The story “The Last Kiss” by Ralph Fletcher is about an eight-year-old kid’s last goodnight kiss from his/her parents, especially from his/her father. The main conflict that appears in this story is about the main character’s father does not give the main character goodnight kisses after he starts to get busy. The main character finds it a bit weird, so he/she tried several times to get a goodnight kiss, but after all, he/she still did not get a single kiss. Instead, his/her father just used the word “Goodnight.” As I read this story, I found it a little bit sad that at the end, the main character realizes that he/she was too old for a kiss. He/she was just 8 when he/she realized this. Since he/she did not get a kiss from his/her father, he/she decides to not get a kiss from his/her mother as well. If you look at my work, you can see that the background is an image of a father and a son holding hands. (We are not sure if the main character is a boy or a girl, but I think it is more likely to be a boy, so I chose the image as a son and a father.) The reason I chose this image as my background description is that I wanted to show the readers that these were the main two characters in this story and a deep story between the two of them.

While I was creating this, I spent a bit of time deciding where to put my poem because the image I chose will have a lot of meaning to it depending on where I put the poem. This is because this image is showing the good relationship between a son and a father that is why they are holding hands, but the story “the last kiss” is actually about an awkward relationship between the main character and his/her father because his/her father decides to not give a goodnight kiss. It’s hard to say what kind of relationship they are, but for me, I think this is an awkward relationship because of the action he/she and his/her father did.

This story can mean after the conflict happened, there was a wall between the father and the son/daughter where it can be visible but also it can’t be visible. I wanted to show this relationship in my design so I thought of using the poem to hide the holding hand’s part, but on the other hand, this story can also mean because of this the two of them can have a special feeling about themselves. In this part, I wanted to show the holding hands part because I wanted to send the message that you can reform the relationship after you and someone else had some conflict with each other. This is why the image on top of this blog is a gif, I wanted to show both of them. Hope that after you read this explanation, you can help me decide how can I do with the image I chose. Also, help me see if the image, the poem relate to this explanation.