Conflict

I think that the conflict is between David and his mother. The conflict is obviously physical because of all the cruel things Mrs. Pelzer does to her son. While David is trying to survive sleeping in the cold garage and being a slave in his own home. Mrs. Pelzer excludes David from the dinner table, makes him sleep in the garage, burns him, and locks him in the bathroom with poisones gases. I think that no child should be treated that way, and if your going to do that to your children then you might as well put him/her up for adoption. Its surprising to me that David was able to survive all of this; even though he had to eat out of the garbage and steal other kids food at school and when he got caught his mother beat him even more then usual.