Thesis Statement: Conflict plays a major part in the short story “The Dawn”

In the short story “The Dawn,” we learn that there is many different kinds of conflict between man and nature, and father and son. While reading, I found that conflict was spread throughout the story. These next few paragraphs will explain the points in the story that I felt showed conflict the most.
Right in the beginning the short story, we see our first hint of conflict. The story starts with the line, “Deer, all they are good for is meat, and trophies. That was the first thing I had heard my Dad say when I woke up that cold November day.” We can see right off the bat that there is conflict between man and nature. To the Dad, deer are just good for meat and trophies. Not the beautiful and majestic creatures the son sees them as. This shows conflict between Father and Son and a little be of Man vs Nature. We see more conflict between the boy and his dad just a few lines later when he tells us “My dad and I were never really close, we always tried to separate ourselves from each other whenever we could. Don’t get me wrong, I love him, but I never really liked him.” We can obviously tell that the boy and his father have never been close, and that hunting was supposed to be a way to get them closer together.
The next spot where we see conflict in the story, is when the boy is told he has to shoot the deer. Close to the middle of the story, the father and his dad are in the woods hunting, they have been hunting for 12 hours and they hadn't seen a single deer. A deer finally comes out and the dad wants his son to shoot. The dad keeps “forcing” the son into shooting the deer. As the dad carried the deer back to their truck, the boy describes the hatred he feels for his dad at the moment. He thinks in his mind “I’ve never hated anything, or anyone, more than I hated my father right now. I was