The found poem I chose was taken by the book Lather and Nothing Else by Hernando Tellez. The conflict it shows is man vs. self conflict between the barber, the protagonist and himself, the antagonist. The conflict in the story is the barber shaving Captain Torres, and deciding whether to kill him or not, since he is an enemy of the barber’s people. In the excerpt of the story, Captain Torres enters his shop to get a shave, and struggling to decide whether to kill him or not. The barber is depicted in this passage as nervous and scared, but ultimately makes the decision to spare him since he thinks to himself, “But I don’t want to be a murderer… You came in to be shaved. And I do my work honorably…You are an executioner; I am a barber. Each one to his job.” (Tellez, 41) The conflict was resolved, but maybe in the future when they meet again the barber might have different thoughts.

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