Book report post #5 Conflicts

There are many conflicts in Jason’s Gold. Jason is constantly having problems and he has to work through them. He faces many challenges, and each one sets him back. Jason must have had a hard year in the Klondike!

One internal conflict he has happens when he goes to hunt a moose. He thought the moose was dead or unconscious, until he went closer. The moose stood up and started charging Jason. The moose flipped Jason into the air with his antlers, and when Jason landed, he broke many bones and he went unconscious. He woke up in a cabin owned by one of the early gold miners. If the cabin owner wouldn’t have taken him in, Jason probably would have died. Jason now had to decide whether to wait the winter out or not. He kept saying to himself that if he got in a canoe all bundled up, he could float on the river to Dawson City. The miner said that he needed time to heal, and the river would freeze before Jason made it. The conflict is resolved when Jason decides to wait the winter out and heal. He made the right choice, because the river froze in the next few days.

An external conflict he had with other people is that he needs an outfit with all the food in it, and a boat to go across the lakes with. Jason works for other people to get food and money at first. He knows he needs to buy an outfit, so he goes around asking people who quit if he can buy an outfit. Everyone refuses, saying they need money to go back home. Finally, Jason finds an old friend, Jack, who says that he can have the outfit that his partner had left in exchange for a book. Jason carries his pack little by little all the way to the lakes. He still needs a boat to get him to Dawson City. He asks everyone if he can ride with their group, but no one has room left. He is sitting down at the front of rapids, when a man says he will pay him $10 to throw a rope to him if he tips his canoe in the rapids. Of course, the man swamps his canoe. Jason throws him the rope, and as he is pulling him in, he sees his chance. Jason gives the man his $10 back in return for his canoe. Jason finally had a ride to Dawson. The conflict is resolved when he gets the pack from Jack, and when the man gives Jason the canoe.

I would have handled those conflicts the same way. I would be so desperate to move on in the Klondike, that I would have literally asked everyone to help me, and pay people a lot, to get me moving to Dawson.