Conflicts

Conflicts - What are the major problems? Why are they problems? At this point in the reading I would have to say that the conflict would be Bill leaving to fight in the war. I think personally that the story will be kind of empty without Bill.

=I didn't think Bill left to fight in the war. I might have misunderstood what the author was trying to say. I just thought Bill left to not have to fight.=

I still wonder if Bill decide to fight with the Rebs or the Union, but Nick I still think he left for battle.

It is Nick, for the last time. So, I think the main conflict is basically the war. Almost everything in this story happened because of the war. As for External conflict, it seems to be a Man VS. Man. I say this because Jethro's feelings of loneliness came when he had family leave for war and people were being hateful to the Creightons because of Bill's actions. Also, these conflicts are resolved when the war ends and Jethro gets to see Shad and John again.

This is Evan. I think the main conflict is the boys running off for war. For type of external conflict I think it could either be man vs man or society, but I guess I will go with man vs man because pretty much every conflict in the story has to do with the boys leaving for war getting mad about what side they fight for. The internal conflict (man vs self) with Jethro that I picked was the decision whether or not to help Eb. I think this was a hard decision for him to make because the consequences of helping or even knowing about a deserter without reporting them are great.