 He also resents having to help around the home and farm with all the tasks that his father would have done, and his mother and sister criticise his laziness.Conflict flares one day when Lucien is sledging down to school and accidentally collides with Annette's sledge, throwing her into a ditch full of snow.Out of resentment at her success in school, he doesn't stop to help her, but speeds off to school instead.