Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Conflicts in "feed"

Today in class, we talked about internal and external conflicts. We took examples from the movie just finished yesterday. The assignment given to us (the class) was to get examples from our books instead of the movie. The first conflict that will be discussing about is man versus man. In my book, the only conflict that the main character faces against another person is when him and his friends were at this party on the moon. While all the people at the party were having fun, one man scrambled everybody's feeds and began to control what came through the feeds. The next day some government officials showed up to fix everyone's feeds. The next conflict will man versus nature. My book started out with Earth being totally different from now, with highways in the sky and planes in outer space. Everything on the Earth is either dead, nonfunctional, or still rotting away. When Violet is in the hospital after the incident at the party, a doctor began to talk to her about her feed. She noticed that past the window behind the doctor was a garden full of grey, rotten plants. The reason why all the plants were dead was because there was not enough oxygen near the ground for them to survive. I believe that reason why humans created highways in the sky was because there was no oxygen reaching people's lungs. The third conflict that I will be discussing is man versus himself. This also deals with Violet and the doctor. What the doctor was telling was that her feed was badly damaged inside her brain and would take several days for it to repair itself. After a few weeks, she can feel the feed still being broken, which doesn't let her function normally. So far the book just stopped talking about this situation and will probably come back to it. The fourth conflict is going to be man versus fate. The only example that I can think of is that the main character believes Violet to be his one true love. Ever since the hospital incident, they began seeing each other or dating. They go to the mall together and also visit each other's parents whenever they to each others' houses. The final conflict I have for my book is man versus society. Nothing serious has happened to any of the characters, except for the that one person who tried to mess up everybody's feed. The authorities said the reason this man tried to take over people's feed was because he believed that the feeds created something that would basically lead to perfection. This man also feared that the mass media was taking control over their lives and influencing the way they think and do things. Until next time my eager fans...

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