My wife is an English teacher, and she’s been doing a unit on the elements of literature. One of the key elements, as you may remember from your own English classes back in the day, is conflict. Conflict is the driving force behind any story, and it comes in a variety of flavors. According to the Virginia Department of Education’s Standards of Learning (SOLs, or “those things that get in the way of us teaching”), there are six different kinds of conflict: