The main conflict in this story is the fact that Erica's mother has breast cancer and told her three kids the situation but, in the book it does not explain why she got breast cancer. Erica's mother having breast cancer is a conflict and not just an important event in the story because nobody in her family wanted Mom to be in this situation but, since life has unwanted and unexpected events, Mom has breast cancer. According to the book (pg. 103),"They didn't have a care in the world as they sat under the sun—the cancerous sun...I looked at their chest. I couldn't help it, couldn't help comparing them to Mom, couldn't help wondering if someday they'd have to get mastectomies." This quote shows that Erica is affected by her mom having breast cancer and now that she knows her mom has cancer, she can't help but compare her mothers chest with the other girls. Another quote is," I plan to work in this year's Race for the Cure. It's for breast cancer, and the reason it matters so much is because my mom is sick." This shows that Erica is fundraising for the campaign called, "Race for the Cure" in response to her mom having breast cancer. This conflict is both internal and external because the cancer is within Mom's body and you can see that they removed her right breast because she has cancer. It's also a personal situation because it has to do with her life and the whole world does not need to know that she has cancer. This conflict is not resolved because it is a health issue that does not guarantee a cure. I know that it is not resolved because the story ends with people chanting as stated in the book on page 324, " ...lots of people, including some we'd never met, were chanting,"Race for Lisa! Race fro Lisa!" That is how the story ended and did not mention anything about Mom curing of cancer.
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In the book, "Ask My Mood Ring How I Feel", the gate icon, Changes Over Time, is used when Mom hasn't got her mastectomy done.Time goes by and the day of her mastectomy arrives, she is taken to the doctor and stays there for a couple of days. On page 83, it mentions that Mom arrives after a few days wearing a shirt that buttoned down the front and Erica glanced at her chest and noticed that her right side was flat like an Amazon. To sum it all up, Mom had both her breasts before the mastectomy and overtime her right side was flat because she had the mastectomy done to her. Another example for the gate icon, Changes Over Time , is that after Mom got her mastectomy done, she started going to physical therapy. With Mom having breast cancer, she had to be at the doctors most of the time. As said in page 108, ... Mom started going to physical therapy ,so she left me in charge of Carmen and Jimmy for a few hours every afternoon. This means that overtime, Erica had to start taking care of her siblings every afternoon.
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