Answer: No.
Explanation: I think Ponyboy never wanted to fight in the rumble because he hates violence. He was being there for his family.
The conflict in the short story Condensed milk is survival in a Gulag, hunger, and desperation.
Explanation:
The story follows Shestakov, a camp geologist who asks a miner to help him escape the Gulag. The miner knows the task is impossible but because he is hungry he agrees to do it in exchange for 2 cans of condensed milk.
Many prisoners attempt to escape with Shestakov but are captured and some of them are killed.
In this story, the miner walks into sure death just to have condensed milk once. The desperation and perennial hunger of the gulags pushed him to trade his life for some food that is usually a staple in normal people's lives.
This hunger and desperation is the main conflict of the story.
Moral lesson:
'My fellow students, let us make good use of every opportunity we have for the only time to make hay is now that the sun is shining.
I think it's "scolded in a mild way" according to the context. Sorry if I'm wrong
