My found poem is created with the words from “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl. The protagonist in the novel is Mary Maloney and her husband, Patrick Maloney is the antagonist. The external conflict is person versus person between Mary and Patrick. At the beginning of my found poem, I use words of how Mary felt originally in her home: a “warm” room “without anxiety.” But when Patrick comes home, he acts differently by drinking more than he usually does and acts very calmly. He refuses anything that Mary tries to give him and repeats the line, “sit down” to Mary. After this line, I used words describing how Mary feels now when Patrick is home, feeling “frightened” and “shocked.” This line, “sit down,” is foreshadowing that Patrick is about to tell Mary the bad news that he is leaving her. This makes Mary feel “slight nausea” and making her “vomit.” Because of Mary’s feelings, she uses the lamb leg and hits Patrick, killing him. After killing Patrick, Mary feels better, more “clear”, but she faces her new problem. The internal conflict is person versus self, between Mary and herself. She is thinking of ways to hide the fact she killed her husband. She gets motivation from her unborn baby since she is trying to protect her baby. She is thinking harder about all her actions she does and tries to convince herself to act “natural” and using “no acting” to pretend she didn’t murder Patrick. I used a red background with red blood stains to show the violent external conflict, which led to the internal conflict of Mary trying to hide her actions. I made the important phrases and words in the story bigger to emphasize Mary’s journey as she kills her husband but tricks everyone thinking she didn’t. This lets Mary lose her husband and her innocence but gains her own freedom and a bright future for her unborn baby.