9th Grade SSR discussion

Literature cannot exist without the presence of a conflict. In your SSR book is there character vs. self conflict? If so, what is the conflict and how can you tell?

Logan is vs. himself because he doesn't know how to tell Beth how he ended up in hampton, or how he found her.

In Tuesdays With Morrie, Morrie is dying of ALS. Morrie has to face many troubling times and has to make many diffrent decisions. He has to think of regrets in his life and think of whats now to come. I can tell that this story has a character vs. self conflict because Morrie talks about his regrets in life and at times he thinks he brought the sickness on himself. But he finds a succor in a home help aide named Mitch.

In the book 'Daughter of Smoke & Bone', Karou faces a major conflict with herself. This is because, throughout the book, she is trying to figure out who she is, why she was raised the way she was raised and what some of the things in her life mean. Some examples are the fact that she was raised in another world by 'Chimaera' and that she has 'Hamsas' on her palms that cause brutal damage to 'Seraphim'. So these things leave her wondering why she is the way she is.

The three girls, Lena, Bridget, and Carmen are each trying to cope with the death of their friend Tibby. Each girl is having a very hard time excepting her death and none of them are sure how to get over it and move on, and only they can help themselves

Logan is in a battle against himself because he doesnt know whether or not to tell Beth the real reason why he came to Hampton,which is because of the photograph. He is afraid telling her might ruin the relationship that they have made.

There is a lot of internal conflict within Oskar himself. He struggles a lot with self confidence since his father passed away. He gets really worried over things and always is against himself

Nora, Ellie, Charlie, and Paul are trying to get over their two friend's murder's. They don't know how to accept it and they somehow always direct their thoughts/actioins/discussions to their friend's death's.

In the book "Purple Heart" by Patricia McCormick, the novel's main conflict is between Matt and himself. Through out the book Matt struggles to remeber what happened the day he was injured. Matt pushses away any memories that he doesnt want to remeber. Once Justin reveals to him what actually happened in the alley, that Ali was a spy giving away the team's secrets,Matt has trouble coping with the idea.

In 'After' Devon is in a lawsuit, her against the state. She is no aid to her lawyer because she is refusing to tell what happened to cause her to be put in juvey. Everyone around her wants to help her becasue they believe that she is innocent, it is Devon who is making things more difficult for herself. She slowly reveals more and more about the night that everything changes, but also continues to be reluctant to tell everything to her lawyer, Dom.

In "Beautiful Creatures" one of the main characters, Lena Duchannes is a Caster. On their 16th birthday Caster's either turn light or dark. As the day of her 16th birthday approaches, Lena is very confused about her fate and is scared about who she might become.

Since my nonfiction book on genetics doesn't really have characters, I'm going to stretch this a bit. An experiment has been conducted on dominant and recessive inheritance in flies, making the scientist have to put them to sleep (anesthesia). A conflict that might be stirring inside the scientist is if this is morally okay or not, or if it is worth the slight risk of death to observe their phenotypes.