What conflict does Yoyo face in this excerpt? Yoyo is frustrated by her inability to write a good speech for the assembly at her school. Yoyo is worried about insulting her teachers and peers with the speech she has written. Yoyo is saddened by her father’s disapproval of the message in her speech for the assembly. Yoyo is reminded of the terrors her father faced under the dictatorship of the Dominican Republic.
