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Lamp at Noon - External Conflict - Coggle Diagram
Lamp at Noon - External Conflict
Mother
Nurturer
Reaction to threat
Runs Away
Routine
Cleans
isolates the Baby
"She would have liked to rock him, to feel the comfort of his little body in her arms, but fear had obsessed her that in the dust-filled air he might contract pneumonia." pg 2
Argues
"Yesterday, and again at breakfast this morning, they had quarreled bitterly." pg 2
Wants to move
"You won't be able to feed a cow or a chicken. Please, Paul, say we'll go away." pg 4
Misses
husband
"At noon he would come - and perhaps after dinner stay with her a while." pg 2
"She wanted him now, the assurance of his strenght and nearness,.." pg 2
people
material things
"It was the face of a woman ... that had loved the little vanities of life, and lost them wistfully." pg 4
Freaks out
"Her eyes all the while were fixed and wide with curious immobility" pg 2
Baby
Dependent
isolated
cries
"He cries all the time." pg 4
dies
Father
Reaction to Threat
Hiding
Retreats
Dreams
"There was much he planned. And so vivid was the future of his planning, so real and constant, that often the actual present was half felt, but half endured." pg 8
Stable
"... he swung outside, and, doubled low against the buffets of the wind, fought his way slowly towards the stable. There was a deep howling calm within..." pg 7
Tool Shed
Isolates
Emotionally distant
"His voice as he answered was still remote, and even, inflexibility in unison with the narrow eyes and the great hunch of muscle knotted shoulder." pg 4
Balanced Approach
Face Facts
Weigh Options
Focus on the family welfare
Strategize ways to deal with things
Communicate
Take Action
Conflict
Wind and Dust
"The lower of dust clouds made the farmyard seem an isolated acre, poised aloft above a somber void" pg 1
"Wide like that they had looked out to the deepening ruin of the storm." pg 2
"There were two winds: the wind in flight and the wind that pursued." pg 3
"The one sought refuge in the eaves, whimpering, in fear; the other assailed it there, and shook the eaves apart to make it flee again." pg 3