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In the text, I have highlighted words or phrases like kiss, oldest, I stunned, and sinking heart this describes the main conflict of the story, which is internal conflict that the main character ‘I’ thinking about the reason why his/her father doesn’t kiss him/her anymore. The reason that I thought this is the main conflict of the story is that the story after the first time father didn’t kiss to ‘I’ is all about the ‘I’ thinking about the reason of father’s behavior that he saw that night and how ‘I’ felt about father not kissing to ‘I’ and ‘I’ tries to get kiss from father again and again after that night. There are a lot of description how ‘I’ was panic such as: “I was stunned. There was something in his voice that made me decide not to ask again,” and this is the part of the conflict because it shows the feeling of the first day that father didn’t kiss to her/him.

The words that I highlighted also describes the climax of the story that ‘I’ finally realize and accept that he was too old to get kissed by father. My drawing at the background which are broken heart and rose represent the childhood of the author long for the love of his/her parents and this is related with the conflict of the story because the conflict is caused from the author willing his/her parents to love her/him more and to kiss him as a evidence. Therefore, he/she might be very anxious and hope to make sure the reason that father didn’t kissed to him/her.

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