The Boy In The Wooden Box Essay

What is conflict? Well conflict is a struggle or an opposition that people deal with on a daily basis. Responding to conflict positively is the best thing to do, but it can be challenging. People are different, some people respond to conflict negatively compared to positively, and some people don't really respond to conflict at all. You can't avoid conflict in your life, but the best way to respond to conflict is positively because if you have a positive outlook on things, conflict can decreases in your life, and help get rid of the conflict you currently deal with. There are many individuals that have dealt with conflict and told a story about how they dealt with their conflict. One example of a story with some positive conflict is” The Boy In The Wooden Box” This is a story about a jewish boy who dealt with discrimination and torture by the nazis. No german kid his age would talk to him. Jews …show more content…
He went through a lot including : he and his family being separated, living in concentration camps, getting very little to eat, and being tortured. He still responded to conflict positively because in the book he says “ I was trying to help, earlier that evening my friend Yossel and I carried an elderly person on a stretcher to the infirmary, but we made a dangerous miscalculation. We had waited too long at the infirmary with her before heading home and stayed out past our curfew, one of the guard had a rifle and aimed it at us, barely escaping the shots.” Ex : (Leyson 99) This shows that leon responds with positive conflict because he would put himself in danger to save an elderly women and even though that was an illegal crime. Leon was a brave kid who would not let the nazis take him down. He also has inspired many people that are going through rough times to respond to conflict positively because it almost always has the best