The protagonists in the story would be the Buergenthals, who are hiding from the nazi's. The antagonists in the story would be the nazi party who are trying to exterminate the jews. The story A Lucky Child is told in first person. The tone of the story is very sad because all of the jews that die while the mood is very serious because the holocaust is a very important part of history. An external conflict of the story would be Thomas VS the Nazis and his will to survive. An internal conflict of the story would be Thomas VS Thomas and him fighting starvation. Thomas uses imagery when he describes the concentration camp Auschwitz. The climax of the story is when Thomas meets with his mother after the war because after that there is no war action and he is safe from the Nazis. The falling action of the story is when Thomas goes to the U.S. to live out the rest of his life.