Friday, December 11, 2009

Feeling Sorry for Celia - conflicts

In the book Feeling Sorry for Celia, there are a lot of really big conflicts. One of the bigger conflicts would have been when Celia ran away to join the circus in Coffs Harbour. When Elizabeth first heard Celia ran to the circus (she runs away a lot) she was relieved Celia was still alive and well, and Celia was glad she could be in a circus because maybe it was her dream. All is going well until Celia starts writing to Elizabeth that she has a really bad flu, and Elizabeth thinks it might even be glandular fever. Also, she was getting along really well with the circus manager, and they were playing chess every night. But one night Celia, being really sick, asked if they could play chess inside, and when they go in the manager’s caravan, he tries to make a move on her! Elizabeth is getting really anxious about Celia, so one day at her friend Saxton’s house they start talking about her, and Saxton suggests that they go rescue her, and can stay at his aunt’s house in Coffs Harbour. They end up going and making a really devious and secretive plan to save Celia, and it works! Later, even the Society of Amateur Detectives writes to Elizabeth, saying that they were really impressed with the plan.
Another bigger conflict was when Celia and Saxton tried to kill themselves. Celia was back from the circus for a while now, and the girls were drifting apart. Elizabeth kept trying to talk to Celia, but all she liked doing now was hanging out with Saxton, who was now her boyfriend. Celia and Saxton run away together, and a little while later Elizabeth gets a letter from her saying that Elizabeth hadn’t been a supportive friend of Celia’s going out with Saxton, and that she was being kind of cruel. But Celia didn’t want Elizabeth to blame herself, and that what she and Saxton were going to do had nothing to do with her. They said they couldn’t live in such a vicious world and that the next night they were just going to hold hands and jump off a cliff.
Elizabeth is not going to let her friend do that to herself, so she called her mom’s work and interrupted their meeting to tell her the news. Her mom called the cops and they all went up to the cliff the two said they would be at. As soon as everyone got there, Saxton just sat down and started sobbing, but Celia sprinted toward the edge and flew off the cliff. But she jumped too far and landed in water, so she didn’t kill herself, but she was still in the hospital with serious injuries. Elizabeth sat with her the whole first night in the hospital.

1 comment:

  1. Great job identifying conflicts in the novel. You do a great job with topic sentences and writing varying sentences!

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