What is Brock’s motive for external traveling outside the dome?

What type of conflict is Brock facing in the following paragraph?

“Affirmative.” Was he hoping customs would stop him? If he was, they didn’t seem to be helping him. Well, this was hat he wanted, wasn’t it? To go outside the dome.

Why is Brock anxious and worried about leaving the dome?

Based on the following, how can the character of Brock be described?

But even though the people in the ancient fictions frightened him a bit, he couldn’t get enough of them. When no one was paying attention, he went back again and again to visit them. They had made him wonder about that other world—that world outside the dome.

What type of conflict is presented in the following paragraph?

Should he signal late return or turn about now? He didn’t have much more than one day’s scant supply of water and food tablets. But he was closer to the hills than to the dome.