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The Elements that Make a Conflict Positive: Humor, Choices, and Faith
When surrounded by so much anguish and despair, it takes a lot for a person to be optimistic and to do something about it. Gregory Boyle, a pastor working in Los Angles, which happens to be gang central, decides to turn an awful predicament into something that will help his community grow. Guy Burgess from Beyond Intractability says, “Conflict is the engine of social learning.” Father Boyle created something great: Homeboy Industries. Homeboy Industries is an organization to provide counseling, job training, job placements, tattoo removal, and love to the young adults that are affected by gangs and all that it comes with on the daily. In Tattoos on the Heart Father Boyle is faced with many conflicts that end up being positive. Humor, choices, and faith are elements that if present in a conflict can allow some one to grow from it. Humor is an essential element to make a conflict more positive. Not only does it lighten up the mood, but it can also help you articulate something that might otherwise insult someone. Scrappy is a young adult that is a drug dealer and into gangbanging. Scrappy and Father Boyle do not get along for many years. Scrappy is finally ready to put his past behind and to further better himself and Father Boyle is ready to help him. When Scrappy went into his office for help they had a conversation about the times Scrappy disrespected him. Scrappy denies that he ever disrespected him, and Father Boyle tells him about the time he mad dogged him in front over everyone while he
was giving a eulogy at his friend’s funeral and another time when Father Boyle was trying to break up a fight and Scrappy pulled out a gun on him. Father Boyle writes that scrappy says, “’Yeah, well… besides that,” [Scrappy] says. Then we do something we never have in our two decades of knowing each other. We laugh” (34). This shows that one can turn a negative conflict into something humorous and
When surrounded by so much anguish and despair, it takes a lot for a person to be optimistic and to do something about it. Gregory Boyle, a pastor working in Los Angles, which happens to be gang central, decides to turn an awful predicament into something that will help his community grow. Guy Burgess from Beyond Intractability says, “Conflict is the engine of social learning.” Father Boyle created something great: Homeboy Industries. Homeboy Industries is an organization to provide counseling, job training, job placements, tattoo removal, and love to the young adults that are affected by gangs and all that it comes with on the daily. In Tattoos on the Heart Father Boyle is faced with many conflicts that end up being positive. Humor, choices, and faith are elements that if present in a conflict can allow some one to grow from it. Humor is an essential element to make a conflict more positive. Not only does it lighten up the mood, but it can also help you articulate something that might otherwise insult someone. Scrappy is a young adult that is a drug dealer and into gangbanging. Scrappy and Father Boyle do not get along for many years. Scrappy is finally ready to put his past behind and to further better himself and Father Boyle is ready to help him. When Scrappy went into his office for help they had a conversation about the times Scrappy disrespected him. Scrappy denies that he ever disrespected him, and Father Boyle tells him about the time he mad dogged him in front over everyone while he
was giving a eulogy at his friend’s funeral and another time when Father Boyle was trying to break up a fight and Scrappy pulled out a gun on him. Father Boyle writes that scrappy says, “’Yeah, well… besides that,” [Scrappy] says. Then we do something we never have in our two decades of knowing each other. We laugh” (34). This shows that one can turn a negative conflict into something humorous and