Becoming My Own

Authors Note: This is my conflict resolution piece called Becoming My Own proving my understanding of conflict resolution

In the story Fact of Life #31, there are several conflicts, like when Katima argues constantly with her mother. But the main conflict is when Katima grows jealous of her mom’s relationship with her enemy. The conflict is person vs. person, but Katima can’t solve her problem until she discovers at end who she really is and wants in her life.

In the book you can clearly see that Katima has a lot tension with her mother she wants to be able to tell her mother her issues with their relationship but she nervous about how her mother will react. She wants to tell her mother that she wants more attention and be treated more fairly. But she’s afraid to be brushed off as if her problems didn’t affect her. Or being yelled at for distracting her during work because she always working.

But the conflict is resolved when her mother finally came to Katima and asked what was wrong with their relationship. Once they were on better terms Libby, her enemy got pregnant and since her mother worked as a midwife her mother gave Libby her services for free and the created a whole new problem. And Katima decided to start spending more time with friends and avoiding her family. So once she began resenting her mother she realized that there relationship is stronger when they’re constantly together, and they decided that they were going to give each other space. And that’s how they solved that conflict and the whole family agreed that them being not as close helped her whole family.

The conflict was a lot like My Brother Sam is Dead because before Sam went to war Tim and Sam used argue a lot but once Sam got back he saw that time became independent from his family and became a mature man. So even though Tim is younger than Sam he wanted to be just as much as a man than him. In Fact of Life #31 the main conflict is Katima becoming independent from her family and as the book moves on she gained her independence from her family by separating herself from her mother