Character's Internal Conflict

There are many books that write about character’s internal conflict. Authors write about the character’s personality that they show the reader how the character express themselves and the conflict in their internal personalities. Some authors develop this topic further more as they show the internal and the external of the character’s personalities in different time and in different situation to make it more interesting to readers. Names on a map by Benjamin Alire is one of them, Alire tries to express his characters in this book by many different ways. It show each character’s unique personality and also express the family dynamics through their thought and how they deal with this situation. There are many characters in his book and the main …show more content…
In the next 100 pages in the book, Gustavo shows his conflict personality and he started to express himself after grandmother died. Gustavo “ I was sitting on my bed. Numb as a stone- except that stone don’t cry.” He’s really sad because his grandmother, the one that he loved, passed away. The situation that the grandmother died make Gustavo scared and he express his emotional out of nowhere. He show his conflict that “ I don’t think I was crying just because my grandmother was dead. I was crying because I was afraid of going off to fight in Vietnam.” (255). He scared of dying and killing people if he serves in war (245). He’s not scare at all before, but after his grandmother passed away, he start to scare and the sadness just come and spread all over his body that he is numb as a rock (255). He never scare or cries of anything before. Grandmother might seem as a minor character in this book, however, seeing her pass away has wake Gustavo’s internal conflict personality up. His parent said that he hide the softness inside and he’s being tough outside. Gustavo “ You wonder about your grandmother and you suddenly whisper to yourself, She’s lucky. She’s dead now. She’s earned her rest. But you have not earned yours...you remember how you lost her and how you hated the pain that resided in your heart… Your grandfather lost everything (273)”. Gustavo think about himself and realize that his loss is nothing compare to other’s loss. He’s even say to himself that he’s only eighteen years old and the war is just like a football game that he’s a young player and try to get the ball down to the field (273). He doubt at himself and confuse that does he even fit in this world or not “You yearn to make it yours, this large and vast and beautiful world. He’s more complicated than ever now and he doesn’t know what he need to do or what he want to