The conflict in the book "The running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen is very complicating. Jessica lost her leg in a car accident and she is having a lot of trouble recovering. She is very depressed especially about the fact that she will probably never be able to run again. She has to get a prosthetic leg just to help her walk again. She was always sad and depressed and even though everyone in her life was trying to help encourage her, she gave up and thought she was never going to be able run again, until her track team found something that would cheer her up. They showed her videos of people who had a prosthetic running leg and they were actually able to run. They decided that they would start a fund raiser to buy her one. They were very