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Character Conflict

A wall of fire rising, this title can been derived from the play the young guy is taking part

in their school. its brief tale that majorly revolves are the three person family that is the guy ,lili

and their seven year old son.it talks about a man who has high hopes that one time they will ride

out of their current situation of extreme need and low living standards in Haiti. The guy manages

to secure a job in a sugar mill, the little guy is in school and lili the wife does not work and stays

at home.

There are three main themes from this short story, which are; poverty, the guy wants his son to a

memory of him not just as a popper, they reside in a small poor town known as the shantytown.

Then parenthood, this is seen where the guy allows the little guy to have his way, he seeks a job

in the sugar mill so he can provide for his family (Zhang, Xiaolei, et al, 234). Lastly the pain of

being locked out. The guy is excluded from lili’s attention by the little guy and then poverty has

kept him a bay from his dreams.

The guy’s struggle with the little guy for lili’s attention is first noted where the guy

comes back excited with good news and wants to tell lili but hardly had he start when the little

guy gives his news boastfully that he is now in the school play and as such lili had to pamper him

with some sweet words of encouragement. When the guy sits on the grass and wants to talk to lili

again the little guy comes in and wants to play a game with his dad, the hide and seek game .as
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such again the guy can’t talk to lili. The guy is forced to postpone his news until bed time hours

so he can share with lili. The following evening when the guy is from work and probably wants

to rest little guy comes in with the lines he had memorized from the play and want the guy to

listen to it.

The conflict between poverty and guy’s family is very clear where the guy admits that his

father was unable to provide for his family. He says that growing up he never wished to ever

emulate his dad who was a very poor struggling man all his life [75]. The family eats a skimpy

evening meal before they all proceed to have some enjoyment in the sugar mill where the

government had installed a television for the shantytown dwellers. Due to this struggle with

poverty they hardly could afford their own television. The guy plans to commit suicide using the

hot air balloon as he tells lili that she’ll take good care of the little guy.

There is a struggle between lili and the guy, where the guy want to put the little guy’s

name on the list for permanent employment when he grows up (Yao, Yongzheng, et al, 32). Lili

strongly refutes that idea and even goes on to make it clear that she doesn’t want to limit the little

guy.lili is really worried about the guy’s captivation with the hot air balloon but she tries to hide

it does not want to ask him.

In the end, the guy is unable to change his current situation of poverty, he tries to secure

employment but does not get a permanent job. He is unable to provide for his family so resorts to

committing suicide .he jumps from the hot air balloon in the sky onto the ground when he is

checked for pulse he is dead.

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Work Cited

Yao, Yongzheng, et al. "Maximum smoke temperature beneath the ceiling in an enclosed channel with

different fire locations." Applied Thermal Engineering 111 (2017): 30-38.

Zhang, Xiaolei, et al. "Experimental study and analysis on flame lengths induced by wall-attached fire

impinging upon an inclined ceiling." Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 37.3 (2019): 3879-3887.