I'm going to say no because i would say which they decided to adopt him
Answer:
Character motivation can affect a story's plot moving the plot forward and what's to come next in the story.
He smacked him in the face
The conflict of the story is when Peters father forces him to leave Pax by the side of the road . The conflict is man V. wild because of the rough terrain Peter battled throughout the book in the hopes of retrieving Pax