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Internal Conflict In Forever Princess By Meg Cabot

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There is conflict within everyone whether one is famous or not. Many have conflicts with themselves when choosing something important for the future and overcoming these conflicts is not always easy. Forever Princess by Meg Cabot is about Mia, Princess of Genovia, who is having lots of internal conflict over choosing a college not based on grades or royalty that causes lots of stress. Mia’s internal conflict is deciding what college she wants to attend after graduation. For example, “It started with Dad trying to give me deadline: election day. I’ve got until ED to decide where I’m going to spend the next four years of my life” (Cabot 55). The problem is that Mia is a princess and got accepted into every college she applied to when she did not do very well on her SATs. Although she toiled to study to get into those colleges, she does not want to attended them just because she is a princess. Most of the schools she applied to requires good SATs scores and her scores are unalterable, so she is looking for a school that …show more content…

Her dad also tries to be an intermediary and tells her to go to the same college as her boyfriend, but Mia says, “It’s too far from Manhattan. What if something happens were to happen to Rocky or Fat Louie- a freak flash or building collapse” (Cabot 56). This shows that Mia could be very attached to home and does not want to leave it behind. Mia is also tractable and takes advice from one of her friends who says, “There are a lot of schools that don’t even count SAT scores anymore. Some great ones, actually, like Sarah Lawrence, which has a very strong writing program” (Cabot 200). Sarah Lawrence in the end is where Mia has decided to attend which caused an uproarious cry from her Grandmother and father as it was one of the colleges they suggested. Relieved from the decision making, Mia resolved her

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