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Kate Dicamillo's 'Your Question For Author Here'
In the short story, “Your Question for Author Here”, by Kate Dicamillo and Jon Scieszka, Joe Jones faces a conflict with an author, Maureen O’Toople. Joe has to write a letter to this author for a school project, but he really doesn’t want to do this because he just doesn’t care, and is lazy about it as well. This was a person versus person conflict because Joe Jones was having a problem with Maureen O’Toople. In the beginning of the story, Joe was assigned a project by his literacy teacher that he didn’t want to do. All he wanted was answers from Maureen, but he was asking her for answers in a very rude way. Joe Jones said, “Please send a bunch of author stuff so we can get this over with”(101). This shows that Joe terribly doesn’t want to
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