THE LAST KISS- Ralph Fletcher

“My mother was the first woman I ever loved. A good night kiss from my mother meant a great big hug. I went to my father and he knew why I was there. I decided to try my father again. Maybe last night’s missed kiss was no more than a quirk. There were more several unfamiliar tries. I noticed that I was too old to be kissed by my father.” -A part of the last kiss- 

I read the story, the last kiss which is about a child who wanted to be kissed by its parents every night. A good night kiss stood for a great hug to it. The main mentioned that it could go off to bed comfortably after kissing its parents. But one night it went to its father to be kissed by him and he surely knew why it was there but he turned away from it.  

I believe that the main conflict is that its father ceased kissing it before every bedtime. The reason is that in fact, the word conflict is a struggle or a disagreement between characters. Add more, most events such as climax, falling action, feeling, behaviors are altered after the action of the conflict.  

Therefore the relationship between it and its father had changed after the conflict, even though it tried lots of efforts to be kissed by its father, everything had become more awkward and awkward after stop kissing and they were estranged from each other. It was the first time that the main character felt something weird and later it knew that it was too old to be kissed by its father. This scene fits perfectly into the meaning of conflict. Therefore I strongly feel like the conflict of this story is that its father stopped kissing it. 

I identify that conflict in the story is external. The reason is that one of the external conflicts is character versus character which means conflict happens people against people. And conflict happened between it and its father in the story. Therefore I consider it is an external conflict. 

In my pound poem,  I mostly cared about the color because I thought it could demonstrate the concept of the story. For example, I used blue, brown, gray on the first page to share the story would be sad. Add more to that, I drew people who are hugging. The reason is that the main character mentioned that a good night meant a hug. 

I used orange, brown, yellow on the second page because the main character realized that it was too old to be kissed by its parents, realized the truth. Therefore I wished it would fill with joy. I used yellowish colors and put a heart.  

In both pages, I divided the background into variable shapes because I wanted to present the character’s feeling of sorrow, pain at its father by fragments of a mirror.  

 

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