Always fit in with society

The found poem “always fit in with society” is a poem that represents the short story “the Fan Club” by Ronan Maynard and strives to replicate the stories elements such as theme and conflict. In “the Fan Club” the main character Lura, is commonly bullied and is always alone. This information is key to the story as it is what leads the storyline, so I have chosen to include the part of the introduction were it lists all the people against the main character Lura that are considered “cold and unkind” , I have also tried to make this part unique by putting it verticality showing that Lura is truly outnumbered.  After the introduction ends Lura is then caught in a situation where she overhears the “cold and unkind people” as stated earlier plotting an attack against someone that she expects to be herself. I decided that this was important to include as Lura will continue to live out her day, make decisions, and have suspensions with that in mind. It will later also help highlight herself centered character. The next part of the story is where another character Rachel invites Lura to come to her house. This one of the largest examples of internal conflict in the story, as Lura has heard that the place where Rachel lives is terrible and uncomfortable but also thinks that it is always better to fit in with other people and chose to fake enthusiasm. I have highlighted this part in the poem by putting the two parts of the conflict on different sides showing that they are to separate sides that will not work together. We can see then that Rachel decides to go with the faking enthusiasm side. The largest example of internal conflict and the most important part of the poem come and the stories climax.  Lura finds out that the plotted attack was not on her rather on Rachel who she was beginning to fit in with. Firstly, I used “bell sounded ending the period,” as a transition to show that time is passing. As this is the climax, I found it important to describe the scene in more detail, so I took some of the key details to set the scene. In the scene the bully club has made upsetting signs that the are going to wear to harm Rachel. Then the internal conflict within Lura when the leader of the club offers her one of the signs. Again, in the poem I chose to show both side of the internal conflict, she can stay with Rachel and stay at her defense or join the attack. I have also tried to build up suspense by pointing out the mocking smile and showing the growing rhythms of claps leading up to her final decision to join the bully club. With all this in mind I think that the theme of this story is that you should always fit in with society no matter what society is doing or what they believe. This can be seen to a lesser extent back when Rachel invites Lura to her house, just Lura and Rachel would not probably be considered society but still fits with the idea that more is always better than less. However, this is mostly seen in Lura’s last decision to join the bullies where she appears to join them even when she disagrees with what most of them think and only does it because most of the people are. Finally, I think that the art perfectly represents this. Being pretty basic it shows that a lot of people are good and being alone is bad, it does say anything about those people so I think that it well represents the theme of the story that you should always fit in with society no matter they are doing or believe.