The Drummer Boy of Shiloh, Ray Bradbury
How does the main character relate to the internal conflict?
The internal conflict is that Joby doesn't feel ready to fight, because he feels young, so he lays there and thinks about the battle and the soldiers, but he's afraid to fight, I think, because the general tells him about death in war Joby is afraid because he knows too much about what really happens. I think Joby would be better off not knowing as much as he does, and living in ignorance, because only then would he be able to go and fight, but knowing what will most likely happen, he won't fight, and this causes the conflict. Like when the general tells him that men actually die in war. This affects Joby because it makes him have an epiphany about life, and spontaneous death in war.
Joby isn't the conflict, but the conflict is in him because he created it by deciding he was afraid to fight. He could've told himself he wasn't afraid, went, and fought, but he didn't, he created the conflict and told himself he was afraid. Joby doesn't fix his own conflict, but has others fix it for him (in this case, the general) and in this the internal conflict is resolved.
The main character relates to the internal conflict like they are brothers, in which they're very similar, and they complete each other even if it might not change the other for the better. The internal conflict is part of Joby, the part of him that shows fear, it's his brain saying "no" and Joby's conflict is how to get around this.
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