Part One of Montana 1948 has established several internal and external conflicts. Internally, what conflicts are Wes and David facing? Give a line that reveals those conflicts. Catch: When you post a response you must comment on what others before you have said and you may not give the same quote/line that someone previously has posted. (Deadline to post a response to this blog is midnight, Tuesday, March11, 2014. No credit will be given to plagiarized responses.)
Monday, March 10, 2014
Conflicts rising...
Part One of Montana 1948 has established several internal and external conflicts. Internally, what conflicts are Wes and David facing? Give a line that reveals those conflicts. Catch: When you post a response you must comment on what others before you have said and you may not give the same quote/line that someone previously has posted. (Deadline to post a response to this blog is midnight, Tuesday, March11, 2014. No credit will be given to plagiarized responses.)
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"And that disappointed me at the time. As long as my father was going to be a sheriff, a position with so much potential for excitement, danger, and bravery, why couldn't some of that promise be fulfilled?"(Page 5, 2nd paragraph)
this is blaine in case my name doesn't show up
"I didn't want to see any of the ways that he [Wes] resembled his brother." (41) Here, David is internally conflicted with obviously his Uncle Frank, but also his dad. As Blaine's quote shows, David already had a deep disappointment in his father, and David does not want to believe that his dad could be even more disappointing. His picture perfect idea of his uncle was just shattered, and he is probably very confused. Everything he knew seems so different now, and he is frightened that his dad could be different too. Blaine's quote choice is a very good one. This shows one of the most distinct inner conflicts of the novel. David's disappointment in his father is almost overwhelming.
As Tara has pointed out, David is definitely internally conflicted with his father. It is obvious that David is disappointed by his father and Tara is absolutely on the dot. One thing that both David and Wes internally come to is the fact that Frank is, indeed, guilty. On page forty-one, David comes to his realization. "Then I knew. She saw him now as she hadn't before. He was not only her husband, he was a brother, and brother to a man who used his profession to take advantage of women, brother to a pervert! And how did I know these were my mother's thoughts? I knew because they were mine." Then, on page forty-three, Wes comes to his realization alongside David. "That was when it came to me. Uncle Frank was my father's brother, and my father knew him as well as any man or woman. And my father knew he was guilty." David and Wes realize the same thing internally at almost the same time. They both internally that Frank is guilty and are coming to the realization that Frank is low-life rapist and molester of sorts. It is almost in perfect sync that both father and son realize the same thing.
In explaining my quote, I think Tara took the words right out of my mouth(not that that is a bad thing); David is disappointed in his dad. He struggles internally, hoping that his father might live up to his profession. In the beginning, even the physical comparison between his father and Uncle Frank further degraded David's opinion of his father. As the book goes on, however, I think that David realizes that his father is a better man than he thinks; he has a new view of Uncle Frank, and when Wes must deliver the news of death to Marie's next of kin, David comes to understand how hard being a sheriff really is. All this ambivalence would be emotionally taxing on anybody, especially a pre-pubescent twelve-year-old boy who already has an enormous emotional load.
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