal was on the look out and stopped it. After that the girls left Miley alone and soon after Miley got the role Hannah Montana.
Alex Riddle 1st
Caroline Austin, 1st period, Twilight.
For my outside reading book I chose, Twilight, from the Twilight Saga. It is a love story about a group of vampires, the Cullen’s, and a girl named Bella Swan. This dramatic tale takes place in Forks, Washington, a very small and isolated town where Bella moves in with her dad and meets the Cullen’s.
When Bella first spots the Cullen clan she immediately finds that something is not quite right about them; they are not normal high school students from Washington. She notices one brother in particular, Edward. The suspicions only get more and more intriguing when Edward becomes Bella’s biology lab partner. He was paid close attention to her and was regarding her with hostility.
At lunch one day, Edward asks Bella about “theories” about him. She then tells him that Jacob Black, a family friend, has told her about vampires in the area. Later that day, Edward saves her from being hit by a car in the school parking lot. She then figures that Edward and the Cullen clan are the vampires that Jacob was referring to.
Edward and Bella become close friends and eventually more than friends. This creates external and internal conflict. The external conflict is that Bella and Edward both want to be together, but he is so attracted to her that he might loose control and bite her, turning Bella into a vampire. The internal conflict is knowing they ant to be with each other, but they know that it will not work if one is a vampire and the other is not.
Sarah Seawell
4th period
For this outside reading assignment, I read Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult. I thought that tis was a really fantastic book because it challenges how we all think about Jesus Christ and also shows us how Catholic, Jewish, atheist people think.
Father Michael is a catholic priest who is called in to a prison to be a spiritual advisor and meets Shay ( well... remeets Shay). Father Michael was actually on the jury that convicted Shay to life in prison so when he sees shay , it opens up old wounds and in time, starts to want to help Shay in any way to apologize for convicting him to death. We start to see that Shay really is an odd ball. He talks alot like Jesus, in that really ryhmeing, booksmart way yet Shay isn't religious. He then heals Shay of AIDS and brings a bird back to life just like Jesus. He also does alot of other odd things but they aren't as odd as these. We see that Shay wants to give up his heart to help June Nelsons other daughter, Claire. The problem is he is supposed to die by being injected which will KILL him and his organs. So we then meet Maggie who is a lawyer and helps Shay legally get the right to donate his organs. June finds out about this and know her daughter knows that her daughter needs the hart but she doesn't want it to come from a convicted criminal . So she either has the choice to let Claire die or have the heart of a criminal beat inside of her. Father Michael 's convicted is if Shay is really the Messiah and when he finds out the truth of Emily and her dads death, the fact that he actually convicted him of murder. In the end, most of the characters conflicts are resolved. Please read this book!
I read Enders Game by Orson Scott Card. This book has a lot of internal and external conflicts, i am going to talk about one of the internal conflicts. Ender Wiggin's is the books main character, he is a genius, bred by the government in hopes of saving the human race from aliens. The conflict starts in battle school which is where they send all of the genius's to become soldiers.
Ender is special though they think he can lead the army to victory against the aliens. As soon as he gets to the battle school the teachers set him apart from everyone else. They make it so he has the hardest time he can and show's him that no adult is ever going to help him in life. Every time he starts making friends or gets used to the way things are they promote him to get him away from his friends or make the other kids mad at him.
Eventually he becomes a commander and gets his own "army". But to make it more difficult they give him really bad kids. The way the battle school works is there are army's and the armies fight each other with fake guns. Enders army quickly became the best one winning every game they play and they played more than any other army. The adults make it harder for Ender than any other commander and eventually he doesn't know whether he should give up or keep playing the adults stupid game. The internal conflict is eventually resolved when the adults set up the battle more unfairly than ever. It was two army's versus Ender and the battle field was set up in the other teams advantage. Instead of giving up Ender cheats just like the adults and wins.
I chose to read the novel True Believer by Nicholas Sparks for outside reading. Jeremy Marsh, a skeptical New York scientific journalist who has a famous reputation of solving supernatural mysteries, has a lead on a story of mysterious lights, thought to be ghost, in Boone Creek, North Carolina; and has been asked to come down and solve the mystery. What Jeremy marsh didn’t expect to discover down south was the beautiful and stubborn librarian, Lexie Darnell, whom he falls hopelessly in love with. The major conflict can be considered both internal and external, since the conflict is how Jeremy can both win Lexie's heart and find a way to be with her and figure out the mystery of the lights in the week that his trip is there for. In the beginning, both Jeremy and Lexie thought they could never fall in love with a complete stranger, after past bad love experiences. Jeremy had the woman of his dreams until she divorced him since he couldn't have children and she wanted a big family. Lexie had fallen in love with out-of-town men twice and got seriously hurt after both relationships, so she had a guard around her heart. The mystery of the lights kept bringing the two closer and closer, and both were unsure how to handle these new found feelings for each other. Jeremy wanted nothing but to be with Lexie but he didn't know how to be with her and he kept beating himself up on trying to figure out how to make it work. Lexie was so sure that Jeremy would leave and never come back, but she loved him also and didn't want to get hurt like she had been with the other two guys she fell in love with. They had moments of true love together, and moments that were just fighting and arguments. The lights were a mere distraction for Jeremy and he did figure out the mystery after he realized he was in love once again. Jeremy and Lexie were miserable apart, and Jeremy could stand it no longer so he decided to stay in Boone Creek with Lexie. This love story is enthralling and I highly recommend it if you like a good love story.
Tory Gunsten
4th period
I read Miley Cyrus's book Miles to Go and that book has lots of conflicts in it, but the one conflict that caught my eye the most was when Miley was in middle school she didn't really have any friends at all. She was always picked on and would recieve notes in her locker saying that she needed to be ready because they were going to hurt her after school or something really mean so they would intimidate her. She would always go home very upset but would never tell her parents because she knew that they would embarass her by showing up at school and making a big deal out of it. One day Miley got a note in her locker and it said that they were going to beat her up and as she was reading that note the group of girls came up to her locker but luckily the principal was watching them and espelled those girl and they have never worried Miley again and that was how the conflict resolved.
Emily Riley
1st period
I read Nicholas Sparks' "A BEND IN THE ROAD". Like most stories the conflicts of this novel are both internal and external. The main struggles, however, are the main character's internal ones. Miles Ryan is still trying to get over the death of his wife, Missy, when he meets Sarah Andrews. Sara is Miles' son's teacher and soon becomes the first person Miles has dated since Missy's fatal accident. Miles struggles with guilt, thinking that he is betraying Missy in some way. Jonah, Mile's son, is directly affected by this. Missy was hit by a car, but no one knows who the driver was. This consumes miles, and he keeps the evidence and facts in an envelope beside his bed. Jonah even said that when miles gets the envelope out he becomes upset and ignores jonah. As you can see the main conflict is miles' internal one in dealing with Missy's death.
Jordan Finizio
3rd Period
I read Marley and Me by John Grogan. The conflict in this book is, the worth repairing holes in walls, replacing landscape, and losing important mementos versus not keeping the heart of the Grogan family, Marley, around. Marley was a crazy dog that chewed his way through everything. The Grogan’s discovered this when they left Marley alone for a couple hours and when they came back the house looked normal on the outside but inside was chaos. Marley chewed the dry wall, turned things over, and was considered a class five hurricane. However the Grogan’s did not give Marley away. Even if Marley was the world’s worst dog, Marley was theirs and they loved him, which internally solved the conflict. Marley showed the Grogan family love, for example Marley being there for Jenny when she miscarriage and being man’s best friend to John. Marley’s love outweighed the mess and catastrophes the Grogans would live with forever if they kept Marley.
win johnson
3rd period
For my outside reading I chose to read Son of the Mob:Hollywood Hustle by Gordon Korman. Vince,the main charecter, is unfortunately trapped in a life style he doesn't wont to live. Film school in California seems to be the perfect escape for Vince until the dreaded lifestyle of a mobster catches up to him. Vince's main exernal conflict is his brother Tommy and a few of "the uncles." Tommy convinces Vince that he is going strait and is finally trying to make a honest living for once in his life. Behind Tommy's poker face is one of the most cold hearted scams ever. Lets just say he takes advantage of foreign exchange students. An example of an internal conflict is when Vince can't decide between his girlfriend or a way prettier and more fun girl. In the end everything is straitened out and he makes the right decission.
“The Notebook”, by Nicholas Sparks, is the tale of two mismatched teenagers who fall in love. Noah Calhoun is a country boy who works at the local lumber yard for a very modest living. Allie Hamilton is the daughter of a high society family who are vacationing for the summer in Noah’s hometown. The night that they met that summer was the start of their troubled relationship. Allie’s wealthy family disapproved of Noah because of his low social class. Noah’s status was a huge obstacle to overcome, one that kept the two apart. Allie’s parents forced her to leave Noah behind and forget about their summer together. Her mother even went as far as to hide all of the letters that Noah sent to her, all 365 of them. Allie’s mother thought that this would help Allie to forget Noah and would keep her in her own social class. She went off to college in New York and soon met the man of her parent’s dreams. Days before she was about to marry him, she is reminded of Noah and goes back to visit him. When the two met again their love rekindled like a burning flame. Allie then learned that Noah had never really forgotten about her, nor did he ever stop loving her. After battling with all of her conflicting emotions, Allie chooses to follow her own heart instead of what her social class is demanding of her.
Summer Taylor
3rd Period
I read Eragon by Christopher Paolini. Eragon is a poor farm boy who lives with his uncle and cousin in a town called Carvahall. One morning when he goes out to hunt for food, he comes across a ‘stone’ which turns out to really be a dragon’s egg. A dragon quickly hatches and Eragon names the dragon, Saphira, and becomes its rider. Every dragon rider gets magical powers and has a link to their dragon’s mind, so they can communicate with each other.
King Galbatorix rules Alagaesia with the help of his own dragon. The king sent creatures called the Ra`zac to find the new dragon, Saphira, and its rider. The Ra`zac find and torture Eragon’s uncle, Garrow, to try to get information about the dragon, but he did not know anything about the dragon. Garrow dies due to the excessive torture.
Eragon tries to avenge his uncle’s death by tracking down and killing the Ra`zac. He has help from an old ‘story teller’ named Brom who helps him learn about fighting techniques, magic, and dragons. Eragon and Brom are attacked by the Ra`zac. A person named Murtgh comes and saves them, but one of the Ra`zac throws a dagger at Eragon, and Brom jumps in front of the dagger and is hit instead. He soon dies.
Eragon then has visions about a elf woman imprisoned in a city called Gil`ead. He decides to go and save her. He is captured at Gil`ead by a shade named Durza. The food he gets there is drugged so that he can not use his powers, so he fasts from eating the food and his power returns. He then rescues an elf woman, escapes from Gil`ead and goes to the Varden, a rebellion against the king. The Varden is attacked by the king’s men, but Eragon kills Durza and the Varden wins the battle.
The two main conflicts in this story are: 1) Eragon vs. the Ra`zac, and 2) Eragon vs. Durza. These conflicts are both external. The first conflict is not fully resolved until the third book, but the second conflict is resolved by Eragon killing Durza.
Ryan Smith
English I
3rd Period
I read Son of the Mob by Gordon Korman for my outside reading book. This book contained bunches of conflict. The main character, Vince has to deal with conflict both internal and external the whole book. His dad controls a mob. This mob does some very bad things. The people who work for his dad always seem to get Vince into trouble. All this conflict that Vince has to do with is all around him. Everywhere he goes, it seems like the mob is always somehow in his life. The major internal conflict Vince deals with is learning to live with their ways. He always feels bad about using something stolen or getting stuff for free. He has to overcome this so he can live in this mob family. The main external conflict for Vince is surviving. The stuff the mob gets him into could cause him to go to jail or even be killed. The whole story Vince fights his way through conflicts. Hoping he will one day be free from them.
Dale Delaney
3rd period
Melanie Ng
Third period
I read Nicholas Sparks's "The Last Song". It was about a seventeen-year-old girl, Ronnie, who fell in love with Will, who is heading off to Vanderbilt at the end of August. This summer, Ronnie and her ten-year-old brother, Jonah, went to live in North Carolina with their dad, Steve. At first, Ronnie has a bad attitude about being with her dad because she and her dad used to play the piano together a lot and then once he moved out, she was angry at him for having an affair, so she swore never ever again to play the piano. She was also having a bad attitude about leaving her friends and not knowing anyone, but after Ronnie's new friend Blaze gets her caught shoplifting, she finds a turtle nest in need, and she meets Will, a aquarium volunteer, and they start seeing each other regularly. They spent most of their days together, while Jonah and Steve work on a stained glass window for the church down the road that was burned last year. It is very important to Steve that he finish the window, because the window has sentimental memories for him of his childhood. As Ronnie and Will progress in their relationship, Ronnie also develops a tighter bond with her father. The night that the turtles hatch, Steve starts coughing up blood, and Ronnie takes him to the hospital, where she learns that Steve has stomach cancer that has metastasized to his pancreas and lungs. She understands that her father probably will not make it to Christmas, but Jonah does not. As the summer ends, and Will goes to Vanderbilt and Jonah goes back to New York with his mother, Ronnie learns that her dad did not have the affair - her mom did. Ronnie decides to stay in North Carolina to take care of her dad in his final months. As the book does not talk much about the central conflicts being Steve versus the cancer and Ronnie versus herself, we do realize that towards the end of the novel, he does pass away, but not before Ronnie completes the song that Steve was struggling to write on the piano. Ronnie decides to honor her dad and audition at Julliard, while Will moves to New York to continue seeing Ronnie and to start college in Columbia for the spring semester.
I red Son of The Mob by Gordon Korman. Thi sstory is packed with conflict from internal to external its everywhere. One of the main conflicts is where Vince wants to stay out of his fathers business but he can't seem to keep from helping his fathers clients. Another form of conflict would be People getting killed, beat up, and Vince's love life. In the end Vince finds a way ou tof this wreched business and starts his way again on a normal life style. Until the next book, which you will have to read for yourself.
I read The Wedding by Nicholas Sparks. It is a story based on a couples relationship. After Wilson and Jane's children leave their house, they are left with nothing to talk about or experience. Their short conversations and walks are leading to a divorce. Wilson battles with internal conflict in improving their marriage. Inside, he wonders why he can't have anything in common with his wife. He follows a list of short rules to help mend couples. The protagonist visits an elderly man to guide him through the trouble. Wilson also experiences external conflict with his wife. He is having trouble talking and loving her. With help and guidence by Noah, the elderly man, the relationship gets better. This book teaches the troubles of carrying on a relationship, but can be fixed with work. It includes many examples of conflict to add the plot to the story.
Langley Mills 1st period
The internal conflict is probubly one of the more important ones. Vince can't stand how his fathers people cut of fingers, beat up, or kill people who don't pay their money. this leads Vince to get involved into his fathers family business "vending machines" which is really like a gang. From all this Vince finally overcomes in the end to try a normal life. But he can't have a normal life when his father is a gang lord. even at a football game he is affected. none of the other players will tackle Vince because if they injured him his dad would kill them. Their is alot of conflict in this story and it a must read
1st period, phillip brinn
For my outside reading I read Son of the Mob by Gordon Korman. It has conflict externally and internally throughout the book. The main conflict is that Vince wants to get away from the mob or the “vending machine business” as his father and mother calls it. As a teen-ager Vince’s dad tells him that he will try to keep his Mob work away from his son’s life, but that didn’t happen. Vince is stuck with the mob so throughout the book he is involved with the conflict of the mob. He also has an internal conflict of how he can get away from the mob and what he will do if he leaves his life behind. With his house bugged by the FBI there not much to do around his house so all his social life existed outside his house. To create further drama, his girlfriend’s father is the FBI agent consumed with bringing down his father. The conflict is not really resolved, but he does learn how to balance family, a girlfriend, the FBI and the mob.
Cam Caprara
1st period
I read the book Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy. This book is about an elite international swat team specializing in hostage situations. The team is lead by veteran John Clark. The team faces many challenges against terrorist. It seems the terrorists get smarter through every mission John Clark and his team complete. After about three missions in a row Clark and his team begin to wonder whether these terrorist attacks were linked and what drove these terrorists out of hiding. As the story progresses Clark finds out that something way bigger than terrorist attacks is happening and the fate of the human race will fall into his teams hands. The conflict is mainly external because of the physical stress the swat team goes through in the missions but there is also internal conflict from the mental stress the team gets from killing.
I read Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult. There are allot of conflicts in this story but the main external conflict would be peter and the witnesses testifying against him. Some of the witnesses are testifying against him saying he murdered ten people and attempting murder to nineteen other people while the other witnesses are saying that he did it because he went mental and was using the shooting as a self defense against bullying. And that he didn’t even know he was shooting people at the time it happened. This external conflict is solved when he gets proven guilty and is in jail for life. The main internal conflict is Josie vs. peter and the popular people (her boyfriend and her new friends). Josie has been friends with peter since they were little but she eventually found him not cool enough to hang out with him so she found new popular friends. But later at the end of the book the reader finds out that in the end she shot her popular boyfriend mark and picked peter over mark. She was having internal conflicts over picking her old best friends or her new friends/boyfriend. Melissa Rudolph 4rth Period
i read the da vinci code by dan brown, and it has a internal and external conflict. the external conflict is between our protaginists Robert Langdon, and sophie Neveu, who are trying to recover the secret of the priory of sion, before they get caught by the police, and before their antagonists find it. after going to who they thought was a reliable source, who turnes out to be the murderer of the priory of sion, they flee to Louvre, where langdon discovers the resting place of the grail. the internal conflict with sophie Neveu where she has to deal with the shocking secret she found out about her grandfather, but after accepting that her grandfather has faults, she forgives him, but its a little too late, because her realization comes after her grandfathers murder. these are the two main conflicts in the da vinci code
Josh Ewy
third period
I read The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. The main conflict is the death of the narrator, Suzie Salmon. Suzie was murdered by her neighbor, George Harvey on December 6, 1973. There were not many events leading to this external conflict, because it was in the very beginning of the book. Suzie's death affects many people, especially her family. Because of the murder, Suzie's family becomes very distant from each other and Abigail, Suzie's mother, moves to California and leaves her family behind. The death also greatly affects Suzie's father, Jack. Jack starts to gravitate toward his office and spend less and less time with his family. He can not stop thinking about Suzie. When Jack has a heart attack, Abigail flies home and soon decides to stay, therfore bringing the family back together. Lindsay, Suzie's sister gets married and has a baby named Abigail Suzanne. And one day, a man finds Suzie's old charm bracelet and shows his wife who says, "This little girl's grown up by now." "Almost. Not quite." Suzie replies.
Holden Arthur
4th period
I read the book True Believer by Nicholas Sparks. Jeremy marsh, a New York journalist, is going down to Boone Creek, NC to investigate some lights that are supposedly the ghosts of the dead in Cedar Creek cemetery. Little does Jeremy know he will also meet the love of his life in this small town. The local librarian, Lexie, finds herself falling in love with this charming, handsome, irresistible man that she's know only a few days. Lexie has an internal conflict here because she scared of becoming close to Jeremy because she knows he will be leaving shortly and she doesn't want to get hurt. The external conflict is Jeremy live in New York and Lexie lives in NC so they can't be together unless one of them moves. This conflict is resolved when Jeremy realizes that he would rather live his life in Boone Creek, NC with Lexie than live in New York having an empty space in his life. This change in these two people’s lives will also affect Jeremy's parent’s lives. Now they have to come a longer way to visit him and it will also affect Lexie's family because they have a new family member.
Jack Sides
4th
I decided to read My Sister's Keeper but Jodi Picoult after my friend recommended it to me. There is internal and external conflict in this book, but the main conflict which the book is centered around is internal.Anna, the youngest in her family, has to decide whether she wants to fight for the rights to her own body or save her sister Kate. Being diagnosed at an early age with leukemia and none of her family being a genetic match, Kate's parents decided to conceive Anna to be available for transplants or anything else Kate would need. By the time they are teenagers, both sisters are tired of being regulars ar the hospital. When their mother assumes that Anna will give Kate one of her kidneys, Anna fights back getting an attorney to fight for the rights to her own body. This decision tears her family apart. Her parents can't decide whose side to take or who is right and their oldest son, Jesse, goes completely out of control. When it seems the family will completely fall apart, Anna wins her trial. Even so her sister is still very sick and needs a kidney trasplant from a perfect genetic match while her sister is no longer available. Now I cannot explain the rest of the book without giving the ending away, so I recommend you read it to find out for yourself.
Hadley Bryan
1st period
I read the book Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger. In 1988, Bissinger followed the Permian Panther football team, documenting all the events that took place during that football season. He also documented off the field actions and describing what it was like to be in a ‘real’ American town. Of course, there is always some type of conflict going on. The Black vs. White conflict, which was external, occurred with the football team and also in Odessa itself.
The big deal in Odessa with blacks and whites started in 1980. Laurence Hurd, a black minister, came to Odessa. He was amazed by the segregation in Odessa. Even its schools were still segregated, ten years after a federal suit had been filed against the school district and 20 years after the Brown v. Board of Education. After learning this information about the segregation of schools in Odessa, Hurd demanded a desegregated, to end racial segregation, school system. After the desegregated school system, football would later become blacks claim to fame in Odessa.
When Bissinger went to Odessa in 1988, nigger was a commonly used word for black people during this time. However, this word had about 12 different uses in Odessa. The people who used this word weren’t afraid of using it in public, but there were some whites who found the word offensive. Reverend J.W. Hanson, a black minister on the Southside of town, used a philosophy for helping blacks get along with the whites. You could sum up his philosophy by saying if you were black you never wanted to ‘rock the boat’ of any whites.
The Panthers football team had a special coach for blacks, Nate Hearne. Although there was one white head coach, the special coach was designed for when a controversy involving a black player occurred. Boobie Miles, the star running back for Permian, gets hurt in the beginning of the season. In the meantime, while Boobie is in rehab, a new running back takes his place, Chris Comer. He does an outstanding job in Boobies place. After recuperating from his injury, Boobie thinks it’s his time again, but Comer is doing such a great job, Boobie is benched, because of his bad temper, threatens to quit the team. None of the ‘real’ coaches tried to stop Boobie, because of him being black and feeling that all blacks were like Boobie. So here comes the special coach, Nate Hearne, trying to reason with Boobie. Although Boobie eventually quits the team, this is an example of where whites don’t even care about what happens to black.
Because this book ends at the end of the end of the Permian football season, the external conflict between blacks and whites is never resolved in the book. However since the book is a true story, then this conflict in obviously resolved in Odessa today.
H.G. Bissinger experienced many feelings when he went to Odessa, but the racial conflict was the worst he has ever seen.
I read Secret Life of Bee's by Sue Monk Kidd. Lilly Owens is the protagonist in the book and she was brutally abused by her father, T-Ray Owens. T-Ray's former wife was killed and ever since has taken his anger out on Lilly because the reader will find out later in the book that Lilly killed her mother. T-Ray abused Lilly by kicking and hitting her until she finally hitchhiked to Tilburon, South Carolina with her nanny, Rosaleen. The conflict between Lilly and her father is considered external conflict because it is a struggle between the protagonist and another character in the novel. Rosaleen and Lilly hitchhiked to a pink house owned by beekeepers, May, June, & August Boatright. There they worked as beekeepers and they were given a room to stay in called the "honey house". Later in the story, T-Ray finds Lilly at the Boatrights by tracing her phone calls and demands she leaves with him to return to their peach farm. He kicks Lilly, to the Boatright's dismay and August convinces T-Ray to let Lilly live with them. He approves with much dismay and as he was leaving, Lilly runs out to his truck and asked him if she killed her mother and he said she did but accidently and it wasnt her fault. T-Ray telling Lilly that it wasnt her fault ended the conflict and T-Ray leaving her at the Boatright's house also ended it because as far as the reader knows, Lilly and T-Ray never saw each other again.
Death, loss, grief, healing, companionship, love, danger, abuse, lies, passion – Nicholas Sparks’ novel, The Guardian, owns them all, and releases their power at the most heart-wrenching, suspenseful moments. It’s a book of conflict, a book of pain, and a book of finally deserved peace. It begins with death and from it a new beginning, and ends in the same fashion. It’s the part in between that conceals the true shock: the truth behind a psychopathic man’s obsession with the protagonist, Julie. His past remains shrouded by time until the last, heart-pounding pages break through the mystery . . . he killed his Dad, his Mom. He sent two innocent boys to juvie by stabbing himself. He murdered his college roommate. He murdered his wife, and then disappeared in murder, killing a random gay orphan who no one would miss and whose identity he could assume. This man, always known as Richard Franklin, born Robert Bonham, was a stalker.
He and Julie went out a few times before she ended it, but he never really stopped. Julie fell in love with another man – her best friend Mike. Robert wasn’t fazed. Julie Barenson, the woman who shared initials with his dead wife Jessica and looked so like her, was meant to be with him. He knew it. And he’d break them up, they couldn’t last . . . but it kept lasting. He got Mike thrown in jail. Julie stood by him, and he got out. It was frustrating, too time consuming. No, Mike would have to be removed from the picture . . . But how? Julie knew he was watching her. She alerted the police and ran away. The suspicious near-murder of Julie’s co-worker Andrea hadn’t helped either . . . No, the police, Julie, Mike, the town: everyone knew what he was. Robert had to tread carefully. But he also had to get Julie. Murder became the only real option, right?
And it all came together in a climactic scene on the beach: Singer, Julie’s dog - the last gift her husband gave her before his death – poisoned. Mike, shot, not dead yet. Police officer, brutally beaten, clinging to life. Robert stalking Julie over the dunes, after everything he so long desired. Another police officer coming, too late, to help. And then Singer, in death, rushes in, takes two shots to the chest, and saves his owner, the woman heaven sent him to protect. The officer shoots, and Robert falls. Singer stops moving. Tears fall in the sand. Ambulances whir away.
Two months later: Mike moved in, everyone’s alive and doing better. Singer, not forgotten, but a new puppy now is in the home. After years of conflict and months of nightmare, their world finds peace again. And Nicholas Sparks gets to put down his pencil and think to himself: the end.
Logan Beyer
3rd Period
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
The story starts with Allie Nelson, a socialite engaged to a wealthy Raleigh lawyer. However, she is constantly reminded of that young boy who stole her heart fourteen years earlier. Noah Calhoun is a southern boy, home from war and restoring his New Bern home to keep his mind off one thing… Allie. Their lives kept them apart, Noah to war and Allie to college but neither Allie nor Noah could forget their summer together. So, when she returns to New Bern the two fall in love again.
The conflict of the story appears when Allie is faced with the decision to continue her engagement with Lon or marry the love of her life, Noah. Ultimately she chooses Noah and they get married, have children, and grow old together. Their love remains strong and passionate until Allie is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Slowly she slips away from Noah and into oblivion. Seeing his wife with this condition hurt Noah deeply but he was determined to get her back. Everyday he read to her the story of their life. Both conflicts would be considered internal. We are lead to believe that together they slipped away together to heaven.
I read Son of the Mob by Gordon Korman. It is a very good book. The story is basically about a guy named Vince and he is trying to untangle the spider web the mob has made. The conflict is both internal and external. Vince and his dad's "business" are the main conflict. Vince keeps having to deal with the mob like when he is on a date with his girlfriend and the date is ruined by him finding a dead body in the back of his car
I chose to read Son of the Mob: Hollywood hustle by Gordan Korman. This was an exellent novel. The reanon why I enjoyed it(and the reason you enjoy any book) is because it was packed with bumps, twists, internal, external and any kind of conflict you can think of. In a nutshell this book is the story of how Vince tries to escape the unlawful life he was born into. Vince moves as far away from his father's'vending machine business" as he possibly can. He leaves New York city and travels all the way to California in hopes of leading a completely diferent life. However, if his mobster brother Tommy would have had the decency to just let him go there would have been no story. Vince allows Tommy to come with him because Tommy tells him he wants to come clean and wash his hands of the mob. Since Tommy is a "to the bone" member of the mafia he has exellent lying skills and a scam behind it. Tommy is just trying to make a little extra dough out on the west coast. The conflict between Vince and the mob is resolved when the whole "family" pack and move back to the East coast.
I read the novel The Lovely Bones. This novel contains many conflicts, internal and external. The major internal conflict is with the main character Susie. She was a 14 year old girl who was raped and killed by her neighbor Mr. Harvey. As she is up in heaven watching over her friends and family on Earth she wants to be there with them. She wants to finish living her life and be like all of the others on Earth. As Susie does want what she will never have there are other problems going on Earth. Her family and friends are missing Susie very much and like Susie their lives will never be the same. Susie's father is the one who thought Mr. Harvey was his daughter's murderer but, no one believed him until it was too late. Mr. Harvey had already gone to another state to finish off some of his other sick crimes. Susie's mother also had a hard time dealing with her daughter's death. Her mother ended up having a mental breakdown, leaving her family, and moving to CA. for a few years. But she ended up coming back once she found out that her husband had a heart attack. When Susie sees all the people and how their lives have changed just from that one event in the cornfield she realizes that she can never change anything that happened and that she has just got to be happy and know that she is in a better place.
Campbell Huddle
4th period
I read Eragon, The conflict was that there is a boy in an evil empire that finds a dragons egg. he doesn’t know that there are people in the empire who want the egg very badly, they want it so badly that the brutally burn, and kill his uncle. He realizes that the dragon egg can be used to help defeat the evil empire he goes through many battles with his dragon, and then finally makes it over the mountain range where the rebels live he spends many nights there preparing for the battle that is to come. Finally the battle arrives. He fights long and hard, until he finally comes to battle with the emperors best servant he defeats him but leavers the battle with bad scars it is a temporary win, but soon the emperor will be at it again... this is where the book leaves of into another book. Hope to read that book soon!!
After reading My Sister's Keeper, by Jodi Picoult, I changed my view on cancer patients. Cancer doesn't only take time and money, it also takes emotional stability. Anna, a little girl born to save her sister's (Kate's) life, is upset that she doesn't have control over what happens to her body. She takes things on a dramatic roll, and hires a lawyer, Campbell Alexander, to sue her parents for the right to her own body. Later, in the story, we find out that Kate asked Anna not to go through with the kidney transplant. Anna wants to help Kate, so she sued her parents to help Kate. This is the main conflict in the story. The fight between Jesse and his parents are also considered a conflict. Jesse turns out to be a drinker, drug user, theif, and avid burner of inanimate objects. In the future, Jesse straightens out, and ends up being a policeman. Another conflict is the curiosity of Cambpell's breakup with Julia, the Guardian ad litem, after their high school graduation. It turns out that Cambpell was in a wreck and didn't want Julia to find out that he has developed epilepsy, which is why he has a service dog, named Judge. We find this out when Campbell has a seizure in the middle of Anna's testimony in court. There are many conflicts in this story, which is why I found it so interesting. I can't wait to read more of Picoult's books.
Taylor Ezzell
1st Period
I read Size Twelve Is Not Fat by Meg Cabot, which is about an ex popstar and how she follows her intuition about a killer. The major conflict was Heather trying to figure out who the killer was and at the same time, trying to convince everybody there was a murder in the first place and trying to save her own neck.
The conflict was both external and internal in ways. It was external, obviously, because Heather almost gets killed twice and has a violent scuffle at the ending with the villain. It's also internal because Heather is trying to prove to herself that she isn't just a crazy, washed up popstar, that she actually has a brain.
This conflict actually affects a lot of Heather's friends. The killer seriously injures Heather's ex boyfriend's head, hurts one of the janitors very badly from an elevator, kills two students, and much more.
The external conflict is resolved by the killer being killed, preventing more deaths of students. The internal conflict was a little more complicated though. Heather feels proud of herself for catching the villain and proving herself, however, nobody else is really happy that she put her life in danger. Throughout the whole book, Heather begins to realize that there is more to her than a good voice.
Sarah Albritton
1st Period
I read The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and it has a lot of internal conflicts, but the biggest conflict is Gatsby trying to receive affection and love from Daisy. In the early years of Gatsbys life he meets Daisy Buchanan and they fall in love but he is sent off to war and she eventually marries another man that she knows and when Gatsby return he is shocked. To try and get her attention he is always having huge parties hoping that one day she will show up but she never does. Eventually a new neighbor moves in, Nick Carraway, and he becomes very interested in Gatsbys parties and is eventually invited to one. He becomes close with Gatsby but still has many unanswered questions about him. He finds out that Gatsby has a thing for Daisy and Nick is Daisy's cousin. Nick sets up secret dates for Daisy and Gatsby but since Gatsby is so unusual Daisy decides to leave him and leaves the country along with her husband and Gatsby is murdered shortly afterward. Nick decides to move back to Minnesota after all the drama that went on.
Nate Staskelunas
I read Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. Heathcliff’s love for Catherine pushes him to almost recreate himself from his small status in the beginning to the status of a well respected gentleman, his drive to revenge himself for Catherine’s betrayal and Hindley’s abuse twists him into a life of hatred. Another Conflict is when Catherine is torn between her love for Heathcliff and her desire to have a good status, and another conflict is her decision to marry Edgar. Heathcliff is just a walking conflict. He disrupts everything, but thats what makes the book so interesting. :)
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