The Golden Leaf - A Dilemma

The book ends with either getting the leaf and bringing it back to his mother in time for her to stay alive, or he fails and she dies. Greenleaf's got to choose between risking his own life or letting his mother and his entire village die. A dilemma is a situation in which a character has to decide something, but neither decision is easy. The climax of the story is the final alenge the protagonist must face.