Brother Man questions

1. Internal Conflicts are mental or emotional struggles that occur within a character.

    External Conflicts are struggles between a character and an outside force or problem.

2. Some of the conflicts brought out in "Brother Man", were:
   - the struggle between Cordelia and herself as she began to take on the stress and pressure of having to deal with the illness of her child. This would be described as mental conflict which would  therfore be seen as an Internal Conflict.

   - Papacita and Girlie had constant arguements and fights, some of which were very serious at times. This type of conflict would be seen as External Conflict, since it involved both characters fighting against each other.

   - Brother Man's altercation with the people of "The lane" can be portrayed as External Conflict since it involved both physical and verbal abuse from them to him. In other words, it involved struggles between two different class of characters.

3. The three (3) types of irony are:
    -Situational Irony- the opposite of what is expected to happen, happens.

    -Verbal Irony- A figure of speech in which what is said is not what is meant.

    -Dramatic Irony- when the words and actions of a characters of a work of literature have a
      different meaning for the reader than they do for the characters.

4. The novel "Brother Man" contains many ironic situations, some of which just happen to be;
    a)  During the scene with Cordelia and her sick son Tad. In this scene, Cordelia holds her son close to her bossom, and to the reader, one might think that she was some how trying to comfort him, but then irony comes into play when the reader learns that what Cordelia really did was stifle her son to death.

   b) In the scene when Papacita returns home and finds Girlie waiting patiently their for him. Papacita and Girlie constantly fought with each other, and to the reader, it sometimes seemed as if Papacita being the strong and warlike person he was, was going to one day kill Girlie, but then irony is shown when everything takes a sudden twist and Girlie ends up killing Papacita in his own home.

   c) During the scene when Brother Man was being battered and beaten just because of what was portrayed to be, his cultural belief. Brother Man was seen as the person who always lent a helping hand to the helpless  and a shoulder to the weak and confused, but what was really ironic and unexpecting was when everyone that use to trust and confide in him and who he use to help, turned agaunst him with the intent to kill him.