, comes in daily conflict with the other children in his society, they tease him (Matute CH.4). This of course is an ordinary conflict because most children get teased at one time or another during their life. The only difference is that this boy blows his conflict way out of proportion, this deformed boy takes this teasing as a major part of his life and may start to block out other more positive things to his life. This will ultimately damage his self-esteem and this is when the ordinary teasing becomes a major life problem. After any conflict whether it started as a minor one and them became or has always been a major life problem, there are several ways that they can be solved.The ways of solving major life problem differs greatly. Violence is one of these ways; violence could either be towards oneself or towards other people. For example killing is a way to solve a major life problem using violence, if one feels that someone has done something horrible to him or someone that he knows then he could opt to kill who ever did that horrible action. Another solution is the taking of ones life, when a major problem becomes too much to handle this may seem like the best solution (Baldwin 42).There are also non-violent ways to resolve a problem. One of these is by either not doing anything about the problem or something very impersonal like a court battle. This non-violent approach to the problem is known as the passive approach. Although it is not the most popular approach it is still used. The mentality behind this method of problem solving is that if the problem was meant to be solved then it will solve it self, and if the problem was not meant to be solved then it will not. We see this when a young man who’s wife has just left him decides to do nothing but wait for her to return when and if she is ready to return (Lorca 93). Prayer is yet another way to solve one’s major life problems. Although this way to solve a problem is...
