Question

millie’s teacher expects her to come in during paws, she would rather go to the library. millie doesn’t want to disappoint her teacher and she doesn’t want to miss out on time in the library. can you say dilemma? marvin can’t find his baseball cards anywhere. marvin begins looking through gilbert’s bureau and finds the cards. this is the last time marvin’s little brother steals marvin’s stuff. determined to teach gilbert a lesson, marvin walks up to gilbert and pinches gilbert in the ear. internal vs. external conflict you choose part 1: decide whether the conflicts in the chart below are external or external. if a particular conflict is external, then decide if it is individual vs. individual, individual vs. self, individual vs. nature, or individual vs. society. write this answer in the same box where you wrote internal/external. internal or external | conflict a friend tells you that she wants you to go to her birthday party on saturday night, but your mother has planned a family outing. in addition, your cousin is coming to town and she is expecting you to go to the movies with her. in the hallway at school, you get angry at a friend and you push her into a group of other students who are talking. she pushes you back and you find yourself in a fight. you are planting a garden for your mother for mother’s day when it starts to rain. it’s impossible to work outside, but mother’s day is tomorrow and you are nowhere near done. you are overloaded with homework. you know your teacher won’t give you an extension, so you quickly complete your work in order to get a c. when the teacher returns your paper, you are extremely disappointed that you didn’t spend a lot of time on your work.

Explanation:

First Conflict (Friend's party, family outing, cousin's movie)

This conflict is external because it involves competing demands from others (friend, mother, cousin). It's individual vs. society (broadly, social expectations from different relationships) or more precisely individual vs. multiple individuals, but the key is external as it's outside the self. So it's External (Individual vs. Multiple Individuals/Society - but core is External).

This is an external conflict as it's a physical altercation between two individuals (you and your friend). So it's External (Individual vs. Individual).

This is an external conflict as it's a struggle against nature (rain) which is outside the self. So it's External (Individual vs. Nature).

Answer:

External (Individual vs. Multiple Individuals)

Second Conflict (Fight in hallway)