Characters and conflict!?

16 May 2010 1 Comment

by CrummyCookie in Books and Novels, School Tags: Arguing, Books, Characters, Conflict, Disagreeing, External, Fighting, Internal, Novel, Opinions, School

Our week two for our independent novel study must be about the characters and the conflict that is happening in the novel. Characters and conflict is the happening in a book, it is like fighting, arguing and disagreeing, between people, themselves, nature, and themselves.

My book at the moment is really starting to get interesting but it is so hard to figure things out at this point. There is more of Camilia’s creeper/admirer showing up, he seems more different now and I think my predictions in my previous post was wrong! I think It was her boss, Spencer. I now know for sure that it wasn’t Ben. He is trying to help her with something, and he is really starting to become more interesting. He is hiding something from Camilia, but I think she will get it out of him sooner or later. The book is kind of slow at the moment but I think the author meant to make it like that. It makes a person want to know more about what is going to happen in the end. The book at the moment is more from two peoples point of view, but the second guy (anonymous) is telling his point of view of Camilia and what she has become. Camilia’s point of view shows her friends, family, and sometimes other people too.

There has been a lot of conflict in the book. More people vs. people conflict and sometime Camilia vs. herself. A lot of people have been telling Camilia to stay away from Ben because he is a so-called ”murderer,” which I think is not true. People don’t know Ben the way Camilia does. Ben is opened with her and he also trusts her. I thought in the beginning there was some conflict between Ben and Camilia but now I know why. He use to grab her and hurt her, but now I know the reason why. Ben is psychometric, the ability to sense things through touch. When he touched Camilia his mind went away and he couldn’t help himself hurting her because of his power. He tried in the beginning but couldn’t help himself. That is what made Kimmie concerned, There is a couple of times that Kimmie and Camilia got into arguments about Ben and then there were times were Camilia and her ex boyfriend, Matt kind of got into arguments with Camilia. Matt doesn’t trust Ben. And he is trying to stop her from talking to him. But that is kind of hard since they are Chemistry partners. In the beginning of the novel there weren’t much conflict, only between Ben and Camilia. When Ben was hurting Camilia and being all psychometric. But that started changing after time. He still hurt her, the only people who cared was her friends, she didn’t. Then conflict continued with the creepy picture and stuff Camilia has been getting.That was more Camlilia arguing with herself. Then the conflict with Mr.anonymous, he has been having arguments and threats to himself and how he is getting mad at Camilia because apparently she is wanting attention for guys ( Not true ) but that is what he thinks. He has his own rude opinions, and he is going to try to change Camilia because he has a plan. I think the plan is going to have the biggest conflict in the book. I think that is going to be the Climax and then suddenly there will be a solution for everything. There will be answers to all the unanswered questions.  The conflict right now is more external than internal. With both Camilia and Mr.Anymous. In the beginning of the book it started more with external conflict than internal, with Ben hurting Camilia and not knowing what people were thinking. In the beginning of the book it was more telling about people who expressing feeling, there was some but now there is a lot more. Camilia has become more selfish caring about herself and her mom, not much about her friends and tell much about them. Anymous has become more caring for Camilia, he thinks he knows what is right for her, I don’t think so.

The only characters that I dislike is Camilia’s parents and Mr.Anymous. Her parents don’t talk much to Camilia and Camilia’s often says something about her parents, but stuff that makes her worry and then she is not able to tell her parents about the weird stuff that has been happening. Like they don’t even really care. I don’t like Mr.Anymous because he is just creeping on Camilia and rude the way he talks about Camilia in the book. But I guess that would just make it a good ending. I think it will because there is a lot happening but it is hard and confusing. For al that I know Mr.Anymous could not be one of the characters that Camilia has mentioned, It might be someone who we haven’t learned much about. But that Is what I think will give it a really good or boring ending.

The author gives more about what the character are like then what they look like. The author give some description of what they look like but not much at all, here and there it would be really quick if there was a description of what they looked like. The author talk more about feeling and opinions on the characters than anything else. I like this idea better because this is what makes a book good.

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