"Life Of Galileo"; Conflict is an Essential Ingredient for Social Progress

Hi guys, I have an english test about encountering conflict based on the book "Life Of Galileo" in 2 days. I find it quite hard to explore ideas about conflict because of the fact that "LOG" is too complicated with too many in-depth characters. I am thinking of writing a creative piece on whatever the prompt will be on that day with a letter Galileo is writing to whoever. Or an interview. However, I have never written creative pieces and have been writing the ol' boring expository piece since forever. Any tips? Any website that I can go as a study guide of the conflicts in the book? I always suck at english :( So i just want to prepare something just to pass, thats it.

These are some practice prompts I need to crack:

Conflict is an Essential Ingredient for Social Progress. (this is my homework tonight and obviously I am stuck on as well)
Conflicts challenge individuals to discover their strengths and personal flaws
Who we are is truly tested and proven when we encounter conflict
Some conflicts are unavoidable
At the heart of conflict is fear
Conflict can make us better people
Progress is often a result of conflict
Oppression will always lead to conflict

This raises a lot of thoughts in my mind, but I might not be thinking of the same topics that are covered in your class. You should respond to the prompt in a way that includes ideas discussed in the class readings. But when I look at this, it makes me think of the problems of communism. Kyle Marx wanted to create a system where there wouldn't be conflicts like there is capitalism. He looked at the history of capitalism and saw how there was always conflict between the working class and the wealthy class, and he saw that the society would always be inherently unstable because of the conflict. So, it was that kind of thinking that gave rise to communism. But communism has its own problems, and they can sometimes be similar to the problems in any bureaucracy.

Progress comes from discontent, and people don't make much progress when they are already content. When we are content we become complacent, so that's why conflict is essential for progress. This is just a general idea, and I'm not trying to give EDN should your homework question; you still have to find examples from readings and explore this idea as much as you can, but I think it might be interesting to you to consider the stuff I said about communism and capitalism.

Search for this in Google to get the notes: life of galileo, sparknotes
When you have read the notes about it, will be easy to appreciate it when you read it through from start to finish and really enjoy it. Good luck with this great project!