Conflict is a major element of a plot because opposing forces arouse curiosity, cause doubt, create tension, and produce interest. In the story "Blue winds dancing- by Tom Whitecloud there is a dilemma or a natural conflict amongst himself. This story follows the structure of a fiction short story. It has its exposition or the laying out of the story line, the complication or the development of a major conflict and crisis where the conflict meets its greatest tension. Also it reaches a climax where the story is at a high point and then the resolution or denouement.
The exposition in this story is in the beginning where he is talking about the moon. (121)-There is a moon out tonight. Moon and stars and clouds tipped with moonlight. And there is a fall wind blowing in my heart. Ever since this evening, when against a fading sky I saw geese wedge southward. They were going home .Now I try to study, but against the pages I see them again, driving southward. Going home."" He is realizing here that he misses home and wants to be there. .
Oddly in this story the real reason for the conflict doesn't show up till late. Although we figure out what the conflict is. He would like to be home but he is stuck in the white mans world. He is making his trek home for Christmas and he starts to worry about what his family will say, whether he will be looked at as a stranger by his own people. (123)-Suddenly I am afraid, now that I am but twenty miles from home. Afraid of what my father will say, afraid of being looked on as a stranger by my own people."" He starts thinking where do the young Indians in this world belong. He is confused because he says(123)-We just don't seem to fit anywhere-certainly not among the whites, and not among the older people."".
As a white person in this world I do not really know what it is like to feel exactly like this. Obviously we all have feelings of wondering where we belong but this is his culture.
