He has to put his feelings about the past away. The real conflict of the story is between Ralph and himself. Oh, God, Ralph, you're dead." I turned and walked down the steps and reached the street before he called: "Doug, is that you?" I did not answer, walking. Bang." His body shook with the impact. "You're dead. Doug is a shriveled old man, no longer powerful, no longer able to intimidate him. When he gets to Doug's house for the purpose of shooting him, he can't do it. But is this the conflict of the story? I don't think so. So you can see some examples of the "conflict" between the boys. The glove cost two dollars! No fair! Don't! But I raced back to Ralph's house with the glove and gave it to him. My brother didn't find out about his catcher's mitt and the statue for two weeks, and when he did he ditched me when we hiked out in farm country and left me lost because I was such a sap. "Well," said Ralph, "I'll give you my extra Tarzan statue if you'll give me that catcher's mitt." Fool! I thought. I was covered with bruises, both arms dark blue, mottled black, strange yellow bruises.Īnd I recalled one spring when I came to school in a new tweed knicker suit and Ralph knocking me down, rolling me in snow and fresh brown mud. It is tempting to see something of the conflict in this.after all, Ralph did the following: In this story, the main character, Doug, decides to kill his childhood arch-enemy for treating him badly as a kid. I am going to guess that you are basing your question on the second definition, and that what you are asking is very similar to the question "What is the conflict in the story "Utterly Perfect Murder." Conflict is a more common literary term for what I think you are asking. a crucial stage or turning point in the course of something "after the crisis the patient either dies or gets better".an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty "they went bankrupt during the economic crisis".There are two possible definitions for "crisis" that could apply to this story: I am not sure I have a completely clear idea of what you mean by "crisis," but I'll see what I can do.
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