Conflict In Code Talker

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There are two main conflicts in Joseph Bruchac’s novel, Code Talker. The Bougainville battle was Ned’s first battle and was an all-around rough fight. This becomes apparent when Ned says, “[t]hose two months on Bougainville were so hard and strange” when he is talking about his time in Bougainville (Bruchac). This makes it obvious that Bougainville is a tough battle because Ned clearly states the battle was hard. The second major conflict in Code Talker was the battle of Iwo Jima. This comes through when Ned says, “[t]hose messages were a measure of how desperate things had become for us by 1100" when Ned is describing the messages he sent at Iwo Jima (Bruchac). Iwo Jima was an incredibly hard battle as shown when Ned describes the hardship