The Borrowers-By Mary Norton

 The Borrowers, by Mary Norton, 200 pages

  There are more than one conflicts in the book "The Borrowers", but they all originate from the major conflict. The main conflict of the story is the problem Arrietty Clock faces, being “seen”, just like her father, Pod Clock. When a borrower is "seen", it means that they are seen by a human being, which means that the borrower must emigrate. It is the central theme, the utmost fear of every tiny borrower. It culminates when Arrietty gets "seen". It leads to many more mistakes, which are actually the other conflicts, related like a chain to each other. Arrietty doesn't react like a normal borrower. Instead of telling her family, Arrietty keeps it a secret. She also goes back to the person who saw her, a young boy, and talks to him, and even befriends him. Nobody knows about her secret, until she decides to meet him in the middle of the night. She is talking to the boy when her father  enters the room where they are having a conversation. When Pod realizes that Arrietty was "seen", and had gone talking to a human being, he gets so scared that he becomes very angry at Arrietty. He tells Homily, and she has the same reaction. 

  The Clocks are very frustrated because: a) Arrietty didn't tell them about her problem. 

b) She had befriended a human being. c) She had gone back to the human being and talked to him. d) She had lied to her parents when they had asked her if she had been "seen".

  Arrietty becomes very anxious, but she makes a huge mistake right in front of her parents, when the boy opens the floorbed, and finds the Clock's home. He talks to Arrietty, and asks her when she could come and read to him, because he is illiterate. The mistake she makes is telling him that she will come soon. Homily nearly faints when she hears those words come out of her daughter's mouth. 

  There are many conflicts in this book, and all of them are connected to each other.
The conflict was resolved when the young boy rescues the Clocks. His family finds out where their house is, and were going to call the police, but the boy was very smart. He put the whole Clock family into his pocket and took them to the backyard, where the Clocks started their long journey to freedom and safety. That was how the conflict was resolved. 
 The Clocks had to emigrate, and Arrietty was forgiven, for her parents had realized that there are some human beings who aren't  bad and scary and evil and dangerous.