
My found poem is from the story Button Button by Richard Matheson, and it talks about the internal conflict between the protagonist Norma and her husband Arthur when they are fighting over whether or not to push a button that was given by a man called Mr. Steward, who is also the antagonist. While Norma only thinks about the money they can get and where they can go with that money, Arthur worries about the people who can die from the it. The inspiration behind the illustration is actually a collage of many different icons to show the conflict between the two. The icon I used for Norma is the housewife, and it’s thinking about all the things they could get and do if they pressed the button. Arthur is represented by the businessman, and all he can think of is the death that will happen once they do it. the red X between the two arrows represent the disagreement between the two characters, and the arrows pointed toward the button link them together to the push of the button. The website prism.scholarslab.org talks more about the conflict in this story here. The reason why I chose these words is because they represent the disagreement between the two. It gives a summary on what is going on between Norma and Arthur, and how they have a contradiction between two decisions, to push the button or not. You can read the full story here.