People often find themselves engulfed in conflict whether they like it or not. Bystanders in conflict choose to sit on the edge and withstand or ignore the indirect missiles that set aim towards one’s values or opinions, whilst doing so they are only delaying the inevitable which is falling to the pressures of conflict. This is much like Blackwood from the novel ‘The Secret River’ where he finds himself ignoring smasher’s rude and foul actions and remarks, up until a point where he can no longer withstand it caving in to the pressures of conflict erupting into a violent clash with smasher, Which is why bystanders who choose to sit on the edge of conflict only make it difficult for them to remain a bystanders regardless of the
People often find themselves engulfed in conflict whether they like it or not. Bystanders in conflict choose to sit on the edge and withstand or ignore the indirect missiles that set aim towards one’s values or opinions, whilst doing so they are only delaying the inevitable which is falling to the pressures of conflict. This is much like Blackwood from the novel ‘The Secret River’ where he finds himself ignoring smasher’s rude and foul actions and remarks, up until a point where he can no longer withstand it caving in to the pressures of conflict erupting into a violent clash with smasher, Which is why bystanders who choose to sit on the edge of conflict only make it difficult for them to remain a bystanders regardless of the