This week’s special assignment is based on conflict.  I’d like you to: 1)            Discuss two conflicts in your novel. 2)            Predict how you think the main character/protagonist is going to react to it.  3)             Imagine how you’d react in this situation and explain in detail what you’d if you were in this situation.      Your response should be a page in length.  It will be marked for  ideas, organization and voice. Please see the notes below.   A clash of ideas, actions, desires, or will is called CONFLICT.   There are three major types of conflict.  In varying degrees, they may ALL be present in a novel, but only one will emerge as the main conflict by the end of the story.   MAN vs. MAN:  The protagonist finds him/herself pitted against another person or persons.   MAN vs. ENVIRONMENT:  the protagonist is pitted against some larger, external force, such as nature, society, or fate.   MAN vs. HIMSELF:  the protagonist must struggle with himself and some element in his own nature.                    i.e.   Frank is an alcoholic.                    i.e.   Mrs. Parker has a violent temper.