January Book Report, Pt. 5

There are a lot of conflicts in Children of the Lamp: The Akhenaten Adventure. I mean, duh, there's going to be. Think about it: book with the balance of the world somebody's hands, there's got to be some huge conflicts. Most of the conflicts in this story were external.
We'll start with the most glaringly obvious conflict ever: good versus evil with control of the world as the victor's prize. One of the biggest conflicts possible, short of universal dominance in the balance. This conflict is pretty basically explained, mostly by Nimrod simply telling the twins this, after showing them the homeostasis. I mean, it's basically, 'Hey, you want to know why we have to go Egypt? Because if we don't, evil might rule the world.' I don't really think you can be much more blunt than that, short of renting a huge billboard and proclaiming it to anyone who drives by. Back to the conflict, the twins and Nimrod attack the conflict by flying to Egypt, where they eventually find out that the "seventy lost djinn of Akhenaten," (yep, that's where the title comes in), are actually contained in one of the royal scepters that Akhenaten, a former ruler of ancient Egypt in the Eighteenth Dynasty, used. This is a problem, because there are at least four scepters from the Eighteenth Dynasty known to be in existence, housed around the world in various museums, most importantly (to the story), the Cairo Museum and the British Museum, in London, which is conveniently where Nimrod lives. Moving on, since the one in the Cairo Museum had already been broken, that was a dead end.
So, the small group flies back from London, where they eventually free the 'lost djinn,' bind them to the side of good, and trap Akhenaten's ghost into a canopic jar. The only problem is, they trap Nimrod in there, too. This is where the next external conflict comes in: how to get Nimrod out, while still trapping the ghost in? John eventually comes up with the idea of going to the North Pole (since djinn powers weaken with cold), and helping Nimrod out and leaving the ghost in. They eventually succeed, not without a lot of luck, but they still succeed. This is pretty much the last conflict in the story.
In my mind, I think that I would've handled the conflicts the same way. Since Nimrod basically leads the investigation, I wouldn't have had to do much in Egypt. But I'm not sure I would've been able to think of going to the North Pole to release Nimrod. However, I think that if someone else would come up with the idea I would probably have handled it the same.