This unit focuses on different types of conflicts in literary texts. In stories, characters can face
internal conflict within themselves, or they
can face external conflict with other people,
nature, or society.
Think of a conflict in a story that you've read
recently, either in class or on your own. What
type of conflict-internal conflict or external
conflict-did the protagonist (main
character) face? What did the character
learn from the conflict? Was the character
able to overcome the conflict
Discuss whether you think the conflict in the
story is a situation that could happen in real
life and if the solution would have worked in
the real world.

Read the excerpt from ernest hemingway’s “soldier's home.” his father was in the real estate business and always wanted the car to be at his command when he required it to take clients out into the country to show them a piece of farm property. the car always stood outside the first national bank building where his father had an office on the second floor. now, after the war, it was still the same car. nothing was changed in the town except that the young girls had grown up. how does hemingway’s description of the town as unchanged impact the readers’ perception of krebs? it emphasizes that while the town has remained the same, krebs has changed. it illustrates that krebs despises the town he grew up in because it is boring. it demonstrates that krebs views himself as similar to the other soldiers from his town. it reveals that krebs is jealous of those who were able to stay in town and avoid the war.