conflict

          Cole Matthews is struggling with a few things in our book. the biggest problem in the story is Cole himself. he is making all these bad decisions where he ends up getting in even worse situations. you could say it is man vs man, man vs nature, man vs society, or you could say its man vs himself which is the case.
          Cole is in a situation where all of those apply but the main one is man vs himself. he is the one making the decisions which wound him up in all the wrong places. he chose to rob and vandalize that store. he chose to beat peter up for telling on him. he did all of that and if he wouldn't have he wouldn't be where he is today.