Conflict In Matty's The Messenger

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The conflict in The Messenger is the Forest. It is constantly killing or injuring everyone who enters it (except Matty) and is continuosly groing thicker, sealing of the communities around it from each other and making them seperate. Each person who enters is given a warning to get out. This can come in the form of a sharp prick from a thorn or a becoming entangled in vines. If a person recieves a warning the should immediately get out of the forest. Matty has never recieved a warning so he travels through the forest to pick up a friend from another village. When he returns to the forst it gets darker and more foul smelly. It literally tries to kill him and his friend multiple times before Matty uses his gift and heals the girl, forest, and

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