What story element does the author develop in this excerpt? FROM THE ALL-AMEALL-AMERICANS SLURP. TAX Next day Meg and I got on the school bus together. I wasn't sure how she would feel about me after the spectacle our family made at the party. But she was just the same as usual, and the only reference she made to the party was, "Hope you and your folks got enough to eat last night details about the school plot details about the dinner party conflict between characters characterization of Meg