An example of this is "For a time, it seemed as if he had brought the problem to life himself by stating it, that if he didn't say anything halfway- the window wouldn't there would be. Was it possible? He didn't think so, that wasn't how the world worked. Even later, when he grew up, he sometimes found himself wondering if it was his fault, if it was something he had done. said." (Evenson 3) Evenson's diction in this example shows the conflict that the man has in mind by accepting the possibility that his sister is only part of his imagination his imagination, presenting the fact that maybe he doesn't want to accept the possibility that his sister is part of his imagination. That maybe he was the one who created the Windeye, the thing that took his sister away. He hoped his sister wasn't part of his imagination, that it was real. He tries to convince himself otherwise by saying “Was it possible? He didn't think so, that wasn't how the world worked. But if that wasn't true, the only other possibility is that Windeye is real and took his sister From this we learn that throughout his life he has always argued with himself about whether his sister and Windeye were real or not.