Time And Again Conflict Essay

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Time and Again Conflict Essay In “Time and Again” by Jack Finney, the author develops conflict by making some characters confused, and others non-reliable and “shady”. Basically, Miss Macabee (A minor character) is frustrated with the fact that Simon hasn’t finished his work. She needs him to be finished but he has been stalling. He sees why Miss Mac is so annoyed. He doesn’t know where all the time went. In the text it says “Could I have possibly drifted off into a daydream twenty minutes long?” One minute he receives the paper and looks over the questions and its twenty minutes later. So he hurries and tries to complete his assignment. . The tone of Pages 27-28 is procrastination. Simon was given ample time to complete the paper he was given but he didn’t. Instead he drifted off into a daydream and was appalled at himself for not completing his task. This creates conflict. Although when Miss Mac called him, he was rather surprised that all that time had passed. But he still should have been responsible enough to complete his task. In conclusion, the conflict in those two pages is that Simon is having a hard time completing his work. He doesn’t realize the problems that he is causing for others. He doesn’t do it on purpose; it was just a onetime thing. Simon does realize that time is far gone, so he hops onto doing his work. Hopefully it won’t ever happen

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