What is the setting and a conflict faced by the main character in Bridge to Terabithia?

The book is about two children named Jesse Oliver Aarons and Leslie Burke. They use their imagination to create a kingdom just for them where there are no bad fears to harm them. They are the king and queen of their kingdom and they call it Terabithia. They grow to be close friends and have many adventures then build a castle called the stronghold.

Bridge to Terabithia is an imaginative and descriptive book. The book is about a boy named Jesse Oliver Aarons who's biggest dreams are to be an artist. It takes place in Washington. He also has dreams of being the fastest runner in the fifth grade. Every morning during the summer he wakes up at the crack of dawn to practice running. When he is running one morning he is surprized by a girl who just moved in down the street. They grow to be close friends. They make up an imaginary kingdom called Terabithia. They are the king and queen of Terabithia there imaginary kingdom. They are the only ones that know about it.

At Terabithia they build a castle. The only way to get to Terabithia is to swing on a rope across a usually dry creek. The end I will now leave up to you to read.

This book was great. I think the theme was to use your imagination, and let your feelings out and remeber that when things go wrong you still have to move on in life.

What is the conflict and resolution in Bridge to Terabithia?

Jess Aarons, the protagonist of the story, met Leslie Burke. Her fire and her imagination challenged Jess to look beyond the small existence that had been defined for him by his family and their impoverished situation. Through conversations with Leslie, and later with her parents, Jess learned to look outward and far into other worlds both real and imaginary. The conflict in “Bridge to Terabithia” was found within Jess as he struggled to embrace the many new ideas that Leslie shared with him, and thereby find the courage to be himself and to value himself, in his own life, rather than to have his reality determined by those around him, such as his parents, sisters, and schoolmates.

The unexpected death of Leslie provided Jess with the ultimate test of his courage. She had helped him to find his inner strength, but he had to make the choice to use it. In the end, Jess had to decide whether to go back to his life the way it was, or to honor Leslie’s memory by keeping alive the story of Terabithia.

What is the conflict and resolution in Bridge to Terabithia?

Jesse is in conflict with the expectations placed upon him by his family. He has a strained relationship with his family, one that is nonexistent until almost the end of the novel. Jesse is not comfortable in his own shoes, as he always hides his love of art. Jesse also faces an internal conflict about the fear that he seems to have about everything. Leslie is in conflict with those at Lark Creek Elementary. Because she is from the city and does not care much what people think of her, her classmates find her different.

Leslie is introduced, and she and Jesse become friends after first racing in the schoolyard. Leslie and Jesse create Terabithia, an imaginary land where they escape their everyday lives, defeat their enemies, and cope with their fears. Jesse and Leslie exchange gifts at Christmas: Jesse giving Leslie a dog, and Leslie giving Jesse expensive art supplies. Jesse and Leslie face a bully who steals from May Belle. Miss Edmunds takes Jesse to Washington to an art museum, and Jesse does not invite Leslie to go.

Jesse returns from his trip to Washington with Miss Edmunds to find that Leslie has drowned. Leslie’s family decides to move away from Lark Creek, leaving Jesse with Leslie’s paints and art supplies. Jesse begins to cope with his struggle with Leslie’s death, and he tries to overcome his fears. Jesse begins to rebuild the bridge to Terabithia. May Belle becomes the new Queen of Terabithia.

What is the conflict and resolution in Bridge to Terabithia?

The conflict in this story is man vs. self.  Jess struggles with himself because he feels out of place in home dominated by woman.  He feels out of place because his passion - art - is not understood by his father or his peers.  Jess feels at odds with the world around him and doesn't know how to be true to himself but also fit in.

Meeting and becoming friends with Leslie allows Jess to find a place with himself.  In their friendship, and in the world that they create, Jess is able to express himself and to feel accepted.  This allows him to understand that he doesn't have to "fit in" to achieve happiness.  Instead, he needs to accept that being different is ok, and being true to himself is what will allow him to be happy.  Sadly, it is Leslie's death that allows Jess this finally realization that who he is as a person is acceptable - he is able to express grief to his father and is comforted by him.

What is the conflict and resolution in Bridge to Terabithia?

What is the major conflict in Bridge to Terabithia and its type?

In Katherine Paterson's novel, Bridge to Terabithia, I think there are several conflicts, some of which do not become as important until the later part of the story.

However, the conflict that seems to generate and move the plot along, in my opinion, is man vs. society.

Jess has dreams of impressing his school mates (which is destroyed when Leslie joins the school and beats everyone else).

One time last year Jesse had won. Not just the first heat but the whole shebang. Only once. but it had put into his mouth a taste fr winning...For the rest of that day, and until after lunch on the next, he had been "the fastest kind in the third, fourth and fifth grades," and he only a fourth grader.

This sense Jess has to beat all the other boys defines his sense of success for himself, but it is his desire to take on all of his peers that drives him.

Leslie struggles with "society" as well. Her parents, in order to live a more meaningful life, sold their home in Arlington and moved out to the farm: they actually meant to farm it, and as Jess sees it, Leslie has to pay the price by being forced to leave friends and school to enter a world of strangers.

Jess and Leslie form a strong bond, creating an imaginary world where they are in charge. This may be in response primarily because of the needs of family that are not met, a feeling that they don't have control of their lives at home.

Because both youngsters are in need of attention—support and understanding from their parents—I have categorized this as man vs society. If Leslie did not get along with her mother, or Jess, his mother, I would characterize these examples as man vs. man. However, because the children's needs extend from a sense of dissatisfaction at home, for different reasons—for the most part—it is as if they are at odds with society in general.

When tragedy strikes in their midst, this conflict will continue until it is resolved by all those involved.