So although I titled this with another conflict that I found, Tally's journey is more of a quest than a conflict. Tally starts to see nature as a beauty in itself. "Tally has always thought of the city as huge, a whole world in itself, but the scale of everything out here was so much grander. And so beautiful" (pg. 153). Tally realizes that nature, without alterations or human modification, is beautiful, yet, she does not tie the same theory to humans or herself. This is a milestone from her admiring the party towers. I feel like Tally has not embraced the full concept of natural as beautiful at this point still, but she is beginning to transform her mind from broadening her range from town.
This just reminds me of the caged tigers theory. You can catch a tiger and train it to respond to you as a human because it only knows human interaction. Release that same tiger into the wild with other tigers and after apprehension, if it does not die, it will behave like the rest. The tiger does not have to train to be a tiger because it is one.
I don't know why this is included ^^. It made sense to me. What I am trying to say is that if you remove all the comforts of civilization, many humans will die, but some will readjust themselves into the new way of the world. Tally may be changing.
Tally is changing. I think that Shay understood that Tally was a person that would appreciate the life of nature and was pretty much trying to instill that same perspective she has on nature into Tally. But Tally didn't want to listen to Shay rendition on natural beauty, but now that she is in nature she can open her own eyes. So I absolutely agree with you.
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