DRAW Assignment on Literary Conflicts Read these 3 examples of conflicts and use the questions and constructed responses to identify which conflicts are being represented in the texts.

This assignment includes readings from a newspaper article, a poem, and part of a short story.

Missing Persons Case Solved! Woman Missing Since 1974 Found Living In Texas

Pendleton – A woman missing from her home in Laurel, Indiana since 1974, has been found living in a small town in south Texas under a new name and identity. Shortly after giving birth to her third child in 1974, Lula Ann Gillespie-Miller, then 28 years old, felt she was too young to be a mother at the time and signed her children over to her parents in Laurel. She then left home never to be seen again by her family.

Detective Sergeant Scott Jarvis took the case in January, 2014, after the Doe Network, a web site that assists families with missing person’s investigations, contacted the Indiana State Police at the Pendleton Post. The site advised they had been in contact with Lula Gillespie-Miller’s family. The family had told the site the last contact they had with Lula, was a letter they received from her, postmarked in Richmond, Indiana, from 1975.

The DNA sample taken from Tammy Miller was also entered into a national data base for missing persons, with no match found. While awaiting the DNA analysis on the exhumed unidentified body, the investigation led Jarvis in a different direction.

He began to investigate the trail of a woman with similarities to Lula Gillespie-Miller, who had lived in Tennessee in the 1980’s, then later in Texas. Further investigation led Jarvis to a woman living in a small town in south Texas since the 1990’s, possibly still living under a new name.

Today Jarvis contacted Texas Rangers in the area and had them go to the woman’s home. She admitted to the Rangers that her name is actually Lula Gillespie-Miller, now 69 years old, and originally from Laurel, Indiana. Lula Gillespie-Miller did not commit any crime by leaving her home in 1974, and still reserves the right to remain anonymous.

Although Gillespie-Miller could offer no explanation as to why she left her Indiana life behind in 1974, she did give consent to Sergeant Jarvis for her contact information to be given to her daughter, Tammy. Thanks to the hard work of Indiana State Police Detective Sergeant Scott Jarvis, this Easter weekend, Tammy Miller hopes to make contact with the mother she has never known.

Comprehension Questions and Constructed Response

Where was Lulu originally from? ________________

How old was Lulu when she left? _________________

How old is she now? __________________

What does the article mean when it says, “she still has the right to remain anonymous?”

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How is this article an example of the Person vs. Society conflict?

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In your opinion, why did Lulu choose to leave Indiana and start a new life? (use RACE)

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I Cry

Sometimes when I'm aloneI Cry,Cause I am on my own.The tears I cry are bitter and warm.They flow with life but take no formI Cry because my heart is torn.I find it difficult to carry on.

If I had an ear to confiding,I would cry among my treasured friend,but who do you know that stops that long,to help another carry on.

The world moves fast and it would rather pass by.Then to stop and see what makes one cry,so painful and sad.And sometimes…I Cry

Constructed Response Question (Use RACE)

How is this poem an example of the Person vs. Self conflict in literature?

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Excerpt from “To Build a Fire.”

Excerpt from "To Build a Fire

Day had broken cold and grey, exceedingly cold and grey, when the man turned aside from the

main Yukon trail and climbed the high earth- bank, where a dim and little-travelled trail led

eastward through the fat spruce timberland. It was a steep bank, and he paused for breath at

the top, excusing the act to himself by looking at his watch. It was nine o'clock. There was no

sun nor hint of sun, though there was not a cloud in the sky. It was a clear day, and yet there

seemed an intangible pall over the face of things, a subtle gloom that made the day dark, and

that was due to the absence of sun. This fact did not worry the man. He was used to the lack

of sun. It had been days since he had seen the sun, and he knew that a few more days must

pass before that cheerful orb, due south, would just peep above the sky- line and dip

immediately from view.

But all this--the mysterious, far-reaching hairline trail, the absence of sun from the sky, the

tremendous cold, and the strangeness and weirdness of it all--made no impression on the

man. It was not because he was long used to it. He was a new-comer in the land, a

CHECHAQUO, and this was his first winter. The trouble with him was that he was without

imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the

significances. Fifty degrees below zero meant eighty odd degrees of frost. Such fact impressed

him as being cold and uncomfortable, and that was all. It did not lead him to meditate upon

his frailty as a creature of temperature, and upon man's frailty in general, able only to live

within certain narrow limits of heat and cold; and from there on it did not lead him to the

conjectural field of immortality and man's place in the universe. Fifty degrees below zero

stood for a bite of frost that hurt and that must be guarded against by the use of mittens, ear-

flaps, warm moccasins, and thick socks. Fifty degrees below zero was to him just precisely fifty

degrees below zero. That there should be anything more to it than that was a thought that

never entered his head.

Comprehension Questions and Constructed Response

What is the setting of this story?

What do you think the word CHECHAQUO means in the story?

What conflict or conflicts are shown in this story?

What is your prediction about what will happen to this man later in the story? Why? (Use RACE for this paragraph)

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