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A character is a person or sometimes an animal or other being in a story. Examples: short story, novel, play, poem

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A problem that characters face in a story.A struggle between two or more opposing forces.Often the climax of the story is connected to the conflict.The story’s resolution relies on the outcome of the conflict, meaning the problem is settled in some way.

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A struggle within the mind of a character which creates suspense in the plot. The character struggles within himself to make a choice, take an action, or overcome a feeling. Can arise from opposing feelings, beliefs, needs, desires, or demands

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When a character has a problem inside of themselves, an internal conflict.

Being near starvation and considering stealing food but knowing that stealing is wrong.

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A character struggles against an outside force such as another character or nature. Conflicts that involve action we can “see” happening.

Not within the thoughts of the characters

There are many types of external conflicts .

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When a character has a problem with weather, animals, or some other element of nature. Example A flooding river threatens the lives and homes of those nearby.

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Brian Robeson, 13 year old boy (pg 1)

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Cessna 406 small plane flying over the green northern wilderness (pg 2)

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"...as the plane clawed for altitude..." (pg 2)

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Jim or Jake the pilot (pg 2)

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"...sea of green trees..." (p 2)

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"...the engine was so loud, so roaring..."

(pg 2)

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"...I felt like a prisoner..." (pg 9)

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"Stop, he thought. Stop now. Stop that thinking"

(pg 62)

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...small airport in Hampton New York...

(pg2)

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...mother...

(pg2)

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...Brian saw dials, switches, meters, knobs, levers, cranks, lights, handles that were wiggling...

(pg2)

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...oil fields of Canada...

(pg3)

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...But the words sounded hollow, even to Brian.

(pg4)

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...the hot white hate of his anger...

(pg4)

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...my chest is coming apart...

(pg5)

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"...take her light..." (pg 3)

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Brian would like his parents to live together. But his parents are divorced. So he solves this problem by taking a plane to visit his dad (pg 2).

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"...dad..." (pg 4)

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"...his eyes snapped open..." ) pg 40

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...."Then the lips made a mmmmm shape but no sound came"..(page 78)

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...."I have a friend now. A hungry friend but a good one. I have a friend named fire "Hello, fire"(page 87)

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His stomach tightened into a series of rolling knots... (pg11)

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...fell into the wide place like a stone...

(pg11)

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...the water trying to kill him...

(pg12)

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THE MEMORY was like a knife cutting into him.

(pg12)

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...a friend named Terry.

(pg12)

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...Amber Mall.

(pg12)

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...a man in the car.

(pg12)

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...in the water they seemed almost like another forest...

(pg16)

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...north woods of Canada.

(pg18)

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...north woods of Canada.

(pg18)

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…He turned back in his seat, feeling the front, and put his hands -still trembling- on the control wheel, his feet gently on the rudder pedals…

(pg 7)

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His whole abdomen was torn...

(pg 26)

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...as the day caught up with him...

(pg30)

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"Unnnngh!" Now he screamed...

(pg30)

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"Unnnngh!" Now he screamed...

(pg30)

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Mmmmm—maaaa.

(pg31)

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"Ahhh..."

(pg32)

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The first faint light hit the silver of the hatchet and it flashed a brilliant gold in the light. Like fire.

(pg32)

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"Unnnngh!" Now he screamed...

(pg 30)

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"Ecch..." It had a greasy, almost oily taste, but it was still an egg.

(pg39)

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...they went on an overnight trip to Cape Hesper to visit relatives...

(pg50)

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Brian had once had an English teacher, a guy named Perpich...

(pg19)

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He had an uncle named Carter...

(pg38)

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...the wind tore at the fire and sprayed red coals and sparks...

(pg56)

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He was whipped against the front wall of the shelter like a rag...

(pg56)

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"Tchbaaak!"

(pg 63)

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"It was a cow and she had no horns, but she took him in the left side of the back with her forehead, took him

and threw him out into the water and then came after him to finish the job."

(pg 55)

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...the mosquitoes that tore into him like a gray, angry cloud.

(pg65)

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It was like all the holidays in the world...

(pg66)

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His fingers gingerly touched a group of needles that had been driven through his pants and into the fleshy part of his calf. They were stiff and very sharp on the ends that stuck out, and he knew then what the attacker had been. A porcupine had stumbled into his shelter and when he had kicked it the thing had slapped him with its tail of quills.

(pg31)

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"...still strapped in the seat, the body of the pilot..." (page 61)

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"...the bear was eating berries. Not people." (page 61)

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"...oceans of trees..." (page 3)

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He got to the camp still hearing the whine of the engine...

(pg44)

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"...as if it were soft cheese..." (p 62)

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...scrambled up like a cat and blew...

(pg44)

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He had never seen a wolf and the size threw him...

(pg45)

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...not as big as a bear...

(pg45)

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"So. So. So here I am"

(pg. 18)

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"Great Gulps"

(pg. 18)

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"Tall Tree"

(pg. 18)

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...the sunburn still cooked his face.

(pg18)

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His stomach tightened into a series of rolling knots... (pg11)

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"...blue blur that he could hear..."(page 17)

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"Slicing deep into him with hate."

(pg.12)

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...dreamless, deep and down.

(pg13)

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"His mind screamed in horror..."

(pg. 64)

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...he had probably swallowed a ton of it...

(pg17)

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".....with the heat came clouds of insects.."

(pg. 15)

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"Swollen Shut"

(pg. 15)

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...more came, thick, whining, buzzing masses of them. Mosquitoes...

(pg15)

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"The plane, committed now to landing...."

(pg. 11)

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"...I have a friend named fire..."

(page 87)

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"...forest, a green carpet, and it was full of life."

(pg. 41)

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There were seventeen of them, each as round as a ball,

(pg38)

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.....Then he made a sound ,a low "Nnnnnnggg"....(page 70)