Graceling's Resolution

 Author's Note:  This piece uses the book Graceling to demonstrate my understanding of Conflict/Resolution.

Graceling is set in a land that is full of people that have special talents. These talents are called graces.  The king of Monsea is one of these people that have a grace, but no one knows that because he is gifted with a grace that allows him to lie and others to believe his lies.  Two gracelings, Katsa and Po, realize this and go after the king to try to stop him before he uses his power to harm.

However, they arrive too late.  When they reach Monsea, they come upon King Leck killing his wife.  They immediately turn and start the search to find Bitterblue, Leck's daughter.  They find her and start planning the murder of Leck. Po attempts, fails, and comes back injured.  The group separates and Katsa ends up face to face with Leck.  He tries to feed Katsa his lies, but Katsa sees through them and shoots Leck, diminishing the threat.

The main conflict is that King Leck is manipulating people with his lies.  This is a person vs. person conflict. The resolution to the conflict is that Katsa kills King Leck.

In Mockingjay, it's also a person vs. person conflict. The story is a little different however because for the majority of the book Katniss thinks that she wants to kill President Snow, but then at the end of the book she realizes that Coin was the reason that her sister died. So, she finds the person that lied to her, Coin, and she kills her.