In the beginning the two of us didn't get along at all. Fact to business, there was a time it seemed like to me Mitchell Thomas lived just to taunt me. There were other boys too who picked on me, but Mitchell was the worst. I recall one time in particular when I was about nine or so and I was reading beside a creek on my daddy's land, and Mitchell came up from behind me and just whopped me on the head. For no reason. Just whopped me on the head! Course I jumped up mad. "What ya do that for?" I cried. "Felt like it," he said. That's all; he felt like it. "Ya wanna do somethin' 'bout it?" —The Land, Mildred D. Taylor What type of conflict is shown in this passage? character vs. character character vs. self character vs. nature character vs. society
