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There are many conflicts in Stuck in Neutral by Terry Truman, but the central conflicts revolve around Shawn's desire to stay alive and prove that his life has worth and his father's desire to do what is right for his son. The moral conflicts in this novel are what make it so compelling and memorable. In general, because Shawn in the narrator of the novel and also has CP, all of the conflict on his part is an inner conflict. He cannot...
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