Author's Note: This piece is about conflict/resolution. in the story Big Boy. I wrote this to demonstrate my understanding of conflict/resolution.
The boy in this story, David Sedaris,
is faced with a problem when he goes to a dinner party with his family and a
few other families as well. He excused himself to use the restroom and when he
got there he found a surprise. Someone had left a giant turd in the toilet.
While he would have loved to just leave it, he couldn’t because everyone knew
that he was in the bathroom and that would be embarrassing if the next person
in the bathroom said something about it. He tried flushing the toilet several
times but nothing happened. As young David is trying to figure out how to get
rid of it, someone knocks on the door. It's Janet and now he really had to hurry.
David is having a Person vs. Person
conflict in this story, because it is David vs. the Turd. It is also Person vs.
Person because there is someone who is waiting outside the door and he has to
hurry or that person, Janet, is going to get mad. Lastly it is Person vs. Self, because
if David would have just left it there, he could have just not had this problem
in the first place. The only reason he doesn’t leave it is because he doesn’t want
to be humiliated if someone thinks it was him. In the end David just ends up using
a toilet plunger to break up the specimen in the toilet so that it will flush.
To make an excuse he washes his hair while the toilet flushed.
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