1. Types of Conflicts
Ms. Feliciano
Expectations: R 10.3

3. What is a conflict?
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4. An INTERNAL conflict that
involves the struggle
between the character and
his/her conscience.
Example: A man tries to
decide whether to stay with
his family or move to
another state to take a
better paying job.

5. An EXTERNAL conflict that
involves a struggle between
the character and the
elements of nature that are
beyond his/her control.
Example: A man is stalked by
a wild animal in the forest.

6. An EXTERNAL conflict that
involves a struggle, mental
or physical, between two
characters in the story.
Example: Two little boys get
into a fistfight.

7. An EXTERNAL conflict that
involves the struggle
between a character and the
rules or laws that govern the
society in which he/she
lives.
Example: A teenager breaks
the curfew set by his
parents.

8. A character has a problem
with ghosts, monsters, or
things not of this world.
Super = Beyond
Natural = this world
Example: A child thinks
that his house is haunted...