Claim
Title, author, literary device, arguable idea.
Parts of a quote integration.
Context, speaker, reporting verb, quote, citation.
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Types of conflict
Character vs. Character, Self, Nature, Technology, Society, Supernatural
Motivation
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Shirley Jackson uses person vs. society conflict to show the townspeople's tradition.
Title
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When she drew the mean picture of her teacher, "Big fat mean Mr. Stealing teacher" (Henkes 15).
Speaker + reporting verb.
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In “The Lottery,” Shirley Jackson uses person vs. society conflict to emphasize Tessie’s desire to disrupt the town’s tradition in order to survive.
Person vs. society conflict
Tessie's desire to survive
An old man grapples with guilt over his time at war.
Character vs. Self
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In Langston Hughes's short story "Thank You, Ma'am", a young boy named Roger tries to steal a woman's purse.
Survival, greed, etc.
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In "Thank You, Ma'am," character vs. character conflict emphasizes Roger's need to survive.
Author
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Mrs. Jones relates, "You ought to be my son" (Hughes 1).
Context
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During the events of “All Summer in a Day,” by Ray Bradbury, Margot’s classmates create a character vs. character conflict, revealing their jealous motives.
Character vs. character conflict
Margot's classmates' jealous motives.
Dorothy hides in a shelter against a tornado.
Character vs. Nature
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In Richard Matheson's "Button, Button," a woman is offered $50,000 if she presses a button, but doing so will cause a stranger to die.
Curiosity, greed, etc.
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In "The Things They Carried," Tim O'Brien shows Ted Lavender's motivation of fear.
Type of conflict.
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When discussing using a new box, the narrator describes, no one liked to upset even as much tradition as was represented by the black box (Jackson 2).
Missing quotation marks!
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In "Thank You, Ma'am," Langston Hughes uses character vs. character conflict to reveal Mrs. Jones's empathetic nature.
Character vs. character
Mrs. Jones's empathetic nature
A security guard has to survive against a haunted animatronic.
Character vs. Supernatural
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In Ray Bradbury's "All Summer in a Day," children who have lived their whole lives in constant rain on Venus lock a classmate in a closet because she remembers the sun.
Jealousy, anger, etc.
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In uses to emphasize
Title, author, conflict/literary device, arguable idea/motivation
When listing all their resources, the narrator describes "men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to" (O'Brien 12)
Missing period after the citation
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Nnamabia's mother's maternal love is shown by the character vs. society conflict in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "Cell One."
Character vs. society conflict
Nnamabia's mother's maternal love
Katniss Everdeen rages against the social hierarchy of the Capitol.
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In Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery," villagers follow a dangerous annual ritual simply because 'it has always been done this way.'
Tradition, ritual, etc.