The Friday Everything Change Analysis

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In the story “The Friday Everything Changed” by Anne Hart, the main conflict is that Alma, the main character, is trying to change society’s expectations of equality between genders, even though there is opposition. The conflict begins when Alma brings out the idea of this opposition: “Why can’t girls go for the water, too?” (pg. 16) This portrays the start of the conflict because it states that she triggers a change in expectations of not just boys carrying the water, but the girls too. Secondly, the conflict develops when “the boys [decide] not to let us girls field at softball anymore.” (pg.17) This illustrates the development because the boys opposes to the idea of change. The reasons for opposition is only because they only wanted to carry