Sheboygan Falls HS discussion

What incident or conflict does the author use to begin the story? Why do you think the author chose this beginning? Give two possible reasons. Be sure to name the book (title) and the author.

In my book "Out of his League" By Pat Flynn. A boy named "Ozzie" who lives in Australia is moving to America to be an exchange student in Texas. He is a star Rugby player who is trying to not only master the sport of football but also resist the temptations of the American girls so he can keep his girl friend back home. I believe the author chose this particular beginning to list out the plot for you so you don't get confused reading it. He also could have done this to help the audience realize this is going to be an intense sports book that you really need to pay attention to, to understand its meaning.

I am reading a book called The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff, it starts of with the conflict of this boy. He is allergic to blood and iron. In my opinion it is a weird book but I am going to continue to read it. A reason why the author might have used this conflict is to get a story going and another reason might be that this boy allergic to this stuff is the child that his family had he replaced that child when he was really little. This book can get really confusing but I am going to try to finish it. I also think it is kinda of weird for this book to be written considering it doesn't do much of a description of the character.

In my story, Halo The Fall of Reach, the conflict is in different spots. There’s the conflict of humanity vs the Covenant which is a recurring conflict within in halo. Then there’s the deeper more emotional side of things just starting to get developed in the story. This emotional conflict is in Doctor Halsey’s mind. She feels terrible for what she is doing to certain children, including John 117. She is torn between doing what she feels is needed for the human race and stealing the lives of these children to become war machines or allowing these children to live but allowing humanity to fall into disorder. I believe the author starts out with this to set a firm base for the story and give an idea of John’s past and future. Another possible reason is that the author wants the readers to be able to connect with Doctor Halsey in order for her to better justify her decisions. This is also setting the base for a very interesting amount of events that lead into the video games and the rest of the series.

I am reading Maximum Ride: The Final Warning by James Patterson. One of the first conflicts in the story is now the U.S. government wants to learn more about the flock by observing them. This is a conflict because Max doesn’t want the situation to turn out like their lives at “the school”. She fears that they will perform dangerous tests and experiments on them. She also doesn't want to her “family” to be split up again now that she’s with her real parents. The whole flock hates the idea of going to a normal school and having the government observe them. However they would be under a close eye and heavy protection from the government. I am not far enough in the book to find out when Max will do next. I believe that whatever she chooses it will be for the benefit of the flock.

In my book,The Son of Neptune, the author, Rick Riordan, begins the book with Percy Jackson running for his life from gorgons and having no memory except for the name of his girlfriend annabeth. The author started the book this way because in the first book in the series Jason wakes up on a bus with no memory. Later in The Son of Neptune Percy describes how he woke up at the wolf house, an important place from the first book, knowing how to fight but having no memory. As he is running from the gorgons he meets Frank and Hazel, the other two main characters in the book. As Percy, Frank, and Hazel are running to Camp Jupiter, Percy stops to carry a old hippy lady who later turns out to be Juno. Who issues a quest for Percy, Frank, and Hazel to go on to save the world.

In my book Arena by William R. Forstchen the conflict used to begin the story is a pickpocket taking a mans satchel. The pickpockets name is Garth One-Eye and he is chased through the town by the man and other guards. Garth eventually loses them and then goes back to his “home” and shares his prize with is friends. One-Eye and his friends then talk about what is on the mind of everyone in town, the arena fights. They talk about who is fighting and what spells they are using as well as who they should bet on. I think the author chose this beginning because it is very high speed and makes you want to keep reading right away. The book was written that way to keep you interested and create suspense straight away from the beginning. You also learn a lot about the future events right away, it makes you want to finish the book in one sitting.

In the book that I am currently reading ( Crash and Burn by Michael Hassan ), the main conflict that begins the story is that Steven Crashinsky ( hence the name Crash ) must write a biography about his life in a fairly short amount of time. His publicist is requiring him to write a piece truthfully explaining what happened on the day of and leading up to the day he saved his school from a hostage situation. What people don’t know about this hero is that he was never the heroic type; he has ADHD, swears just about every other sentence, smokes weed, and never had much success connecting with his father who threatened multiple times to send him to a military school and also cheated on his mom. And one of the worst parts of all… he grew up with the boy who took the school hostage ( David Burnett, hence the name Burn ). I believe that the author chose to begin the book this way because it gives an interesting way to tell about his life story. Almost the entire book is written like his biography, down to the names of the chapters. I also think that it improves the story’s plot too because if he would have never written an autobiography about his life, then he would have never gotten into much trouble with his publicist. On one of his interviews, he admitted to drug use. This upset his publicist so much that she almost quit, but after a few weeks the buzz died down and everything was somewhat back to normal.

In the Heart of a Champion by Carl Deuker they started the book out with the main characters dad dying. I feel like they started the story with Seth’s father dying because growing up without a father does a lot to you. It will change the kind of person he will become. I know it’s a big deal to play catch with your dad, but Seth was never able to do that so he would just throw a ball against a wall which is not as good of practice for baseball. Another reason they might have done this is because his best friend in the story has a father that is always drunk. Seth’s friend Jimmy complains about his father and that he hates him. Jimmy says that “Your lucky your father died and is not a problem in your life.” a lot to Seth. Both of them wish they could switch dads because they believe that the other person is luckier.

In my book Everlost, the author, Neal Shusterman, starts out with a conflict. The conflict is the car crash that Allie and Nick were in that caused them to die and go into the everlost world. I think the author chose to start the book in this fashion because that was really a necessary piece of the plot which the book needs. Without this happening, Allie and Nick wouldn’t have died and they probably would have had a normal life. Another reason he probably did this is because he wanted to get people interested in what happens next, because if the main characters die right away there must be some interesting story ahead!

I am still reading Unwind by Neal Shusterman. This book changes through three different characters Connor,Risa,and Lev that randomly rotate but they all start off the same but all with a little bit of a twist. All the characters are in danger of being unwound but all for different reasons. To be unwound means form the ages 13-18 your parents can make the choice to get you unwound. That means that you are brought to a facility and all your limbs, organs, skin, and other body parts are harvested and given to a person who is in need of a body-part organ or any other piece of the body. Connor's parents have made the choice to unwind him because of his temper and bad grades when he found out he knew he could have avoided it but it was already to late then he makes the choice to run away from home and try to survive until hes 18. Risa is a foster child and the foster organization is running full, and they need to trim down the roster and she was chosen to get unwound.And finally Lev is being unwound because his family is very religious and it is in their churches "rules" to sacrifice one of their children and lucky Lev was it but he was accepting of it. Until the three met up in and ran away together did Lev start to doubt his parents choices. I think the author started the book like this to give a background of each character and their personality. I also think he picked this beginning to show their home life because he could have just started the book while they were all on the run. And I think he portrayed all of the characters very well for a good background throughout the story.

In The Rivalry Mystery At The Army-Navy Game by John Feinstein the conflict is that there is something odd at The Army Navy Game. I think the other chose this conflict because right in the title is mystery so what better way to start of the book with a mystery. I also believe this because it is the Government technically that runs these teams because Army Navy and Air Force are obviously military academies. In the past in these books Steve and Susan find something odd about every sporting event they investigate. This also one of the most well known games in college football. I think John Feinstein had a great way of starting the story I am enjoying the book so far.

My book is called Invasion by Jon F. Lewis. The conflict that the author uses to start the story is that the main character had to go to a boot camp in Washington D.C because his dad and all of his brothers were in that boot camp. In this boot camp he had to learn how to fight and defend his self in case of an emergency so they had him spar with one of their most skilled guys. I think the author chose this as the beginning conflict so that you can get a better understanding of the main character and to understand how the main character acts in situations like a fight. Another reason I think that he chose this as the beginning of the book is also to help you get a better understanding of what the book is about and to get your attention so that you would keep reading the book.

In my book, 3001 The Final Odyssey, The first conflict was an accident that happened in space, in the year 2001. The astronaut, Frank Poole's air hose was cut by a machine that was controlled by HAL, (the on-board computer system) who went rouge and killed the whole crew except for Dave Bowman, (Poole's best friend.) Dave manages to take control of the ship and but he went out of satellite range and presumably ran into an artifact from an unknown race. A thousand years later Frank Poole is revived at a Mining ship in the year 3001. I think that the author chose this beginning because it would explain how a person from the year 2001 could handle going a thousand years into the future. It would also allow him to make connections between life in the 20th century to the 30th century. I think it also could have been because It would allow the author to set a scene of what 3001 could be like with all of the new technologies, planets, and artifacts that we have uncovered in the future.

The conflict my author uses at the beginning of my story (Change-Up) is a character in my book who is a professional baseball player who is very popular and everyone looks up to him, but he has a secret, and no one knows about it except for one of my main characters who is a news reporter and knows all about the secret and her friend keeps asking her what it is but she has to keep it a secret. I think this author choose this beginning to build up suspense and lead up to the main idea. I also think the author choose this conflict for the beginning to show everyone who the characters are and how they do things.

I am currently reading Where’d you go Bernadette by: Maria Semple, and it is about a woman named Bernadette who is terrified of people, especially Canadians. Bernadette gets into a big fight with her husband because he feels like she isn’t right and that she has unrealistic fears. He wants to get her help, but Bernadette thinks that she is fine. I think that the author chose conflict to begin the story because it really gets the story moving after that particular fight happens and it lead up to the main plot of the story, which is when Bernadette runs away. After Bernadette runs away, her daughter Bee tries to find her. The major conflict in this story is against Bee and her father, Elgie. Elgie doesn't want Bee to try and find Bernadette because he thinks she is dead and that Bee just needs to grieve, while Bee thinks she is alive and doesn't understand why she can’t look for her mom. Bee and Elgie fight over this and it causes a lot of tension to take place in the book.

In The Alchemyst {The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel} by Michael Scott it starts with two twins, brother and sister, who work across the street from each other in San Francisco. A mysterious man and three others then enters the bookshop, the store where the brother works at. Inside the bookshop the twin is working down in the basement, after hearing conflict happening he hurries to floor level where he sees the bookshop’s owner and the mysterious man fighting with “magic”. After the fight between the bookshop owner and the mysterious man and his three accomplices the twins find out that the bookshop owner is an immortal and the mysterious man was his enemy.

I believe the author chose this beginning to start with lots of action to pull in the reader into the book and to also introduce all four of the main characters of the book.

At the beginning of Goldstirke the conflict was person VS. society. The person being Carl Hobbes and society being the U.S. government. Carl opened up the Fort Knox gold vault doors and terrorist groups stole many of the gold bars. So The U.S. sent him to a camp and treated him badly. I think the author chose this beginning because it hooks you on to the story right away and gets you really interested, it makes you want to find out what happens and keep reading. I think also because this sets up the rest of the book and next book and the main story is based off this.

Tyson wrote: "In The Rivalry Mystery At The Army-Navy Game by John Feinstein the conflict is that there is something odd at The Army Navy Game. I think the other chose this conflict because right in the title is..."

Can you explain "odd," Tyson? I'm not sure what the conflict is.

In my book, Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher, the conflict that starts off this story is this girl, Hannah Baker, committed suicide, and she sent out tapes telling her story to the people who affected her life. They took a part how her life turned out which made her make the decision of suicide. Another part of the conflict is she explains how this decision all started because of a rumor that wasn’t true and it snowballed from there. I think the author chose this beginning because it gets into the plot right away. It definately caught my interest immediately and I didn’t want to stop reading. I think the author uses this as the conflict in the beginning so you can see how one little thing you do can affect somebody’s life in big ways.

In my book It’s Kind of a Funny Story, the beginning of the book starts off with an easy conflict to figure out; A story about a teenage boy struggling with depression, school, suicide, smoking “pot”, girls, and trying to figure out how to get his life back together again (also known to him as the “shift” where his brain shifts back into place). Since the Author Ned Vizzini has spent his time in a psychiatric hospital in his past life, it’s something he can write that he could relate to every time he reads it over again. Another reason why the author would of have picked an interesting beginning is because of how an upsetting tone it radiates off to the reader. The first sentence even makes you develop a pit in your stomach:

“It’s so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself.”

Just by reading the line makes readers who are into “darker” themes want to read more.

The main conflict in the book I Am Number Four is an internal conflict, considering John can’t tell anyone his secret. John is from another planet and came to Earth as a baby. He has powers that have been acting up and he doesn’t know how to control them, which could start another conflict, as well. There are creatures that try to kill him and the other people who came to Earth. Since John can’t tell anyone that creatures are trying to kill him, and he’s trying to kill the creatures, because he’s secretly an alien, that also creates conflict.

To start off my book, Point Blanc by: Anthony Horowitz, the author reviews kind of who the person is because i’m reading a series. The starting conflict is that Alex, the main character, has a drug dealer who keeps coming to his school and ruining people by giving them drugs. He tracks the dealer to his home, which is near a police station, and he tries to stop the drug dealer whom he calls Skoda. He doesn’t exactly use the most effective way to try and stop the drug dealer, even though he ends up half succeeding, so he gets caught and sent to the police station. When there M16, top secret investigation service that he works for since his uncle died working for them, takes him from the police station and gives him a new mission. The main conflict is obviously him getting caught by police and almost having to go to jail. I think the author started the book like this to sort of build up the suspense that continues throughout the book and to bring in the bigger focus conflict. I also think this could be to keep the action levels maintained throughout the book and keep the reader interested. Making the start of a book a conflict can help to keep the reader intrigued by the book and more focused on the book itself.

In the book Carrie by Stephen King; there are many conflicts in the beginning. The first few pages start out with Carrie at school, and in the locker room. All the students tease her because she’s different from them. Not many kids talk to her because she’s overweight and isn't viewed as pretty, they all think she’s strange. Later, the author introduces the mother of Carrie. The mother is deeply religious and keeps Carrie on a tight leash. The mother views most things as sinful, so Carrie’s view on things is different than her friends. The main character dreams of what it would be like to have freedom, and to move away from her mother and start a new life. I believe the mother is the reason that Carrie is so conflicted. If her mother weren't so controlling of her, Carrie would be able to enjoy herself as a kid/teen and be able to have friends. I think the author chose to start out with this so he could show some background on Carrie, or to lead up to what Carrie is going to do.

The book I recently read is called Beautiful Chaos and is the third book in the Beautiful Creatures series. I believe the main conflict in the story is between the main characters Ethan and Lena and then the Dark Castors Lena is a castor, a type of witch. The Dark Castors are the evil type of witches who are the opposite of what Lena is. Ethan is a mortal, who has fallen in love (this begins in the first book) with Lena. The Dark castors want Ethan dead, but Lena is not going to let that happen without a fight. From crossing worlds between the supernatural and mortal world, jumping off of water towers, and spending time in secret underground tunnels, this couple takes being protective of the other to a whole new level. Yet, The whole universe it seems, does not want Lena and Ethan to be together. From Lena's dissaproving family with super magical casting powers, to the Dark Castors who put a spell on Lena and Ethan so every time they kiss or touch, Ethan's flesh starts to burn, the odds are not in their favor. Throughout the whole story, they are trying to prove to the conflicting people in their lives that love can truly conquer all.

The Forest of Hands and Teeth By Carrie Ryan
Before the book starts, Mary’s father was infected and turned into an Unconsecrated, a zombie like creature.The Unconsecrated are a constant threat to the only village left on earth, but Mary’s mother always told her stories about the ocean and how the waves would roll and crash onto the sand. It always left Mary thinking that there is more outside of the village that they live in. Her wild imagination leads her to believe in love, happiness, and life with Travis. This is an internal conflict within Mary as she tries to figure out if it is worth it to leave the safety of the village to find her ocean.I think the author chose this to begin the story because the fact that Mary believes in the ocean is what keeps her going everyday and when the village fence surrounding them is breached by the Unconsecrated; Mary, Travis, Cassie and Harry followed by Jed (Mary’s brother) and Beth (Jed’s Wife) have no choice but to go down the path that leads into The Forest of Hands andTeeth. Where the path is so narrow at times that if you make one wrong step, you could trip into the arms of the Unconsecrated, who are thrashing and clawing against the rusty fence that runs along the path because they can smell the fresh skin of human.
The conflicts in this story only get deeper and deeper, but in the end everything becomes clear, like crystal.

I am reading “Phantoms In The Snow” by Kathleen Benner Duble. The conflict they use to start off my book is the main character’s(Noah Garret) parents passing away. This conflict was probably chosen by the author because it caused another conflict of Noah having to be sent off to his uncle. His uncle is in the skiing/mountain branch of the military which causes another conflict of noah needing to learn how to ski. This will probably also lead to many more conflicts as the story goes on. Another reason the author may have chosen this conflict is because she wanted this conflict to mess up his childhood but then have him turn his life around and become a successful adult.

The conflict of the book that i'm reading, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradburry the conflict so far has not been one of physical measure but of the main character questioning his entire state of mind as well as way of life. For a job, Guy Montag works as a fireman, not fire-fighter; his primary goal is to locate and destroy all copies of books ever written, mainly, by means of burning them. While homes in the sub-accurate future are completely fireproof, firemen are allowed to enter, deface, and search a home if they have reason to believe that the home is storing books.

And for 10+ years of this, Montag never questioned his ways or methods under the motto “fire is clean”. However in this world that is apparently taking place sometime in post 1990 (the book was written from 1950-3) education has changed from learning for meaning to learning right from wrong. Nobody cares why something works they only care that it works correctly. Entertainment is king, televisions are not sets but entire rooms of communication between people, religion has been forgotten with all sacred texts having been burned and government is now just secretly fighting wars with unmanned fighters being sent to bomb who they please.

Though when after 10+ years of secretly stealing books, one at a time from house burnings Montag really starts to wonder: “What's the harm in a book?” In a world where books are treated like we would treat a bomb with no actual reason, Montag has to fight himself and his own mindset to try to find out why does he do what he does. Also his wife yells at him a lot but that doesn't seem to change his mind...at all.

I think the author did this either, A: To make the reader feel really connected to the main person while also letting you know every difference between the modern and fictional world. Or, B to make the reader feel extremely unconnected to the character since they are in a situation that you would never encounter witch lets the reader imagine what will happen next.

Right now I am currently reading The Mortal Instruments City of Bones by Cassandra Clare. The book starts out with Clary, the main character, and her best friend Simon waiting in line to get into a nightclub. Clary, being the observant person that she is notices a boy at the front of the line who is making a scene. He was different in the fact that he had blue hair so he stood out in her mind. Once her and Simon are in the club she cannot get the blue haired boy out of her mind, and then she sees him again, and he has a knife with him and he is guiding people into a closet. Out of curiosity she follows them into the closet and sees them beating up another boy, and she jumps in trying to get them to stop. The only problem is that they are shadow hunters and most people cannot see them because they hunt demons and are half immortal. Since she can see them, she finds out that she is a shadow hunter and there is more to her life than she has ever known. I really think that the author started with this conflict because she wanted to see how Clary reacts to different and odd events that happen in her life. Also the author wanted to use a real life way to introduce the mythical creatures into her story. The author wants to put us as readers into a world we understand but add the demons and shadow hunters so that we can understand the book better and enjoy it.

In the beginning of the story, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, the conflict that occurs is the name of the character at school. There was a baby that came into the world of Mr. and Mrs. Patel. The baby’s name was Piscine Patel, named after a pool. The name of Piscine came from his parents and his dad’s friend, Francis Adirubasamy. As a young boy, Piscine called him Mamaji. In Indian language, it meant uncle. Mamaji was a great competitive swimmer in South India when he was a young boy. He tried to convince Piscine’s parents to start swimming but they weren’t willing too. Instead Mamaji got Piscine to begin. Piscine was involved in swimming at the age of 7 years old. Other than the activity of swimming, the stories told from Mamaji interested Piscine’s father. One pool that fascinated him was the Molitor Piscine. The Molitor Piscine kept him in awe. The swimming pool was a pool the Gods would have enjoyed to be in. As a result, Piscine Molitor Patel was named after the great swimming pool.

For school, his name was a problem. Attending St. Josephs school, kids gave him a nickname. Piscine’s name came upon to “Pissing”. Even the teachers called him “Pissing”. The name stuck onto him for awhile. Eventually he moved to a different school called Petit Séminaire. To cover up the name he carried, Piscine came up with a new name for him which was “Pi”.

The purpose of this conflict in the beginning is to give the reader interest. It made the reading much more interesting. The conflict was humorous when teachers and kids called him “Pissing”. Another reason why the author chose the conflict of Piscine’s name in the beginning because of how you can take something bad into something even better. For instance, Piscine’s nickname at St. Josephs was “Pissing”. When he went to a different school, he got the chance to take the advantage and create a new name. The new nickname the students and teachers called him was “Pi”.

In the book that I am currently reading, “Black Helicopters” by Blythe Woolston the incident to start the story was when The Black Helicopters flew over Valley’s house and killed her sister Mabby. I think the author chose this beginning because it gave the motivation and reasoning of what happens in the rest of the book “Black Helicopters”. Another reason I think the author picked this beginning because it was sort of a unexpected and you could say it was a shocking way for any book to begin and it also kept me more interested of what would happen next and more intrigued than most books that I have read.

I am beginning to read The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, the conflict beginning the story is an external conflict. The narrator's mom feels that she is depressed and when she goes to her doctor Jim he confirms that she is depressed and suggests she ups her medicine and goes to a support group. She is fine with doing this but when she gets there she says “of course, was depressing as hell” which she is talking about the support group. It doesn't make it better that every meeting Patrick (support group leader) talks about the heart of Jesus and how they are sitting right in the heart of Jesus as young cancer survivors. Plus his story about how he had cancer when he was younger and how they thought he wasn’t going to live and now how he ended up becoming a full-grown adult. I think the author choose this as the beginning of the story to catch the interest of the reader right from the beginning and not have the reader hanging and wondering what the rest of the book is going to be about.

In my book Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper, the conflict in the story is the troubles that the main character is going through. The main character Melody has something called cerebral palsy. That is a disability where you can’t walk and can’t talk. The author writes about how Melody wishes that she could talk. Melody’s neighbor Ms.V takes care of her sometimes after school when her parents are both working. Ms.V asks Melody if she could choose if she could walk or talk what would she choose. Melody points to the word talk on her word board that sits on her lap when she's in her wheelchair. Melody really wishes she can talk, so hopefully later in the book the doctors help her find a way to communicate with so she can tell everyone everything she knows.
I think the author wrote so much about her wishing that she could talk because she might want the reader to be more interested and wonder if she will ever find a way to talk and make the reader want to keep reading. Or she could want the reader to feel her and have an understanding of what she's going through and how hard it is not to be able to talk.

In my book lorwyn by Cory J. Herndon and Scott McGough the beginning conflict is about the main character rhys, Rhys is a part of this elf nation called the gilt leaf, the gilt leaf is based on beauty and glamar, and in the beginning conflict is when the nation is trying to eliminate neighboring goblins. During the battle there is a Magical explosion where almost everything was knocked onto the ground. rhys was at the middle of the explosion and lost his horn. In the gilt leaf tribe if you lose your horn you are looked at as a traitor and an eyeblight . This conflict is what pretty much started the book and doesn’t finish until the second book Morningtide.

In the book I am reading right now, there is one big conflict that is happening. Neely Crenshaw, one of the important characters in my book, is deciding if he should still love his coach or hate him. The thing is Neely’s coach back in high school was Eddie Rake. Eddie Rake was a real tough and mean guy. He never wanted anyone to quit or give up. But on Neely’s last high school career game, his coach did not show up, and they lost. This affected the team, deeply inside them. Ever since that day Neely left high school and went to a college far away. Neely never came back for 10 years, until now. He is now with his old buddies back from High School talking about his great memories, with them. Eddie Rake is now very old, and will soon die. Neely and his friends, think they should forgive their coach from that one day, or still hate him forever. This is a very huge problem because, Eddie Rake always made them work real hard. But on their state championship game, he did not show up, and nobody knows why. As you can see, there is one big conflict going on.

The beginning conflict in my book started off with the main character running into her grandparents at the grocery store. Most people don’t see this as a problem but these grandparents are the parents of the dad who left his girlfriend when she got pregnant in high school. Josie, the main character never met her dad and doesn't have any plans to but now with her dad’s parents living in town she is unsure what she wants to do. Josie’s mom is not aware that her ex-boyfriends are back in town and Josie wants it to stay that way otherwise it could lead to a whole new set of problems.

My book “Payback Time” is about a highschool reporter that is short and chubby. The football team at there school is terrible. There tight ends they have are terrible,short, and fat. They have a tight end named “James Stremhuegh” he is a strong tall tight end. The question every one wonders is why they don't play “James” ever? The reporter reviews the coach and at the end of the session he asks why doesnt James play “How aren't you playing that six foot six beast how don't you use that asset to the team and the coach does not answer and asks the reporter to leave his ofmes James just has to sit there he does not get a second of play
fice.When the next game comes james jjust has to sit there.

In my book “ Soldier X” the conflict my main character focused on was WW2. I think the author did this because so he could automatically bring the reader into the book and make them to read more so they know what’s going to happen, instead of a book that slowly went into the action. That is the reason why i like my book because i love books that bring me into the action. The other reason why is because books that start slow are just plain BORING you would lose your reader right at that page. I want a book that’s adventurous and dangerous that’s what keeps me reading. Those are my two reason of why the author put a conflict in the beginning of the book.

In the book Deeper Than The Dead, author Tami Hoag uses an interesting conflict to get the book started. Being a Murder Mystery, you can already conclude the basics; someone will get killed, someone will do the killing, and someone will bring them to justice. Instead of going the normal route of having someone find a body, she starts out her book with a constant switch between subjects; the joy this murderer gets out of what he does and a story, written by the man’s son, about why his dad is the best in the world. I think it’s an interesting route to go. Although you don’t know who this man is, you know that he’s got a son (and probably a wife as well) that looks up to his. Throughout the book, it gives you this hair-raising reminder that this monster has a son who thinks he’s a great man and reminds you that you can never truly know what someone is capable of.

I am reading a book called The Dead-Tossed Waves (by Carrie Ryan) its a sequal to the book The Forest Of Hands And Teeth. The main conflict in the begining of the story is that Gabry ( the daughter of Mary from the first book) is stuck deciding beteween if she should go with her friends past the boundries which hold back the mudo. Mudo are the “zombies” that rule the world now and will go after any human they can smell. Growing up Gabry learned that it is forbidden to go past the wall, but her friends beg her to go- so she does.