Lesson 13

[penny WINGERT]

Penny Wingert, Rena argues with Peanut that she’s too close to the alien women and realizes she doesn’t.t trust peanut. Alien players jockey for human interaction because they are insecure. Peanut

fights with Rena because she finds her controlling irrational. What I learn3ed from this is people do not act in loving ways always

[Madeleine Vessel]

Madeleine’s Delivers Insights Through Conflict (place in first line)

What I learned doing this assignment is that conflict can deliver new ways/insights. It can provoke someone to tell the truth, uncover a secret, bring out someone’s true nature, and uncover an emotional issue among others. Very interesting!

New Way/Insights I want to deliver and the conflict that new way/insight might show up in:

1. Anna-Maude hates Monsoon Season because everything bad that has happened to her happened during that season.

The new insight I want to deliver is this: Monsoon Season in the desert is beautiful and exhilarating.

The conflict this might show up in could be an argument between Anna-Maude and her best friend, Stella, where Anna-Maude first declares she hates Monsoon Season ”Rattlesnakes, ants, centipedes, every kind of horror rising up from the earth. Every year, I pray to God I live through it.”

Stella might counter with, “As far as I’m concerned, there’s nothing more exhilarating than lightning, thunder, and pounding rain in the desert.”

This might lead to Stella’s blaming how and where Anna-Maude lives for the way she feels.

2. Tony has caught a man trespassing on his father’s farm with a metal detector. He wants to know who the culprit is. Delinda identifies the man as Anna-Maude’s Uncle Jack, who was found earlier that day with a bullet through his head.

The new insight I want to deliver is this: Jack is not just a trespasser. He is also a man well liked in the community, especially by Delinda.

The conflict I might use is to have Tony and Delinda argue over whether Jack is a good man or a bad man. Tony might say, “Somebody sure didn’t like him.” And Delinda might counter with, “Anna-Maude would be a better candidate for being shot through the head than Jack.” Tony might counter that with a question? “Why would anyone want to kill Anna-Maude.”

3. When Anna-Maude learns Tony’s true identity, she immediately suspects him of killing her Uncle Jack.

The new insight I want to deliver is this: Tony and Anna-Maude have been estranged for 17 years, but that doesn’t mean Tony’s anger toward Anna-Maude has stayed the same.

The conflict I might use is the kind that brings out one’s true nature. Tony might find Anna-Maude in front of his gun safe, trying the lever that opens it. She suspects that the rifle that killed Jack is inside. Tony might unlock the safe and throw open the door to show Anna-Maude there’s nothing inside.

Tony might say, “Do you really think I’d kill Jack for trespassing?”

Anna-Maude might counter, “You still blame me for your sister’s disappearance and your mother’s drowning.”

Tony might then counter, “I’m not a dumbass kid anymore.” He might go on to explain that his sister was a runaway train that no one could control. He might also explain that his mother was always suicidal and that Anna-Maude just happened to be there when his mother succeeded.

The insight for Anna-Maude would be that she is not to blame for the tragedies that happened 17 years before.

4. The new insight I want to deliver is that someone is surveilling Anna-Maude.

The conflict I might use to deliver this is an argument that uncovers a secret.

Anna-Maude might be in conversation with Chen Diu an Li Fang when a page Chen Diu is holding falls to the floor. Both Chen Diu and Anna-Maude kneel down to pick it up when they see a listening device attached to the bottom of the cataloguing table.

Li Fang suggests that someone is surveilling Anna-Maude. Anna-Maude counters with that person might be him. She might follow up with the revelation that she caught a Chinese man with a dragon tattoo burgling her house. The effect of this news resonates with Chen Diu. She knows a man with a dragon tattoo who might be the culprit.

5. The new insight I want to deliver is that Tony cannot escape fighting, using a gun to make a difference.

The conflict I might us to deliver this is an argument that brings out Tony’s true nature.

Owen takes Anna-Maude hostage. Sheriff Sergeant Mike Williams wants to negotiate with Owen to let go of Anna-Maude, but fails. Tony steps up and asks for Mike’s gun. Mike is afraid that brandishing a gun will get Anna-Maude killed. Tony counters with, “If you don’t give me your gun, I’m going to take it.”

Mike will give Tony his gun. Tony will take the shot that kills Owen and saves Anna-Maude’s life.