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Between The Lines Internal Conflict

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Between the Lines character, Delilah, faces internal and external conflict. In the fairy tale,
Delilah becomes obsessed with her fairy tale book Between the Lines. She begins to shut out the outside world all for a little childrens fairy tale book. This book makes her life very complicated and makes her face decisions and challenges almost everyday. She soon comes to realize she does not want to escape her world, but wants one of the characters in her fairy tale to become part of hers.
Delilah faces internal and external conflict at school because she wants to fit in, but she makes it almost impossible by hurting the most popular girl in school twice. This external conflict is partially resolved when she makes her only friend, Jules, and …show more content…

Admitting that she talks to a book would make her even more of an outcast at school. She also faced external conflict with trying to figure out what to do, who to tell, and how she would get him out of the book. Through tests and ideas, Delilah lost hope until one day she got sucked into the book. She realized she never wanted to leave her world and became more understanding of what her mother wanted of her. She saw Oliver's vision and when she returned to her world she went to find the one seen in Oliver's vision, the author. This author had stopped writing after the death of her husband and was very cautious while talking to Delilah. She got through to the author and made the connection that Oliver was based off her son Edgar. He thought it was stupid because he felt he would never live up to this Oliver character. Edgar plays video games for most of the day and Delilah got the feeling he might be the one to show Oliver to. He refused to allow himself to think that Oliver is really alive in the story, but came to see that he really is alive. After she tried to retype the ending, it failed multiple times. While Delilah was asleep, Edgar rewrote the story and when she woke up, she realized Edgar and Oliver switched places. Edgar wanted to escape his world so he could be the hero for once. Her conflicts were mostly resolved except for the fact that she was a long ways from home and her mother was very upset that she ran

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