Starting Conflicts

Every time that there's a conflict between two people, it can either expand, or be resolved in a series of regretful and apologetic events. This is not the case of Edan and Léonce. Very few times will a starting conflict cool off in a novel and turn out to only be a little bump on the road. A novel must have a predictable side where a conflict will have to develop. Otherwise, the plot will only develop under a certain number of ideas that will soon be repeated. A conflict creates a stream of though where the writer can argue and the reader can think upon and therefore make the book much more productive and attractive to read. And in a starting conflict like this, there can't be a change in heart now that the reader has foreshadowed the future increasing conflict. This is of the few things in the novel that if changed, will make it far less intuitive to read and loose the magic of sitting back down and reading once more.

With little room for alternative to such a predictable move, authors will try to tweak whatever will come afterwards in the novel. They will bring something original and completely unexpected in order to stimulate that new generation of thought that makes the novel worth reading. But even if things do happen as the reader predicted, it continues to be a book worth reading. But the best authors are able to present an original idea or set of ideas, and be able to present them so that the reader can understand them and use them. So far into The Awakening, it has been relatively predictable but there is still some hope for a turnaround.