What Is The Conflict In Refugee By Alan Gratz

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Alan Gratz’s book, Refugee, is about 3 unique stories having different characters, plot, setting and time. Despite those differences, there is one that all stories share throughout the whole book, the conflict. The conflict of the story is when a problem arises to the protagonist because of the antagonists. There are 3 main types of this, character vs self, character vs nature and last but not least character vs society. Character vs society is when the protagonist is opposing the society such as when Josef, a refugee, was against the Cuban government, when Isabel was against the Bahamian law and when Mahmoud, another refugee, was against the Hungarian soldiers. Which is why the most prominent conflict in Refugee is character vs society because …show more content…

Louis and Josef could not get into Cuba as the Cuban government declined them. In the text, Captain Shrouder had said that he had just gone to see President Bru so that they could disembark but instead of accepting them, he said that they must leave the harbor by tomorrow. In addition, this relates to the main argument as it shows how Captain Shrouder actually went to negotiate with the president but he rejected them, proving how Josef was not allowed into Cuba. The protagonist, the refugees, are opposing the Cuban government, the antagonist, making the government the society and the refugees the characters. Furthermore, the text also stated that Officer Pedron said that Evelyn and Renata could leave because they had the “right” papers, papers being visas. Again, this connects to the main argument because it shows why Josef and the refugees could not leave while Evelyn and Renata could, that reason being that they had the right “papers'' or legal documents. In support of this, it shows that character vs society is the most prominent conflict because Officer Pedron, the society, is clearly lying about needing the legal documents as refugees also have the so called, “legal documents.” Thus, Josef’s story demonstrated many reasons why character vs society is the most prominent

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