The plot of a story is the action. The plot revolves around a conflict or problem. There are five main types of conflicts:
- Person vs. person (problem with another character)
- Person vs. society (problem with the laws or beliefs of a group)
- Person vs. nature (problem with force of nature such as a blizzard)
- Person vs. self (problem with deciding what to do or think)
- Person vs. fate (problem that seems to be uncontrollable)
That struggle builds until it reaches a crisis or a turning point. That moment is the climax.
- Describe one conflict in the novel.
- How would you have reacted if you were facing that same conflict?
- Respond to a classmate's comment about the conflict.
Example:
I think that the main conflict in The Summer of the Swans is that Charlie wanders off and Sara has to go find him. This is a a person vs. person conflict because she is having a problem with another person. I also think it might be a person vs. self because she had to decide what to do about it. I think I would have done the same thing. I would have felt too guilty if something had happened to him and I didn't do anything about it.
The main character is miranda.I chose the word confused because she all ways watches the people in the doll house she never tells anyone what she sees in the doll house. I think she is confused so she goes up there to find out more about the doll house.
ReplyDeleteIn the book the main charicter is Miranda. She is also my favorite charicter in the book I like her because she is very interesting and cool. She basically goes up in an atic and spends most of her time by the doll house. And the doll house has evil powers that make people around her tourn mean. I LOVE THIS BOOK!!!
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The main character of this book is Miranda. One of the conflicts in the novel was that Mirandas Aunt Belle ended up being mean and beating her child and that has never happened! She says that it is because of the house. Miranda is really scared. How I would have reacted if I was facing the same coflict is I would go crazy. I would be really scared! I would say "Aunt Belle, this isn't like you. You need to leave. I'm sorry, but this scent is just seeming to tell me everything" because she said that she kept smelling this flower from the 1904 setting. Erika, is who I agree with, there is a TON of evil powers. :o
ReplyDeleteAlexis M. Period 7
The main charecter would have to be Miranda. One of the conflicts were Lucinda and Dorthy. Lucinda took dorthy and threw her in the attic and was gonna leave her there till mr.Galsworthy came home. mrs.galsworthy was going on a train and she ended updieing on that train because it crashed that was the big train crash of 1904.
ReplyDeleteI think the conflict is person vs.fate because it's hard for her to control the dollhouse.When she looks at the house the time period picks it self sort of because when Miranda wanted to watch Dorthy in the third part she watched the Kramers.
ReplyDeleteHolly L. Period 7
I think the conflict is human vs. fate because Miranda has no control over what happens to her family after she looks inside the dollhouse, she can't prevent it from happening in reality.
ReplyDeleteMarissa M. Period 4
I think the conflict in the book time windows to my life is the doll house because when I was littel I used to play with an doll house and when I was done I felt a littel bitt of terror because I could not stand having the dolls looking at me or anything. I used to think that my dolls would wake up from there plastic and go up in my bed room and, attake me in my sleep I just could not have them in my room I was terafied to my stomich I just could not breath so I am no.
ReplyDeletePeriod 4 Erika. C
to me the conflict is person vs. fate because her mom is feeling and acting strange because of the house. i think that there is a uncontrolable evil haunting the house that is making the moms that live in the house hurt their kids.
ReplyDeleteerin D. period 1
i agree with holly L. about the conflict
ReplyDeleteerin D.
if my mom was acting strange and being mean to me and i knew the history of the house i would be scared and never ride a train in my life
ReplyDeleteerin D. period 1
I think the main conflict in Time Windows is Person vs. Fate conflict because Miranda (the main character) keeps going up to the dollhouse and the terror is uncontrolable.But she keeps finding clues unvealing the past. If I was Miranda, I would be going to Mrs. Wainwrights house like every day to find out more information on the house.
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The conflict in the novel is Person vs. Fate because when Miranda finds Dorathy dead in the secret room in the attic, she cant really control what,happend.If I was miranda I'd be really scared and never want to go up in the attic EVER again. I agree with Abby T 2nd period because it defintly makes sence that one reason it is Person vs. Fate because the terror is uncontrolable.
ReplyDeleteMaddie W 2nd period
I think it is wired that they finnally founed the hiding spot for slaves. Marrandas house was part of the under ground railroud which I think is cool I know a teacher named Mr Phillps and his house was part of an under growned railroud. That was my fifth grade teacher last year.
ReplyDeleteI think that Miranda her problem is Person vs. Fate and Person vs. Self also because the stuff that is happining in the dollhouse so she has that problem. Then her 2nd problem is she is having a hard time adjusting to Dorthey being found in the secret room.
ReplyDeleteEmily L.
Period 2
Wow-- nice job. You don't need me involved in this blog. You are right on. I like Abby and Maddie's comments. Maddie mentions the secret hiding place for slaves in Miranda's attic. I suggest you go re-read this part in the 3/4 of the book. It is where Miranda, Dan and Miranda's dad find the hiding spot. What do they find and how could that be?
ReplyDeleteI think the main conflict in this book is person vs. fate, because Miranda is dealing with the fate of Dorthy, the 1904 8-year-old. It is also partly person vs. person, being Miranda vs. Lucinda (and Helen and Belle, but they're both taken over by Lucinda.) If I was in the same situation, I would still go up into the attic and look into the doll house for three reasons: 1. My curiosity, 2. My LOOOVE of mysteries, and 3. What's a mystery unsolved? (Meaning, how would the mystery be solved if Miranda would stop looking into the doll house?) I agree with Marissa M. (4th block) because she said person vs. fate.
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ReplyDeletei think the conflict is person vs self because she is trying to thimk what is right or wrong and is getting all "confused" when she goes to the dollhouse. it is also person vs fate because she is going through the terror which is uncontrollable
i think two things person v.s self and person v.s fate. I think person v.s self because she doesn't know what she is going to do about the dollhouse she feels like she can't tell anyone and she is overwhelmed.I also think person v.s fate because a problem she has are her terrors and thirstyness and she can't control them and she gets scared and her mom says its just her growing up.
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I think finding the conflict of a mystery novel is easier than finding the conflict of novels of other genres. In a mystery the character is trying to solve the mystery. In this mystery novel the goal is for Miranda to solve the mystery of the dollhouse before it destroys her family. That is the conflict. Many plot events support this. We can point to a specific plot event when she reaches her goal.
ReplyDeletei think the main conflict is person vs. fate because miranda cant controll whats happening to her family. and i think it is person vs. self because miranda thinks she cant tell anyone about the doll houes
ReplyDelete:*) katie a (*:
I think that the main conflict in Time Windows is Person vs Fate. An example would be that Miranda is so confused about what is going on with her house that it becomes an uncontrollable problem. It also could be Person vs self because Miranda cannot decide what to think or do about the dollhouse. I agree with Emily F.,and Maddie W., posts.
ReplyDeleteHanna M. 6th block
In time windows miranda's conflict is person vs. person. Or in this case person vs. thing i think the conflict is with miranda and the evil in the house. The evil in the house is making the woman who live there go mad and miranda tries to solve why and she trys to stop it from making her own mom from going mad
ReplyDeleteJessica M. Period Uno
The main conflict is person vs. fate but only at the beginning. the main conflict is when lucinda galworthy shuting her child into the attic and leaving her there to wait till sigmund galworthy gets home but dorthy galworthy is gone and he suspects that she died with her mom in the 1904 train wreck. but she actually died in the attic in the secret room where she suffacated.
ReplyDeletebut then miranda relizes that she still wanted to be alive so miranda goes back in time thruogh the doll house and gave dorthy the key and she ended up living and miranda meets dorthys great granddaughter.
Allison S. first period
The conflict with person v.s. person is acutally more like person v.s thing (house). Miranda is having trouble with the house because the house is EVIL!!!!! So the house is taking over mirandas family members and i thnk that the house is evil because lucindas ghost haunts the house because she feels gulity. And she knows that because she sees lucinda do something in the doll house then it happens to her own mother helan!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI agree with Abby T. with the conflit being person vs. fate because Miranda is confused about her house and the dollhouse up in her attic and they are starting to get uncontrollalbe. If I were Miranda i would go to Dan and Mrs. Wainwright to find out more about my house and what happened to Dorthy.
ReplyDeleteCassie period 2
If all the wemen that meet presents with the house act like lucinda then was lucinda the one who started it all or was there some one before her
ReplyDeleteI think that the conflict is person vs fate because it is the fate that the dollhouse will kill them.
ReplyDeleteStephen H. 2'
I still think its Person vs. Fate. I think it is Miranda vs. Fate, because Miranda has to deal with the fate of Dorthy. I also now think its Dorthy vs. Fate, because Dorthy has to deal with the fate of herself, being locked up in the secret compartment and dying.
ReplyDelete--Emily F., Block 2
IT IS NOT PERSON VS.PERSON!!!!!!!! If it was she would have to have a problem like in Mango Shaped Space. In that book she has a problem where she sees peoples names in color and she doesnt know how to deal with it soooo that would be person vs. person!!!!!
ReplyDeleteEmily L.
Period 2
um emlily l, this is time windows..... anyways,
ReplyDeleteI think the conflict in time windows is that miranda must figure out why all the ladies of her house are being possesed before it becomes her turn. This is person vs. fate, beacause, all of these events in the past are affecting the future. could it be lucinda's evil spirit possesing the female members of the house after she died in the train wreck? Why is dorothy's body in the secret tunnel? this is all decided by fate, unless miranda solves the riddles and saves her family.
Rosie M. block 4
i think the conflict in 'time windows' is person vs. self. i think this because miranda feels like she is being 'pulled to the dollhouse, and for some odd reason, she keeps having these uncontrollable 'panick attacks'. i think this is a person vs. self because miranda is almost 'battling' herself in trying to decide if she should watch the dollhouse or not. if i was in this same conflict, i think i would've told somebody, unlike miranda, which she never told anybody about them. i also agree with emily f. because the book is almost like person vs. fate on account to dorathy, and that's what emily said. lexi t. period 4
ReplyDeleteI think its person vs. person because Miranda keeps talking to dorothy through the dollhouse and now i think they're friends because they're helping eachother with there families curse
ReplyDeleteFrom,Sarah W.
i htink the main conflict is person vs. fate because miranda cant controll what is happening with the doll house. i agree with emily l.it is person vs fate
ReplyDeletekatie a 6th period:)
person vs fate as in the doll house. i would have been freaked out.i agree with lexi. elizabeth s 6
ReplyDeleteI think the main conflict is person vs. person because Miranda is being told things to help Dorothy out. She is helping her through the doll house and the doll house is turning her mother into Lucinda.
ReplyDeleteAlexis M.
Block 7
I think one conflict is person vs. fate because when Dan,Miranda,and Miranda's Dad find the dead boby in the sercert compartment.It as if Miranda wants to forget about the body but she can't. Fnding Dorthy is an unstoppable terrible feeling for Miranda.
ReplyDeleteHooly L. Period 7
i think the conflict is person vs. person, miranda vs. Dorothy because she finds Dorothy in the secret compartment and wants to know what dorothy wants for her self so Dorothy is the conflict. She then finds that Dorothy dosen't want to be buried she wants to not have died in the first place so she has to figure out how to give dorothy want she wants.
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I think the conflict is person vs fate.The conflict is miranda vs the doll house spirit/ ghost. It is fate because she can not stop herself from going to the attic to watch the people inside. stephanie b. 2nd period
ReplyDeleteLet me see if I can clear up some misconceptions. A conflict of a story is a problem the main character is trying to solve or a goal he/she is trying to reach. I think the conflict of Time Windows is Miranda trying to solve the mystery of the dollhouse. Now- the climax of a story is the turning point. I think the climax of Time Windows is when Miranda figures out that Lucinda is trying to tell her to dig up the key and place it in the dollhouse. Then the falling action is where the problem is solved, goal reached, conflict resolved. I think that the climax of Time Windows is when Miranda successfully digs up the key and places it in the dollhouse. Dorothy can then use the key to let herself out of the attic and does not die.
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