David Sedaris, a young boy
comes across a big and rather gross problem at a family get-together. It was
his family and another family having dinner together. They were eating dinner
when David felt the urge to go to the bathroom. He excused himself from the
table and headed towards the bathroom. As he got ready to go to the bathroom,
he discovered that someone had left him a surprise in the toilet. He tried so
hard to think of ways he could get rid of it, because he couldn’t leave it
there and have someone else think it was his. Heaven forbid that would happen,
so he thought and he thought. Throw it out the window, no. Pick it up, no.
Then, someone from the dinner table had gotten up to check on him. They knocked
on the door, David panicked, and right then and there was when he found the
plunger. He shoved it right in the toilet and started plunging away! Then, here
was the real test; would it flush? He pushed the lever down and the water
started to spin. Not up this time, the water was going down. The big surprise
had broke free and down the toilet it went.
In this story, “Big Boy,”
shows an example of a person vs. person conflict. In other words, it was David
vs. the gruesome surprise in the toilet.
Also, it was person vs. self, because he could of have left it there and
none of this franticness would have occurred. Lastly, there is another person
vs. person, and that would be him vs. the person knocking on the door. To be
honest, I didn’t really learn any life lessons from this story. I guess I just
learned to look for a plunger if this situation ever happens to me. I get that
he didn’t want anyone to think it was his, but I think he overreacted just a
bit.
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