In the book “A Child Called It” the main type of conflict and the only type is person vs. person. Examples from the story that help prove this is when Dave’s mother constantly abuses him. Some of the things that she has done so far in the story is make him sit in a corner for hours without any food or drinks, and no play time. She has also smashed his face into mirrors, tables, floors, and many more objects breaking bones in his face and chipping his teeth in the process. She also makes him starve for days and makes sure he doesn’t get any water either, and when he does get something it’s usually leftovers from his brothers meals, which isn’t much. Another incident that occurred during the story that they haven’t gone over much is when Dave’s mother stabbed him with a knife in the chest area because he did something wrong.
Personally I believe having snow days are a good thing to have and there is nothing wrong with having an overabundance of them. If you have a snow day or two in one week that’s beneficial to everyone whether it is a student, teacher, or administrator. Everyone needs a break here and there to just sleep in and relax, enjoy a nice family day or a time to hang out with your friends. Also it helps because it gives you time to get in some make up work and finish your assignments without feeling rushed to get it done in one night. Teachers also benefit and do the same things students do because I bet they want to sleep in and just enjoy a nice day off once in a while. Plus they have work that needs to get graded as well so it helps them tremendously. But, if you have a lot of snow days I still don’t see what’s wrong with it as long as you make the days up. It would be smarter to make it up in the trimester in which the days were missed so they should plan on having a bad winter every year before they plan something during that time (like the ACT thing Mr. Spence mentioned.) They should give us all of the snow days that are even considered worthy just for safety measures as well!
After reading a chapter and a half of the book “A Child Called It” I have met 5 characters in the story so far. The characters are all a family, with it being the mom, dad, the main character (Dave), and his 2 other siblings that are brothers. The relationships change throughout the story, because once the dad leaves the family that’s when the mom begins to turn crazy and abuses her son Dave. When the family is all together and happily living together, everyone is getting along and everyone loves each other. This would be an example of mutualism seeing how everyone is benefiting from one another and nobody is getting hurt. But the relationship between the mother and Dave after the father leaves would be a parasitic relationship because the mother is benefiting in her own weird way and is hurting her son Dave with how she treats him with the games, lack of food, and making him sleep on the cold basement floor. I have yet to figure out the relationship between the brothers, but I’m hoping I will find out soon. There will probably be more relationships to come in the story and I am looking forward to reading more!
Two types of symbiotic relationships in the story A Rose For Emily are parasitism and amensalism. parasitism is shown in the story when old lady Emily kills old man Homer with poison, keeps him in the home that they live in, and doesnt tell a single person that he is there. it is a parasite relationship because homer is a homosexual male who did not want to be with Emily, but the grumpy old lady made him stay by killing him with rat poison. So, she benefited from the end result, and homer clearly was harmed in the process. Lastly, there is a amensalism relationship because Emily makes her servant do all the shopping for her. this shows amensalism because she is benefiting from the relationship by not having to leave the house and talk to other people or have people see what she looks like. then the serevant doesnt really gain or lose anything because that is his
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