Conflict is so important because that is what makes a story. It makes a reader want to read whatever it is. It shows how characters develop and grow.
I would say the setting Hawthorn choose for his book to take place, this Puritan village
The emotion the narrator in Living to Tell the Tale mainly feels toward the thief is D: empathy.
In <em>Living to Tell the Tale</em>, García Márquez makes an autobiographical recount of all the characters that has been significant in his life. He starts writing this book when he finds out he has cancer and he thinks it is important to tell the readers about all the people that has, in some way or another, changed his life.
When he remembers the events in his short story <em>La Siesta del Martes</em>, which describes a woman arriving in town with her daughter to put flowers on the grave of her son who had been shot while attempting to break into García Márquez's aunt's house, he says he feels like if he was the thief. He reflect's himself in the thief. His autobiographical self is beginning to live the life of the characters ins his fiction.
