The Neverending Story
What is the main conflict in The Neverending Story by Michael Ende?
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The novel begins with the hero, Bastian Balthazar Bux, a fat ten-to-twelve-year-old boy, stealing a book and hiding in the school attic to read it. He does not want to go to class; he wants to escape his unhappy life.