The story “Fish Cheeks” is written by a Chinese-American writer named Amy Tan.  This story talks about how the protagonist is ashamed of her family’s tradition, during Christmas Eve dinner. The conflict starts out when her family invites the Minister’s family over for Christmas Eve. Coincidentally, the protagonist also has a crush on the minister’s son. This is where the external conflict comes. She is very embarrassed by her family and relatives during this meal and she wants to fit in with the Americans. For example, the story says, “What would Robert think of our shabby Chinese Christmas” or “What would he think of our noisy Chinese relatives who lacked American manners.” In another paragraph, it states, “Dinner threw me deeper into despair” For my Found Poem, I printed out a Goldfish with a black background. I cut out important words and phrases from the short novel and stuck them onto my goldfish background.