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Mike's Internal Development
Mike’s Internal Development In the story “86th Street and the Summer of Love” by Colin Conway, Mike, a guy who struggles with sticking up for victims who get abused, changes because he wanted to do what is right at the end. The story is about a guy named Mike who is in a gang that beats up innocent people. Mike does not like to beat up these people, but he is too afraid to stand up to his friends and he does not want to lose them. In the beginning of the story, Mike and his gang decide to beat up a “dumpy kid”. Mike has an internal conflict as he “despised” the chubby kid for not fighting back and letting them beat on him (Conway, 1). This explains that Mike does not like fighting people, but he ends up abusing the kid anyways to stay apart
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