I am currently reading the book I AM A SEAL TEAM SIX WARRIOR by Howard E. Wasdin and Stephen Templin. One of the conflicts of the book was that the main character would be abused as a child. His father would beat him every time he did something wrong or did not work hard enough at his job. He would be beat if there were seeds on the driveway because of the trees they had. The problem resolves itself by the main character becoming a marine to escape his life. His whole childhood had prepared him for that. He could endure huge amounts of pain. Also he became a sniper and to do that you need to pay close attention to detail to do that. Picking up the seeds from the driveway helped him with that. The theme that revealed itself was that you should not give up no matter what even if you think you cant take it anymore. Another theme i thought was presented was that you should do anything even if it is pointless because in the future it might help you out.