In the book Son by Lois Lowry, Claire has given birth to a child, named Gabe, after a complicated labor, he’s taken away and sent to stay with the other new children before she can see him. After being given a new job at the fish hatchery, she boards a ship and washes up in an entirely new community, where the people talk and act differently than her, she’s lost all of her memories of her life before, but piece by piece they come back, and she knows what she came here to do. Then, After a long two years of exercise and training, she’s able to climb out of the community, and even though she goes through a lot of trouble, she finally gets to her son. First, the main conflict in this story is that Claire knows who her son is, but she doesn’t have any idea where he is, so she wants to find him. Two of the hardest decisions that come from the conflict are, deciding if she wants to climb out of the community and lose the life she has, and trading her youth to the trade master so she can get into the new community.
First, Claire has to make the decision of climbing out of the community to find her son Gabe or staying and having a normal life. She decides to climb the mountain. It’s a hard climb, but she knows she can’t …show more content…
Once she gets to the top of the mountain, she meets the Trade master. He tells her that he will take her to her son if she trades him something valuable that she has. She doesn’t think that she has anything valuable, but it turns out he wants her to trade her youth. She knows if she doesn’t take the trade, something bad will happen to her, just like it did to Einar when he didn’t take the trade from the trade master many years ago. On page 259 it states, “Claire was to say yes to the man. There would be a price. She must pay it, Einar said. There would be no choice. To decline the man would bring terrible punishment upon her.” She has come too far to give up and settle for some horrible
First, Claire has to make the decision of climbing out of the community to find her son Gabe or staying and having a normal life. She decides to climb the mountain. It’s a hard climb, but she knows she can’t …show more content…
Once she gets to the top of the mountain, she meets the Trade master. He tells her that he will take her to her son if she trades him something valuable that she has. She doesn’t think that she has anything valuable, but it turns out he wants her to trade her youth. She knows if she doesn’t take the trade, something bad will happen to her, just like it did to Einar when he didn’t take the trade from the trade master many years ago. On page 259 it states, “Claire was to say yes to the man. There would be a price. She must pay it, Einar said. There would be no choice. To decline the man would bring terrible punishment upon her.” She has come too far to give up and settle for some horrible