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What Is The Conflict In Camp By Maya Angelou
At the beginning of Camp when Lois was nine she seemed to have struggle a little bit trying to adapt to the environment of camp Manitou. She complained about all the things that bothered her at Camp Manito and mentions how she hated writing letters to her parents pretending that she was enjoying camp but in reality she isn’t. Later as Lois becomes thirteen, she ends up liking camp Manitou when she meets her best friend Lucy. The author characterizes Lucy as brownish with freckles and a bit taller than Lucy. “Lucy was so blond with translucent skin and large blue eyes like a doll’s, and Lois was nothing out of the ordinary just a tallish, thinnish, brownish person with freckles.” This showed an example of direct characterization describing not only Lucy but Lois as well. **Need more help with this paragraph** don’t know what to do here really-- First body paragraph …show more content…
While Lois is trying to understand the reality of life and the death of her friend, she is going through a rough time and can’t seem to understand how where her friend went or what happen to her. The Conflict of the story occurs when the girls have participated in an excursion in the wildness. The girls were set out by a canoe and later two of the girls separate from the other campers to climb. As the girls were set of by a canoe Lucy says that she is going off to use the restroom but never returns. Instead, Lois hears a scream but they can’t identify who it was that screamed. The girls head back to the camp without Lucy, and no one is able to find her not even the police. As the girls arrive back Cappie assumes that Lois pushed Lucy off the cliff. Eventuality as time goes on, Lois end up dealing with the loss of her friend from camp. She uses the art work that is hanging up in her house as a way of remembering her friend

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