Fuel keeps the engine working and without it, a car is just a motionless object. Who wants a car that does not move? It is one of the most important parts of a vehicle so it can move from point A to B. In a story, conflict acts as the fuel that enables the story to move forward (“Literary Elements: Basics” 2) and can also stir up different emotions from the readers such as excitement and heightens anticipations. There are different forms of conflict that a character can experience, but whatever the conflict is, it also helps the reader to get to know the character and understand and see their developments. Different characters can experience different or similar conflicts, Wilbur from Charlotte’s web and Fumiko Ishioka of Hana’s suitcase both …show more content…
Unlike Wilbur, Fumiko Ishioka of the Hana’s suitcase showcased different form of strength and perseverance despite of the different problems that life threw at her. Fumiko is the director of a small museum called Tokyo Holocaust Center in which they teach Japanese children about holocaust with the purpose of stopping that event from happening again and opening the eyes of the Japanese children about the effects of racism. She believed that it will be easier for her to teach these children about the event if she can show them some of the items from the event so, she tried to contact some of the museum and asked for a loan artifacts (Levine 11). Months later, she received a package from the Auschwitz museum which contains, shoes, child’s socks, child sweater, a can of Zyklon B poisonous can and one suitcase which has Hana Brady’s name and birthday (Levine 12). This was where her quest begun to gather information and to find out who Hana Brady is. It was not an easy task to find Hana. Holocaust happened decades ago that Fumiko thought that Hana might have a different name or lives in a different place, but these obstacles did not stop her from finding who this girl is. She sent countless letters and emails to museums, and eventually the closes information that she got were the pictures that Hana drew when she was in a concentration camp at Auschwitz where she also found out that Hana came from Terezin. She then decided that in order to solve the mystery of the owner of the suitcase, Fumiko had to go to Terezin herself (Levine 56). When she arrived there, it was not an easy task because there were a lot of hurdles that she must surpass but her desire did not falter; it even gave her more reason to find where and how Hana is now decades after holocaust. Her