Read this excerpt from “The Medicine Bag.” “Then a terrible thing happened to Iron Shell. He and several other young men were taken from their homes by the soldiers and sent far away to a white man’s boarding school. He was angry and lonesome for his parents and the young girl he had wed before he was taken away.”

The main conflict is between Iron Shell and the society represented by the soldiers and the boarding school. They take him from his home and separate him from his family and wife. This is character vs. society, not a struggle against nature, another individual, or his own thoughts.

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