Brainwashed

Authors Note: This is a piece about the conflict and resolution of The Mysterious Benedict Society.

The main conflict in the Mysterious Benedict Society (or MBS for short) is people vs society because the members in the group are trying to overthrow Mr. Curtain and the rest of the government officials working for him. Mr. Curtain is trying to transmit thoughts into people's minds so the community thinks of him as their leader. He is stealing people and breaking the law but the government can't stop him because half of the people in it are working for him. The other half are receiving his thoughts too, so they don't know something is wrong. Everyone goes along with it except the MBS because he is putting his own thoughts into everyone's minds through TV signals and they don't watch TV. The MBS spends a big part of the book undercover against society.

The conflict only gets resolved at the end of the third book, because the machine that transmits the signals gets intercepted by the MBS and they reverse it to get Mr. Curtains thoughts out of people's heads. After everyone's mind is reversed back, They go to Mr Curtain himself and destroy everything he has until he is forced to flee.