“Thank You, M’am” by Langston Hughes
This is my Found Poem for Humanities, I did my found poem on “Thank you, m’am” by Langston Hughes. This poem expresses the main conflict of the story by using words found in the story, it talks about how Roger, who is the main character of the story is struggling to behave himself.
We can tell that Roger, who is the main character of the book is struggling to behave from the quote “It was about eleven o’clock at night, and she was walking alone, when a boy ran up behind her and tried to snatch her purse.” It shows that the boy is trying to steal the women’s purse and is up to no good at all, we can also tell from the quote “Good-night! Behave yourself, boy! she said, looking out into the street.”, we can tell the main conflict of the story is obviously internal conflict because the boy is fighting with his is own behaviors of stealing and doing bad things in society, in other words, we can say that the protagonist is Roger and the antagonist of the story is Roger’s internal behaviors, the women shaped and disciplined him through kindness and compassion from the quote “Then we’ll eat,” said the woman, I believe you’re hungry — or been hungry — to try to snatch my pocketbook.” This quotes shows that the women is offering Roger kindness and compassion to make him behave and not steal, which is what this whole story is trying to solve, which is to change Roger’s inner personality. From these quotes and evidences we cant tell that the main conflict of this story is internal conflict, which is trying to change Roger’s behaviors.
Behavior (my poem)
Roger was a boy,
he snatches people’s pocketbooks
The women took care,
he did not want to be mistrusted
The boy was to behave.
My poem sums up what I had written above, saying what Roger did like snatching the women’s pocketbooks, and stating that Roger is trying to battling against his own behaviors, in my poem I said “the boy was to behave” which is the main idea I am trying to express in my poem which is roger struggling to behave himself until the women taught him to, I couldn’t find any good words I could use to express the feeling, for example, fighting, battling, feelings, behavior, so the best sentence I could form is “The boy was to behave”.
The graphic design is that I used the color black to resemble the feeling of battle and struggle and I made the white part of of the story the Found Poem which resembles Roger being controlled by his own internal evil of stealing.
It might look a little bit bland or a bit too dark, but through these qualities, Im trying to show the internal conflict of the story through the color that I use, I used the darkest color for my graphic design.