Emily Luna
Cisco College
English 1302
22 March 2015
Conflict within To a God Unknown Delving into the world of literature one can dissect the rhymes and reasons of how novels strengthen their content through the uses of conflict to help develop the plot and overall theme. The novel To a God Unknown by John Steinbeck explores the use of the different types of conflicts to progress the plot and develop a theme. The first major conflict seen in the novel can be classified as a man against man conflict. Joseph has set off to California to pursue his fondness of the land and crosses paths with a man named Juanito who has agreed to help Joseph as a vaquero in return for his friendship. Juanito is seemingly a good hardworking man that would not …show more content…
What Burton believed to be evil was actually something amazing and good to Joseph and with the events following Joseph can further contest that the tree and other surroundings were indeed sacred. A personal conflict that seems to be caused by the killing of the tree appears after Elizabeth has her baby and then she and Joseph go to the ridge where Elizabeth slips and breaks her neck on the moss covered rock. Soon after returning with Elizabeth’s body Joseph sleeps with Rama and gives her his newborn son because of all the occurrences and the man he meets that sacrifices small …show more content…
So, upon returning back to the grove his objective is to only keep that rock alive as it is his last chance of finally saving the land. He spots an abandoned calf but the only thing Joseph sees is the life of the rock and nothing else. He would go far measures to keep the rock alive and he does. Joseph slices open the calf’s throat and nourishes the rock with the blood. All the water from the stream is dried up and Joseph’s hope fades. He looks to his horse for the life of the rock but the horse has vanished and Joseph is all out of hope. While leaving the grove he cuts himself and comes to the realization that he still has little hope. With all the events carried out with the massive amount of conflict Joseph has faced he cuts his own wrists open and replenishes the rock with his own blood. Soon after sacrificing himself the rain begins to fall. Joseph believes in the entirety of the universe, which felt far more basic and universal than the Church, which looks simply to one of God’s creations for their own benefit.”
Cisco College
English 1302
22 March 2015
Conflict within To a God Unknown Delving into the world of literature one can dissect the rhymes and reasons of how novels strengthen their content through the uses of conflict to help develop the plot and overall theme. The novel To a God Unknown by John Steinbeck explores the use of the different types of conflicts to progress the plot and develop a theme. The first major conflict seen in the novel can be classified as a man against man conflict. Joseph has set off to California to pursue his fondness of the land and crosses paths with a man named Juanito who has agreed to help Joseph as a vaquero in return for his friendship. Juanito is seemingly a good hardworking man that would not …show more content…
What Burton believed to be evil was actually something amazing and good to Joseph and with the events following Joseph can further contest that the tree and other surroundings were indeed sacred. A personal conflict that seems to be caused by the killing of the tree appears after Elizabeth has her baby and then she and Joseph go to the ridge where Elizabeth slips and breaks her neck on the moss covered rock. Soon after returning with Elizabeth’s body Joseph sleeps with Rama and gives her his newborn son because of all the occurrences and the man he meets that sacrifices small …show more content…
So, upon returning back to the grove his objective is to only keep that rock alive as it is his last chance of finally saving the land. He spots an abandoned calf but the only thing Joseph sees is the life of the rock and nothing else. He would go far measures to keep the rock alive and he does. Joseph slices open the calf’s throat and nourishes the rock with the blood. All the water from the stream is dried up and Joseph’s hope fades. He looks to his horse for the life of the rock but the horse has vanished and Joseph is all out of hope. While leaving the grove he cuts himself and comes to the realization that he still has little hope. With all the events carried out with the massive amount of conflict Joseph has faced he cuts his own wrists open and replenishes the rock with his own blood. Soon after sacrificing himself the rain begins to fall. Joseph believes in the entirety of the universe, which felt far more basic and universal than the Church, which looks simply to one of God’s creations for their own benefit.”