Conflict is the opposition of persons or forces that gives rise to the dramatic action in a drama or fiction, (Merriam Webster Online Dictionary). A conflict is the fire that drives a story; it develops the characters and draws the reader into the story. Without a conflict a story would be a body without life, it would be a sentence without a subject, it would be incomplete. For both stories "Surrounded by Sleep" and "Desiree's Baby" the authors use conflict as a key element of their story, and they resolved the conflict in a way that teaches the readers an important lesson.
[...] The importance of conflict in the short stories we have read Conflict is the opposition of persons or forces that gives rise to the dramatic action in a drama or fiction, (Merriam Webster Online Dictionary). A conflict is the fire that drives a story; it develops the characters and draws the reader into the story. Without a conflict a story would be a body without life, it would be a sentence without a subject, it would be incomplete. For both stories “Surrounded by Sleep” and “Desiree's Baby” the authors use conflict as a key element of their story, and they resolved the conflict in a way that teaches the readers an important lesson. [...]
[...] The conflict develops the story because all the readers thought that the wife was mixed and then at the end of the story after all the horrible things that the husband has done to the wife we find out that the husband is mixed and not the wife. This conflict is one that possesses an ironic twist that captures the reader's interest in the story, and makes it a great one. If we did not understand the conflict then we would not understand the whole point of the story, or the message the author [...]
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