Conflict expository piece
‘Encountering conflict changes who we are as a person.’
Comedian Bill Cosby once said “family is conflict and it's something that we all relate to.” His words speak of nothing but the truth because we have all experienced familial conflict before; it may have been a disagreement over moving schools with your parents or even a fight with a sibling, anyways the point is we all come across conflict throughout our life and it doesn’t just involve family. However the conflict doesn’t just come and go, it changes us whether during experiencing it or after the encounter. When caught up in a rough situation conflict can make people turn selfish for their own self-preservation, which causes them to neglect others including close ones. It also can be a significant change, transforming a person into a leader that would stand for what they believe is right or altering an individual’s aspect of life. Therefore, conflict
When conflict arises and drawn into a harsh environment it may cause a person to become more selfish in order to conserve their own wellbeing. In Elie Wiesel’s text ‘Night’ which describes his experience as a Jew struggling in a concentration camp during World War 2, he states “if only I didn’t find him! If only I were relieved of this responsibility, I could use all my strength for my own survival, to take care only of myself”, referring to his father Elie wanted to abandon him in order to improve his chance of survival. Furthermore, it wasn’t just Elie that wanted to save their own life it was all the Jews who was fighting to stay alive, for instance, in the wagon that stopped at a German town, a son had killed his own father for a small crust of bread without a single care of what he had done. Conflict that leaves a person in a desperate situation such as this one would almost always cause that person to naturally become greedy, where they would put their own lives before others, afraid that if they don’t they would pay the price instead which could be
Comedian Bill Cosby once said “family is conflict and it's something that we all relate to.” His words speak of nothing but the truth because we have all experienced familial conflict before; it may have been a disagreement over moving schools with your parents or even a fight with a sibling, anyways the point is we all come across conflict throughout our life and it doesn’t just involve family. However the conflict doesn’t just come and go, it changes us whether during experiencing it or after the encounter. When caught up in a rough situation conflict can make people turn selfish for their own self-preservation, which causes them to neglect others including close ones. It also can be a significant change, transforming a person into a leader that would stand for what they believe is right or altering an individual’s aspect of life. Therefore, conflict
When conflict arises and drawn into a harsh environment it may cause a person to become more selfish in order to conserve their own wellbeing. In Elie Wiesel’s text ‘Night’ which describes his experience as a Jew struggling in a concentration camp during World War 2, he states “if only I didn’t find him! If only I were relieved of this responsibility, I could use all my strength for my own survival, to take care only of myself”, referring to his father Elie wanted to abandon him in order to improve his chance of survival. Furthermore, it wasn’t just Elie that wanted to save their own life it was all the Jews who was fighting to stay alive, for instance, in the wagon that stopped at a German town, a son had killed his own father for a small crust of bread without a single care of what he had done. Conflict that leaves a person in a desperate situation such as this one would almost always cause that person to naturally become greedy, where they would put their own lives before others, afraid that if they don’t they would pay the price instead which could be