Found Poem in Fish Cheeks!

A found poem is a type of poem using the words found in an article which were highlighted.

The story “Fish Cheeks” by Amy Tan, is talking about a girl named Amy whose parents invited the boy she liked, Robert, for Christmas. She was so ashamed about all the Chinese traditions in her family towards the American boy that she wanted to disappear. The main conflict in the story is the internal conflict of Amy which she struggles between the food she liked and the boy she liked.

The paragraphs I chose to do the found poem started when Robert arrived. The words for the poem were how he reacted towards the movement of Amy’ family and how Amy felt inside her heart, how awkward she felt.  And that’s what her internal conflict was, which I wanted to show.

The background I drew was a girl crying with tears dropping down on to her hair. Also, I drew it and highlighted the words in blue which is a really sad color. The background color is red hinted that the setting was the Chinese tradition and red is a representing color for this tradition.