John External Conflict

To begin with, behavior and personality during freshman year reflected immaturing. When John was a freshman, he was really immature and he would do things like set off stink bombs on the bathroom. When he got older he did less immature things. This paragraph suggests, “But I gave up all that kid stuff now that I'm a sophomore. The only thing I do now that is faintly criminal is write on desks.” The suggests that John has stopped being immature and being more mature and acting like he was supposed to act.
You always have to deal with problems in life. Every month, week, and days you have some sort of problem you have to deal. Some easy like finishing a problem on a sheet of paper, but some aren’t. Lorraine has both external and internal problems she deals with in the novel. An external conflict is the constant problem that she has with her mother. The does not have an easy life with her mother and you
can see that there is a tension in their relationship. Even when Lorraine gets her mother stockings she lectures her and she says,”When I give you money for the bus, you ride the bus, It doesn't look right for a girl to be walking along the streets.” An internal relationship that she has to deal with is Mr.Pignati’s Death. You can tell that Mr.Pignati dieing rips and tears at her emotions. You can tell that she felt bad.
In the story John and his father do not have the best of relationships.
During in the book When John is not allowed to use the phone anymore his father puts a lock on the phone so the person with the key could open the lock. When John was not allowed to use the phone he glues the lock so that no one could use the phone. The cause and effect relationship is because his father locked the phone John superglued the phone so that no one could use the phone. This evidence says, “Another difficulty there is that my father, whom I warmly refer to as Bore, put a lock on our phone-one of those rould locks you put in the first dial hole so you can’t dial. He put it on because of a little exchange we had when he called from work,” and, “Bore and I have been having a lot of trouble communicating lately as it is, and sometimes I go a little crazy when I feel I’m being picked on or not being trusted. That’ why I finally Put airplane glue in the keyhole of the lock so nobody could use the telephone, key or no key.” This proves the cause and effect relationship about the family’s
phone.