Patterson Readers discussion

For a heck of a long time, people have been breaking conflicts in literature into a few small groups. Surprisingly, this practice seems to work out all right for humanity. Here's the breakdown of the practice, the conflicts are viewed as thus: (Wo)Man vs. _________. The blank is often filled in with the words 'Society,' 'Self,' 'Evil,' 'Nature,' '(Wo)Man,' etc. In this discussion, please explain how your conflict fits into one of these categories. B.S., please!

Hazel Grace has lung cancer. This means it is woman vs. nature. She's not necessarily afraid of dying, but more so what comes afterwards. She doesn't want love or to fall in love because she doesn't want to hurt those around her by her absence after she dies. Her illness is terminal and it's tearing her apart physically, and mentally.

My book, 'The Shining', definitely has the conflict of Man vs. Self. In the Shining, Jack struggles against anger issues and mental problems. Jack is the winter care taker of the overview hotel in Colorado. However, Jack used to be a teacher, until he suspiciously got into a 'conflict' with a student of his. Now Jack is just trying to make money for him, his wife, and his 4 year old son. However, Jack's mental issues, along with being stuck inside a hotel all winter, really gets the best of him. Sir Jack goes insane.

In my book, it's man vs. self. In this book he struggles getting his life on track and he is his own worst enemy. He doesn't realize he's the one leading him down the wrong path. He's a self destructive teenager. Which you know, is common.....

In my book it would be Women vs. Family. I think it is this because her family was holding back everything she wanted to know about herself. She will have to work on trusting her family, they didn't tell her that she was made of a robot. Also, her grandmother treats her like a criminal. Jenna wants to rebel in a way against her grandmother because she is so trapped in and also is holding the parents of Jenna to tell her everything. The Adoration of Jenna Fox

In the book I am reading which is the second book of the Magyk series called Flyte. In the first book The conflict was the Heap family Vs Dark Magyk. They try to avoid having there daughter, which is secretly the lost princess to the kingdom, taken away. The whole story is about them running away from the Dark Magyk.

For Divergent it is man vs. society. The book is about how the United States is not the United States anymore. The people are split up into different groups based on who they are. If you are brave you are Dauntless. If you are honest you are Etudie. However, there is one person who the test did not work on her so she is Divergent. When the society finds out they try to destroy her.

Woman vs. Society. I just started a book called Stealing Parker by Miranda Kenneally. I chose Woman vs. Society because this girls mom did something the not many people do and people are making fun of her about it. She quit playing softball because everyone on the team was making fun of her, so now she is being picked on by society about her mothers actions.

Women vs. self. In the book of Miss Peregrines home for peculiar children, this girl has a grandfather who had died and she swore a monster had eaten him, no one had believed her. The friend that was with her who saw the monster too, had lied about it when telling the police a different story. The police thought she was crazy, so they had a sketch artist come in and she explained the " monster" then they realized that she needed help, she got counseling and still no one believed her.

Man vs. Society, because Steve is fighting to get through prison. He is nicknamed "MONSTER" because he killed someone. Society makes him look like the worst thing in the world. It was an accident. His finger slipped because of the struggle.

The character in "Eleanor and Park" is Eleanor. She has many conflicts. The main one is Woman vs. Family. Her Father left her, her siblings, and her mother. Her Mom then married a man named Richie who is an alcoholic. He hates everyone, and physically abuses Eleanor's mom. I believe that if Richie left the family, she would have more confidence in herself. Once she gets more confidence in herself, then she can stand up to her bullies, and be the person she really wants to be.

Well, the book I am reading is a non-fiction book. It is a book about chinchillas. It is very helpful to a new chinchilla owner. The chinchillas could be chinchilla verses nature because they can have some health problems such as over heating, bumble foot digestive problems ect. The chinchillas could face some of these problems but the book tells you and explains very well how to prevent them. All in all, I really like this book to help me care for my chinchillas and learn what they like best.

Man vs. Society. My book is Fahrenheit 451, in this book the protagonist's name is Guy Montag. Montag is a fireman, in this book firemen start fire to books instead of putting them out, this is due to the fact that houses are fireproofed (so there are no house fires). Reading in this book is illegal under most circumstances, although you can read text found in comics, and other advertisements. Montag has a life changing experience on one of his jobs when he sees a woman willing to burn with her books, but to make things even worse than this, Montag accidentally starts reading a book during this time. He takes the book, hides it, he's so tempted to read a book. Alas, he does it anyway. Most of the book from this point onward is Montag secretly reading, and hiding his books to prevent being found out. If he's found out he'll lose his job, home, and if the case is severe enough.. put to death. In this case running from almost everyone else makes Man vs. Society a fitting conflict for this book.

Man v.s. Society. Well, Noah the main character has to battle the govt. It hires people to take his brother. They also have a secret cult like thing. This story is like a bildungsroman. Noah the main character eventually has to go through what his brother went through. Even though the only way to pass "THE GAME." Is by not getting your legs cut off by a chainsaw. Overall, I believe that it is Man v.s. Society, because society is out to get him. For his past and what kind of damage he has caused the world and his family. Most of the shockwaves that have come from him have been to save his brother when he was put into the "CULT." He desperately wants to save him but he has no clue how to save him. The govt. puts him through what his brother went through to save him. If he can pass the game, then he and his brother will be set free. Back to the land that they came from. They also need to understand why they did what they did. for the cause that they desperately want to stop. Eventually where I am in the book, they do not understand why they did it, I believe that they will eventually understand why they did what they did.

I am reading 12 Years A Slave by Solomon Northup. The conflict in this book is 'Man' vs. 'Society.' That is the conflict because in society, Solomon isn't considered a man by these people. Because of his skin color, he cannot vote and is judged just because of how he looks. This is completely unfair and that is why this is 'Man' vs. 'Society.'

Man vs. Nature because the characters are in the woods hunting, when a snow storm hits. Only after 2 of the characters saves a guy that's lost in the woods. The guy is really sick and they don't know why. The guy was lost in the woods for like 3 days.Dreamcatcher

In my book "Live The Life You Love" it is man vs self. Through out this book it talks about and teaches how people are the only one that can stop themselves and how to have a positive mind set

Woman vs. self. I just started Alice in Wonderland. I would say it is Woman vs. self because I think that it is all in Alice's head, so it wouldn't count. I would say it is Woman vs. Society because of the Queen of Hearts being against her but I chose woman vs self because it is just her imagination.

Man.vs.Evil. Because Percy Jackson is fighting monsters. And he was fighting over the devil because the devil stole Percy mom. The devil wanted a bolt that Percy had. That's why he stole his mom. So he was going to get his mom back in hell. ON the way there a lot of things happen. He fights a lot of different monsters. (In the first book I read "The lightning Thief) IN the second book it is also Man.vs.Evil Because he also fights animals and weird monsters. (Sea of Monsters)

The Bad Boy's Girl by JessGirl93 In this book, Tessa is falling in love with the boy who has been tormenting her from day 1. When he comes back from Military School, he has seriously changed. He become one of the sweetest boys Tessa knows. She is conflicted about her feelings for him. She beats herself up about it. She won't admit to herself that she has feelings for him. This is an example of "Man v.s. Self"

The book "A Little Million Pieces" has the conflict of Man vs. Self, this book is about James Frey's addictions. He is in a rehab facility. Going through detoxing, his journey to become a better him, but not for him. He hates him self and that is hard to want to fix something you hate. He feels a great deal of loneliness and self hate. His own brain has become this prison cell.

The conflict in Peak is Man vs. Man. It's this conflict because Peak himself discovers that Zopa has taken his grandson, Sun-Jo, to climb to the summit of Mount Everest. Sun-Jo is going to try and take away Peak's fame by being the youngest Tibetian to climb to the summit. Peak wants all of the fame for the climb. Another conflict is Man vs. Nature. It's this conflict too because Everest has extremely cold weather and harsh storms that Peak has to stay out of and climb through. This could be life or death for him depending on how he avoids or deals with the weather.

The book "Salt Water Tears" is definitely man vs. society and man vs. nature. I strongly believe that this is the case because he is fighting these Japanese fishermen to stop them from slaughtering the dolphins. It is man vs. nature because there is no way that he can stop this from happening, and he can't tell every dolphin, well any dolphins, to not come anywhere near the slaughtering site.

The book "enders game" the conflict is man vs. family. He is a third, which means he is the third child born which you cant have in this book. His brother wants to kill him and his parents don't care for him. The only one he like is his sister, they don't talk much though. SO he decides to leave his family and go into the army.

My book is 23 hours. The conflict is woman vs evil. Laura Caxton is a former vampire hunter who was put in a maximum security prison after attacking a prisoner for information. The prison is then taken over by Malverin, the oldest vampire in the world. Malverin then captures her girlfriend and turns everyone in the prison against Laura. Laura has 23 hours to fight through an army of vampires and criminals to save her girlfriend's and her own life.

The book "A Million Little Pieces"'s conflict is man vs. self, or man vs. substance. The Author, and main character James Frey suffers through his addictions of various drugs and alcohol, as well as his criminal actions cause him to end up in an accident. This ends up spending this book in a rehab facility dealing with his rage, sorrow, love and hatred. A great deal of hatred is for himself. He spends the book trying to fix his life.

In the book I previously read, "Eleanor and Park' the conflict is man vs. society. Eleanor is a over weight, red headed, and awkward girl who ends up falling in love with Park. Park is also an outsider but the two are very different. Throughout the novel, the two are trying to break the mold and prove that the stereotype that teenage couples must look a certain way wrong.

The book "Looking for Alaska" has a conflict of Man vs. Nature, because of where I am during the book. Alaska has just passed away and Miles is dealing with her death. He doesn't want to accept her death and doesn't want to figure out what happened.

In the book "A Child Called 'It'", has a conflict of Man V.s Evil. This is because the boy has to face the mother who is a child abuser and she brutally beats, starves, stabs, chokes, and so much more to this boy. She is the 'Evil' In the book and he has to face her and try to do as much as he can to survive.

Will Grayson will Grayson is about Man vs. society. The controversy of the play and the way his peers will react to it. It could also be about Man vs. Self with the first Will and the fact that he has these rules about getting attached. That he cant let himself become attached to anyone.

In the book "Divergant" the conflict is woman vs. self. It is this because the main character Tris, is trying to get a high ranking to pass the initiation for Dauntless. Dauntless has a very hard initiation and she has to make herself better in order to get a high ranking and pass. If she doesn't pass, she gets a bad job like cleaning the sewers and will be considered a factionless person. A factionless person is like a homeless person.

The book The Child Called it is man vs. woman and man vs. society. The boy is facing a woman because of his mom abusing him and not feeding him. He is facing society because the more people that find out about his mother think of him differently and make him feel bad about himself then he goes home and gets abused because his mother figures out that people know. As the book continues I feel like there will be more man vs. something else.

In the book, Looking fot Alaska Miles is struggling in this entire book to get out of the labyrinth. He wants to get out of this maze. He encounters many road rumps in this book and he's trying to find himself. So I would say this book is man vs. self.

In my book Voyage to Alpha Centauri, the conflict is Man vs. Society. The society is extremely controlling of the people (religion is outlawed, no free speech, one-child policy, etc.). The author goes against this society, and a new society is created (on another planet), which is much better than the previous one.

In the book Paper Towns, Margo has a conflict against her mind. She's a mystery according to all the characters and she's constantly running away to escape everything. She basically doesn't care about anything. And her mind is being pulled in 29382 different directions. Therefore it's Woman vs self/everyone. (because everyone loves or hates her but she just doesnt care.)

I just started a new book, so in my last book, The Uprising, man vs. society fits best. This books is the sequel to The Forsaken which is about people who are forced to take a test, and if you "fail" the test you are sent to the wheel. But you fail only if you have thoughts that are against the way their society works. This book is a lot like the hunger games where teenagers are forced to pick a tribe and fight for their lives. In the uprising Aleena found her way off the wheel and is now on a base, this base is filled with people who have been sent to the wheel. They're all trying to find a way to uprise. But sadly drones are sent to this base and destroy it. So Aleena, and the other rebels are forced to face the society they have been put into and find a way to correct it.

In the book, "What Happened To Goodbye" Mclean has family issues. Her mother left her father for a different man and now Mclean has trouble deciding weather to talk to her mom or not and if she wants to live with her dad or not. Man vs. Family

In the book Please Ignore Vera Dietz, it is woman vs. society. The girl is facing losing a friend and has to deal with society alone. Her friend was the boy that lived next door. Her parents who have split were neighbors and became lovers. The girl has to face going to work and school everyday without talking to her best friend every day. She says in the beginning of the book that he left her with a big thing that she has kept a secret. This girl knows a lot more than everyone even the police. she has been secretly in love with her best friend for years and has kept many many secrets.

My book is Ruthless by Sara Shepard. The conflict is women vs. person. The girls are getting messages from an unknown person. He/she is threatening their lives and blackmailing them. The girls are trying to fight against the person and figure out who it is. They encounter many bumps along the way and some weird stuff happens.

My book Lone Survivor is Man vs himself. The main character is Marcus. He and his navy seal team,are trying to bring down the taliban and its leader. Right now I am at a really good part in main book ,where they are up on a mountain trying to get an eye on the enemy. They get to the perfect spot when these 4 people with sheep come up and see them. They have to make the choice to kill them or let them go. They decide to let them go which hurts them.I think it is very stupid how they decide not to kill them and save themselves just because, the think they will go to jail due to what the media would do to the story it would make. People in war should never base their decision off of media, that makes me mad. After this the whole taliban is coming after them and they are running out of mountain to run away. Right now they are in a war with 4 vs 200 and it is really good. So I guess this could be man vs nature also.

In the book Divergent, the conflict is woman vs. society because Beatrice is 'divergent', and that makes her different from everyone else in the society. Her being different from everyone else causes her to act differently from everyone else, and withhold information from people that might be against her power.

In my book, Memoirs of a Geisha, the conflict is Woman v. Man. Sayuri is sold by her father to another man that sells her to Geishas. She is forced to focus her whole life around entertaining men. She must have favor with men by selling her body and time to them. She must spend time and money making herself beautiful to impress men, so they will pay her. She isn't allowed to find people that really care for her or have a relationship with them. Instead she is forced to have relationships with men that don't care about her, only her body.

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The book Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist is man vs. self. Nick is still recovering after a recent breakup and this is preventing himself from living his life at all. So he's battling himself to return to normal. Norah is also interested in helping him get over the girl. I'm not sure if the conflict may evolve from man vs. self to woman vs. woman.

The book Dear John is person vs. society. John Tyree finished high school and then immediately signed up the army. He got a furlough though, and during that he falls in love with this girl named Savannah. When he has to go, Savannah says she would wait for him because they are madly in love. the big conflict is that he has to pick between his love and serving his duty to his country that he has signed up to do, before he fell in love.

In the book 'One Thousand White Women' by Jim Fergus, the conflict is Woman vs. Society. This is because in this book the main character is a woman who is sent to live in the west and be an Indian bride. While she was the one to choose to go there, the only reason that she went was to escape the insane asylum that her parents had locked her up in because she fell in love with someone that is under her social status. While there she learns that much like the 'civilized society', she is below the social class of the men. She strives to be treated as an equal among the men which is not the average way for the native women to act. She goes to the swimming hole with the men and is the first one into the water as well makes sure that she is riding side by side with her husband when they ride the horses. Overall it is a good book, it is a bit slow though.

In the book, All the Kings Horses by Kurt Vonnegut, Man vs. Himself is the main conflict. He has to play a chess game with the men who were capture with him against a Chinese warlord. If he wins he escapes. The catch is if any of his pieces are taken the person who was the piece gets executed. So he has to decide who to kill and not to kill so the survivors can escape.

I have just finished Forever Odd, the sequel to Odd Thomas, both by Dean Koontz. The conflict is definitely Man vs. Man. As Odd Thomas (Yes, that is his real name) fights to protect his friend and survive, he has to avoid being shot at by supernatural-obsessed people determined to exploit Odd's powers to see the dead. From navigating his city's huge underground water duct's to the crawlspace of a burred, ash-covered hotel to avoid his death, it's an obvious conflict for survival against evil psychopaths.

The last book I read was Allegiant, and the conflict is mainly man versus society. The characters find out that the society that they live in has been altered, and that everyone is living with damaged genes. Their society was designed to be a solution for all of the problems that went on in the outside world, but most were unaware that there even was an outside world. For this reason, society is to blame for all of the problems.

In my book, Cut, there is a conflict. Conflict between man and self. Callie is fighting depression which is a mental illness. I haven't gotten very far in the book to find if there is someone who is causing her to be this way. But I do know that depression isn't something that can be remedied. It's constant nagging at your skin. The illness (man) Callie is fighting is tearing at her from the inside out. This is why it's man vs. self