Final Four Blackmailer

Author’s Note: In this two paragraph conflict and resolution piece, I focused on vocabulary and description of things that happened in the book.

Paint a picture in your mind, going to the one and only NCAA Men’s Final Four. Stevie and Susan, two teenage writers, arrive in New Orleans to cover and write about the Men’s basketball Final Four. This would be a dream for any teenager who has a passion for basketball. Arriving in New Orleans and writing about it would be great in all but the teenagers run into problems while they are there. The biggest conflict in the story was when Stevie and Susan found out that there was a man blackmailing the players.

In the Last Shot, there were many conflicts that would sometimes drive Susan and Stevie crazy but the biggest one stood out to me. The most impacting conflict in the book was when Stevie and Susan found out that there was a blackmailer telling the players to throw the game and purposely lose. I made a text to world connection when I found out that there was blackmailer. I connected this part of the book to cyber bullying everywhere because they are related in horrible ways. This conflict is an example of person vs. person because the teenagers were trying to figure out the blackmailer. There is also some person vs. self because Stevie has to keep the information confidential. This might have been hard for Stevie to not tell anyone except the people that already knew about it. Even though Stevie and Susan had to go through some tough conflicts like figuring out who the blackmailer was and not being able to tell anyone about the blackmailer, all the problems were resolved by Stevie and Susan finding the blackmailer.