Question

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.

What type of conflict does Paul experience in this excerpt?
(A) character vs. nature
(B) character vs. character
(C) character vs. self
(D) character vs. society

Answer 1

B:character vs. character

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

The type of conflict Paul experiences in the excerpt is the following one:

(B) character vs. character.

Since there is the narration of a character's action which had a direct effect on another character (the whopping on the head by Mitchell, which caused Paul to feel angry), it is a conflict of character vs character.