Conflicts

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By: Elias Dorsey

Authors note: I am writing this piece to inform my audience about the conflicts in the life of Jenna in “Rules of the Road” by Jean Bauer

            The book “Rules of the Road” has many conflicts, from parents, to customers being rude. All of those aside, today I will be discussing the conflict between Jenna and her mother. First, she comes from a kind of broken home, her dad being an alcoholic, and her mom being a nurse. This is person vs. person conflict. So neither of her parents are there for her when she severely needs them for anything such as talking or having fun. Imagine being at home all day, or at work and coming home from work and having no one to tell about what happened, what the highlight was of your day and what was the downfall if there was one. A solution to this person vs. person conflict would be her mom, if possible, taking off work to see Jenna rather than Jenna sending her cards and such.

            "I need a driver." Mrs. Gladstone sighed. "A driver?..." The second conflict I noticed pretty easily was that her boss was old and kind of, well, bossy. No pun intended. I would also classify this as person vs. person because its Jenna vs. Mrs. Gladstone It seems as though most of the time she has been irked for some cloudy reason, that I couldn’t figure out if I tried. I also see her as a sort of resolution to the first conflict. She serves as a type of motherly figure to Jenna I would think. Also her offer to Jenna to drive her around gives her a form of escape from her family and her problems. Which would be a solution to problem number 2 as she is taking a liking to Mrs. Gladstone during their journey and vice versa.

         Although I haven't gotten very far into "Rules of the Road.", and  I already know that I might take a liking to this piece by Joan Bauer. It's a genuine "real" book. If I didn't know better I would think this was a non-fiction book, because all the stuff in this book, are things I've seen in real life. May it be from friends or from family. Either way this book is a fine piece of work that almost makes me want to read other writing pieces by the same author because of the way she writes it, almost as if she had experienced it and is just writing what she remembers. It's amazing.