Hunters In The Snow Conflict

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Hunters in the Snow had several conflicts in the story. The conflict that I am going to discuss is person against person which has to do with Kenny’s mistreatment of Tub throughout the story. The rising of the conflict starts at the beginning of the story when Kenny almost hit Tub with his truck and then thought it was funny. It progresses from there as Kenny proceeds to make fun of his weight by saying “He looks just like a beach ball with a hat on”. He jokes about the diet Tub is on stating, “first diet I ever heard of where you gained weight from it”. Kenny started to drive off and leave Tub as they were on their way to the farmer’s house so that Tub had to run and jump in the bed of the truck in order not to get left. The story started

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