Rose and Windy started noticing changes in the little convenient store. Douglas the clerk (Rose and Windy call him "the Dud") who works in the convenient store has problems with his girlfriend Jenny. Douglas made Jenny pregnant. First, they were both together and having fun and now their fighting over a baby. Douglas cared but he didn't want to do anything about it, he would just ignore her. When Rose and Windy went to a little village, they saw Jenny working there.
The conflict in the book is man vs. society. All the characters in the book had one thing in common, a baby. Alice (Rose's mother), wanted to have a baby, but she couldn't. Her mother and father would always fight. Rose's mother lost her baby(fertilized egg) in the water on the beach. On page 299 it says, "Last year in the water... I was swimming and I felt the baby. Go." It means her child died in the water. Douglas and Jenny had a big argument too. Jenny never wanted a baby and now she is pregnant. Douglas ignored her, but still cared about her and his future.
Interesting thoughts, Lucy. But why do you think this is a man vs society conflict? What are the characters against in society?
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