QUESTION A

QUESTION A:

• "How do the conflicts that the protagonist (hero)" part 1
• "of your historical fiction novel struggles against" part 2
• "help make the protagonist heroic?" Part 3
• Allison Miller
• 3rd hour

PROTAGONIST

• Definition: main character in your book
• Hero

HERO

• Definition: a person who is courageous
• A person who saves lives
• A person who stands up for what they believe in
• A brave person

CONFLICT

• Definition: when people get into a fight
• Disagreement
• Struggle
• Battle

INMAN

• He is in his mid 30's during this story
• Male
• He is handsome, tall, and has brown hair

PROTAGONIST

• My protagonist is Inman
• I know this because he is the one being described
• I also know because he is the hero (fighter) in my book
• He is also the first person talked about in my book

PROTAGONIST

• "The ball that hit Inman had already passed through" part 1
• "Veasey's shoulder and as a result did not strike with full briskness." Part 2 Pg 228
• "It took Inman in the side of the head at his hairline and ran along his skull"part 1
• "between hide and bone, routing a shallow groove there as it passed." Part 2 page 288

PROTAGONIST

• The second one shows how he knew what was happening , yet he didn't complain.
• The first passage tells how he is a fighter for surviving one bullet already.

CONFLICT EXAMPLES

• Inman is facing a rude farmer about something that wasn't his fault
• Inman is trying to find his way back home to Ada with wounds
• Inman is forced to marry someone when he doesn't even know or like her
• And many more that I'm not going to share

CONFLICT PASSAGES

• "They plowed at the ground with their snouts and dug out" part 1
• "arms and feet and head, and soon Inman found himself" part 2
• "uprooted, staring in the eye to eye, forlorn and hostile" part 3
• "and baffled, into the long face of a great tushed boar." Part 4
• Page 229 ^ go on to the rest of the conflict (next slide)

CONFLICT PASSAGES

• "The boar shied off a few feet and stopped and looked back at him" part 1
• "dumbfounded, his little eyes blinking. Inman prised his length" part 2
• "out of the ground. To rise and bloom again, that became his wish." Part 3
• Pg.229

IN THIS HE'S STRUGGLING

• It's telling you how he had been shot and lied in a hole for days
• He is proving himself to be a fighter and a survivor
• His main struggle in this passage is that he is not very strong yet he attempted
• He made it out because he actually attempted something extraordinary

CONFLICT PASSAGES

• "There was too much open ground to feel good about walking by day, " part 1
• "and by night there was pistol fire and torchlight, the roads so full of dark riders " part 2
• "that Inman spent as much time hiding in ditches and haystacks as walking." part 3
• "He reckoned the riders were Home Guard, all drunk as coon hunters greeting the dawn." Part 4
• "Out searching for the Federals broken free from the Salisbury jail." Part 5 ((PAGE 260)) ^^

IN THIS HE'S STRUGGLING

• Inman is trying to avoid Home Gaurd
• He has to hide along his journey just as much as he has to walk
• The author is showing that Inman is struggling to find hiding spots etc.

CONFLICTS THAT MAKE INMAN HEROIC

• "When they were done with the sawing, the branch was strewn with bull parts," Part one
• "which they soon dragged out and left far aground." Part 2 (page 208)

CONFLICTS THAT MAKE INMAN HEROIC

• "She was such a helpless thing, lying there without even consciousness as defense."part 1
• "Exposed to every danger guarded only by the rare goodwill of the random world."part 2
• "I ought yet to kill that shitpoke preacher, Inman thought." Part 3
• "He carried her to the house and set her down in a patch of tansy by the stoop." Part 4
• Page 120^^^^

THIS MADE HIM HEROIC

• The first passage makes him heroic because he helped a man cut a tree
• He helped instead of letting him get crushed by it
• He's being generous
• He saved the man's life

THIS MADE HIM HEROIC

• The second one is heroic because he saved a woman that was being beaten by a preacher
• He took her to her own home and set her down safely away from the preacher
• He got revenge with the preacher for her

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Dictionary.com. N.p., n.d. Web. Dec-Jan. 2013. .
• Frazier, Charles. Cold Mountain. Archaic inscriptions. New York: Random house, 1997. Print.
• J, Kirsten, and Cianna K. "Literary Terms." Be Cool and Write. Herr Schuster, n.d. Web. 12 Dec. 2013. .
• "Types of Conflict Found In Literature." Storyboard That. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Dec. 2013. .