Question

In 3–5 complete sentences, thoroughly explain how the protagonist in your Module One short story handles the conflict he or she faces? What actions or choices does the protagonist make because of the conflict? What is the outcome of the conflict? Provide at least two specific details from the text to support your analysis of how the protagonist deals with the conflict.
The story is Condense Milk by Varlam Shalamov

Answer 1

The conflict in the short story Condensed milk is survival in a Gulag, hungr and desperation.

Explanation:

The story follows Shestakov, a camp geologist who asks a miner to help him escape the Gulag. The miner knows the task is impossible but ebcause he is hungry he agrees to do it in exchange for 2 cans of condensed milk.

Many prisoners attempt escape with Shestakov but are captured and some of them are killed.

In this story, the miner walks into sure death just to have condensed milk once. The desperation and perennial hunger of the gulags pushed him to trade his life for some food that  is usually staple in normal people's lives.

This  hunger and desperation is the main conflict of the story.