Discussing Conflict Over the past few weeks I’ve read three short stories. I'm going to be discussing the conflicts within the three short stories. Obviously conflicts occur being most likely the climax. Im going to describe the events and characteristics of the conflict.
Within Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” the story from the beginning hints to the conflict within the story. The opening scene shows kids picking up rocks to be used fatally during the end of the story. Fear is a heavy emotion coming off as waves from a crowd of nervous people waiting to pull a piece of paper out of a medium sized black box. There’s a small debate about whether or not a town is going to quit the lottery. Toward the end the character, Tessie, has drawn the black dot which means she dies by being stoned to death.
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Margot was born on Earth and has seen the sun. She has had opportunities that the other kids on Venus, a non sunny planet, have had making them jealous. Margot was locked into a closet while the moment she’d anticipated since she’s arrived to venus had come. While her being very angry she was released from the closet after the sun had come, but even with her being angry she forgave the other children and accepted their flowers. In Susan Glaspell’s “A Jury of Her Peers” the conflict may be hard to come across at first.
The conflict is that this gruop of people came to mrs. wright’s house to search it for evidence after she may had killed her husband. Two woman found evidence consisting of an empty bird cage and a dead canary found in a small box. Given the opportunity to show the mebn what they had discovered they didn’t show them. Instead, they frantically hid the bird and kept quiet. The group left with no evidence at all. In conclusion, conflict is a big thing in any story. The conflict is typically what the entire story is set around. The conflict should be interesting and attention grabbable to keep the reader reading and lost in the
Within Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” the story from the beginning hints to the conflict within the story. The opening scene shows kids picking up rocks to be used fatally during the end of the story. Fear is a heavy emotion coming off as waves from a crowd of nervous people waiting to pull a piece of paper out of a medium sized black box. There’s a small debate about whether or not a town is going to quit the lottery. Toward the end the character, Tessie, has drawn the black dot which means she dies by being stoned to death.
During …show more content…
Margot was born on Earth and has seen the sun. She has had opportunities that the other kids on Venus, a non sunny planet, have had making them jealous. Margot was locked into a closet while the moment she’d anticipated since she’s arrived to venus had come. While her being very angry she was released from the closet after the sun had come, but even with her being angry she forgave the other children and accepted their flowers. In Susan Glaspell’s “A Jury of Her Peers” the conflict may be hard to come across at first.
The conflict is that this gruop of people came to mrs. wright’s house to search it for evidence after she may had killed her husband. Two woman found evidence consisting of an empty bird cage and a dead canary found in a small box. Given the opportunity to show the mebn what they had discovered they didn’t show them. Instead, they frantically hid the bird and kept quiet. The group left with no evidence at all. In conclusion, conflict is a big thing in any story. The conflict is typically what the entire story is set around. The conflict should be interesting and attention grabbable to keep the reader reading and lost in the