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Examples Of Conflicts In Short Stories

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What is a short story without a conflict or two? Conflicts are what make the short stories intriguing and alluring, hence an author is credited to the extent he/she brings out their conflicts in their works. Innumerable short stories such as, “A letter from Gaza”, After twenty years and The scarlet ibis are prominent of the abundance and accumulation of conflicts stocked in them. Therefore, a list of internal and external conflicts will be conferred in details on the short stories mentioned earlier and also examples will also be included. Like many other short stories, a letter from Gaza is written in a way that captures the readers and amazes them due to the bountiful conflicts introduced. One of the conflicts very familiar to anyone taken over by literature is the inner conflict faced by the main character. There’s a famous saying that could be …show more content…

In contrast to the other short stories mentioned side by side in this review essay, The scarlet ibis is known as a household of conflicts. From the pecking order of man against himself, man versus man, man in contrary to nature and down to man counter to society. The basic conflict is man against nature. As said earlier in this review, one cannot simply defeat nature due to its outstanding powers. Hence portrayed in the scarlet ibis where doodle the protagonist is reflected as a type of bird called scarlet ibis because of their same attitude towards the environment. Doodle was born a physically disabled kid and when his older brother the antagonist, tries to go against the forces of nature by teaching him how to walk and run, Doodle receives the outcomes of the actions. This happens as a scarlet ibis was found dead in their yard on a stormy day, no sooner had that incident occur than Doodle faces the same finale. The sad thing is there’s no moment of epiphany in this particular conflicts compared to other conflicts discussed

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