The New Neighbors

2/24/2016

After you read The New Neighbors, click on the comment link and answer the following question:

What was the major conflict in this story?

Then click on another person's response to the question and comment on their blog.

Do you agree or disagree with their comment? Why?

Elmdale is a very close-knit and friendly community. When new neighbors move in, everyone takes time to introduce themselves. But the new people on Rosemont Street have everyone a bit concerned, because they don't answer their door. The house is always dark and the shades are drawn. A group of boys, unable to stand the curiosity, peeks into the basement windows and are shocked by what they see! The room is packed with guns, rifles, homemade bombs, and body armor! They run home to tell their parents, and word spreads quickly throughout the neighborhood.

The police say they cannot do anything because the boys had no right to trespass, and they won't take the words of a bunch of nosey neighbors. The frightened neighbors feel the only thing they can do is protect their own families, so they all buy guns. A few nights later they are awakened by what sounds like gun shots. They grab their guns and head outside. A nervous older man fires a shot in the air after a barking dog startles him. Several other guns go off in response. By the time the police arrive, two people are dead and four people are injured.

84 Comments

Anna Marie

3/15/2016 11:49:52 am

When the boys peeked into the neighbors shades in their basement.

Arianna Schrom ( The Boss )

3/15/2016 12:36:53 pm

I do not agree

Caleb Jatko

3/15/2016 11:50:15 am

The major conflict is when the boys see the weapons in the garage.

Waylon rose link

3/16/2016 11:21:59 am

I agree with Caleb.

Riley Mitchell and Gabi Espinoza

3/16/2016 11:24:49 am

We agree with you, Caleb.

Stormy Svensson

3/16/2016 11:38:00 am

I agree with Caleb

adam holt

3/16/2016 12:04:21 pm

i agree because that is the conflict

Makayla Swindall

3/16/2016 12:20:03 pm

I agree with you because that is what happens.

Logan Matheney link

3/16/2016 12:22:54 pm

I disagree. That is the climax.

Jordan Henderson

3/15/2016 11:52:02 am

I think the conflict is when the boys find weapons in the garage.

cory

3/15/2016 12:35:50 pm

i agree

JORDAN ALVAREZ

3/15/2016 12:45:46 pm

I disagree the conflict is they all bought guns and someone shot and killed 2 people and injured 4.

3/15/2016 12:35:14 pm

The conflict is people are trying to protect themselves but they get so nervous that they buy there own weaponry and end up freaking out.

bradley reyer

3/15/2016 12:40:26 pm

awesome

Quin W.

3/16/2016 11:12:59 am

I agree that the conflict is when the boys found the weapons.

Aurora

3/16/2016 12:13:29 pm

I disagree with this comment because the conflict is not all about people going crazy and stuff like that.

3/15/2016 12:35:15 pm

the conflict is when the boys find weapons in the garage

adam Holt

3/15/2016 12:39:17 pm

i agree with you

kame

3/15/2016 12:41:15 pm

i agree because its a problem.

Zack sparks

3/16/2016 11:15:36 am

i agree because they find the weapons being nosy and tell the police

Abby

3/15/2016 12:37:32 pm

I think the conflict of this story is when the boys find all those weapons and the neighbors spread the rumor and that night four people die and more are injured because they were being to precautions and assuming things that could not be true

alana isbell link

3/16/2016 12:15:10 pm

i agree w/ Abby

3/15/2016 12:38:37 pm

when the police won't help them.

Danny Holt

3/15/2016 12:39:18 pm

The conflict of the story is the police don't do nothing about the guns.

3/15/2016 12:40:03 pm

the conflict is when the boys find all off the stuff in one house

3/15/2016 12:41:45 pm

the conflict is that the boys find guns in their new neighbors basement.

Dylan

3/15/2016 12:42:38 pm

i think the conflict is when they find weapons in the garage.

Kara

3/15/2016 01:07:47 pm

I agree with this as the major conflict of this story.

3/15/2016 01:09:42 pm

The major conflict of the story is when the boys find weapons in the new neighbor's basement.

Nikki

3/16/2016 09:23:35 am

I agree with Kara because that is the major conflict

Jake

3/16/2016 12:25:21 pm

I agree with you because everything was curios until they found the guns and bombs.

Nikki Mr.McNutt

3/16/2016 09:22:07 am

I think the conflict is when the boys seek in the basement of their neigbor's

3/16/2016 11:13:41 am

the conflict is they find weapons in the garage and they tell the police but they will not help them because they were tresspassing.

Connor Wendt

3/16/2016 11:26:55 am

I agree kind of I think a little bit more of the story in your answer like how many people were injured and how many were killed would have been better. Zack Sparks

Hattie and Kirsten link

3/16/2016 11:18:27 am

We think that the major conflict starts when the the friendly neighbors see that their new neighbors have a whole bunch of weapons in their basement so the friendly neighbors start to get scared.

Brandon Hayes

3/16/2016 11:22:22 am

I agree except for the word start which should have been started.

Owen Moore link

3/16/2016 11:26:44 am

hi I agree with you

3/16/2016 11:58:55 am

I agree to you guys comment because when the neighbors get scared of the new neighbors and the neighbors start assuming things

AGF link

3/16/2016 11:19:38 am

The conflict of this story is that when the boys went into the new neighbors's house.

Waylon Rose link

3/16/2016 11:20:20 am

I think the major conflict of the story is when the boys peek into the neighbor's garage.

jacquette group(6)

3/16/2016 11:20:46 am

i agree with annamarie

3/16/2016 11:21:01 am

The conflict is when the neighbors go outside and start shooting at people

MARIE

3/16/2016 11:23:08 am

The conflict of this story is when the boys found the weapons.

3/16/2016 11:38:42 am

I don't agree with you because you didn't add enough detail and I think that might be just a detail.

Mia Taylor (Wendt)

3/16/2016 11:23:41 am

I think the conflict is that neighbors are nervous of their new neighbors and two boys go and look into a window of the house and see guns and weapons. They go and tell the police, they do nothing. And all the neighbors buy guns and weapons.

3/16/2016 11:46:00 am

I agree with you Owen and SEC.

3/16/2016 11:23:46 am

I thin the conflict is that the boys trespass and see weapons and scares community.

3/16/2016 11:28:05 am

We agree with you,Owen.

alan nguyen link

3/16/2016 11:28:55 am

i agree fam

3/16/2016 11:24:42 am

I think the conflict is that two boys go look in the new neighbors basement window and see guns they tell their parents they report it to the police and they don't believe it. After that some old man hears gun shots a dog startles him and he shoots at the end of this 2 people are dead and 4 are injured. I don't think that the two boys should have trespassed though.

Justise Dent

3/16/2016 11:25:56 am

The conflict is when the boys see the weapons in the garage and go tell their parents. Everyone else in the neighborhood gets scared and they all go buy guns.

Gabi Espinoza

3/16/2016 11:28:26 am

I agree with you, Justise

Gretchen Harrell

3/16/2016 11:36:24 am

I agree.

Brooklyn Channell link

3/16/2016 12:23:16 pm

I agree with Justice because that is the major conflict.

Myah Mincey link

3/16/2016 12:38:22 pm

I agree because it right into the point.

alan

3/16/2016 11:27:52 am

why did the kids peeked in their basement

3/16/2016 11:27:59 am

the conflict was that the neighbors got guns so their fam got guns too

Winman [Wendt]

3/16/2016 11:28:49 am

The major conflict is when the boy see the weapon in the garage

3/16/2016 11:30:47 am

We think the conflict is that the neighbors trespass.

SEC

3/16/2016 11:32:33 am

The conflict of the story is when a group of boys search an dark house when they look in the they see weapons they try and spread the word and tell the police but the police is not taking their word so the boys decide to buy guns to protect their families and friend and in the middle of the night they hear a gun shot go off but it was a older man shooting at the barking dog the man killed two people and four people where injured.

3/16/2016 11:34:27 am

I think the major conflict of this story is that the kids snooped when they had no right and they assumed the new neighbors were dangerous which in turn got two people killed and four injured.

3/16/2016 12:12:52 pm

i agree w/ Gretchen bc the kids had no right to snoop into their neighbors garage so it was their fault people got killed plus they were spreading rumors in the 13 amendments it says ''we have the right to bear arms'' so who knows what the neighbors were gonna do with the guns they may have wanted to protect their family and the old man shot to scare a dog so the others should not have shot their guns and observed carefully or called the police

J.K.F ~Jaylon Fields~

3/16/2016 11:34:49 am

The conflict is when the group of boys find weapons in the garage.

3/16/2016 11:36:38 am

The main conflict of this story is that the kids find guns in the neighbors garage,and that night two people got killed and four injured.By the neighbor shot a gun in the air by being startled and people came out in response so that those people were accidentally killed and injured by people shooting.

group6

3/16/2016 11:43:57 am

the main conflict is when the police did nothing over people having illegal weapons

Cortez

3/16/2016 12:02:48 pm

The conflict was when the new neighbors moved in with the guns.

3/16/2016 12:03:45 pm

I agree wit Jaylon Fields

Darly S. link

3/16/2016 12:04:59 pm

The conflict is when the boys find all the weapons.

Dylan Finley link

3/16/2016 12:13:30 pm

Theres tension there i agree

Ashford

3/16/2016 12:08:31 pm

the conflict is when the friends go trespassing in the neighbors yard and see a bunch of weapons. Then later people are injured and dead.

Aurora Maniscalco link

3/16/2016 12:08:48 pm

The major conflict of the story is a group of boys tell the neighbors that their is this house that has guns,bombs and stuff like that.The boys told the police,and the police said they had no right to trespass so they could not do anything.The neighbors all bought guns,and once they heard a gun shot outside at night and when the police arrived two people are dead.

summer arnold link

3/16/2016 12:20:50 pm

i agree because i also believe that this was a major conflict. Great job girl!!

Khushi Modi link

3/16/2016 12:22:11 pm

I agree with you because that was what had happened, but also in the end when the police arrived there was also four people injured.

3/16/2016 12:13:02 pm

The conflict is that they find weapons in the garage.

Alexa Mena link

3/16/2016 12:18:04 pm

The conflict of this story is about how the nervous elderly man shots just because a dog barking scared him then more people come and shoot and people get injured

Anna Staggs link

3/16/2016 12:18:16 pm

Wow, thats scary the boys shouldn't have trespassed but curiosity killed the cat. in this cased it killed 2 men. The conflict is when everyone gets scared and fires their guns.

3/16/2016 12:18:46 pm

I think the conflict is that the boys find the weapons and report it but they did nothing about it.

3/16/2016 12:19:12 pm

I have no idea what was going on in the story and then all of a sudden people are dead.

3/16/2016 12:19:35 pm

The conflict in this story is one night a neighborhood heard a gun shot and ran out of their houses to see what it was with their guns, this ended with two people dead and four people injured.

3/16/2016 12:20:57 pm

The conflict is when the boys trespass and look through the basement windows.

3/16/2016 12:22:04 pm

The major conflict of this passage is when the boys see the weapons in the garage.

3/16/2016 12:25:06 pm

I think the main conflict is the new neighbors had lots 'o guns, so everyone else bought guns to protect themselves from those neighbors.

3/16/2016 12:33:53 pm

I think the major conflict of the story is when a group boys look into the new neighbors basements windows and see guns and other weapons.

Devin Davey link

3/16/2016 12:37:07 pm

The main conflict of this story is that because a group of boys spread rumors about the new neighbors and everyone is scared of them now.

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