As I was going up the stair, I saw a man that wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today! Oh, how I wish he'd go away
Because he's looking for things to do.
encouraging readers in the end to look at their world in a more quantitative way
The conflict, is the struggle or problem that causes events in a story to progress...
Nathan filled the knothole in the tree to prevent Boo from giving the children gifts. To trick the children, he told them the tree was sick and the knothole needed to be filled.