Conflict/Resolution on Pictures of Hollis Woods

Author's Note: For Language Arts, Mrs. Mundt asked us to write a conflict/resolution on a book we recently read. I did mine on the book, Pictures of Hollis Woods.

In the book, Pictures of Hollis Woods, there is one main conflict which is the fact Hollis Woods doesn't yet have a permanent home/family. She runs away from each of the foster homes she is sent to, including one that actually offers a real family that she likes. Of course, she is always sent to a different home after she ran away. Except the main conflict is that she keeps running away.

This book reminds me of a movie "Hotel for Dogs" that I saw a few years ago where two kids who are ten and fifteen- a boy and a girl- that have been through many foster homes. Eventually they come to the person that had found the other homes for them. This is similar to the book, Pictures of Hollis Woods, because in both instances, kids are spending time in foster homes that they really don't want to be in.

This conflict of running away is solved throughout the book, piece by piece. About every other chapter is the present, (with about every other one being the past,) and it all starts out where Hollis is taken to a new house with an older woman, Josie. Realizing they will take Hollis to a different house because Josie has been forgetting a lot of things lately, she makes a plan. She takes Josie to the Regans' summer house- without their permission. Eventually, Josie becomes homesick, and the end of the book leads the reader to believe Josie went back her own house to live with Beatrice, and Hollis goes to live with the Regans.