I created this found poem from the words of  “My side of the story” by Adam Bagdasarian. I think this story represents a person-to-person, external conflict. Inevitably blockading the protagonist from getting skipped punished. In the beginning of the story, the protagonist does not want to shoot baskets with Skip’s because he was practicing his signatures. This made Skip mad and he decided to retaliate against him by sticking scotch tape on half of the main character’s head and pulling out multiple hairs in revenge of his rejection to play, which lead to him seeking help from his mother. Despite already being physical abused; how he entered the room; “screaming at the top of his lung”, his father (the antagonist) did not show any empathy nor punish Skip for his actions only because he interrupts moment between his parents, resulting in his father being angry at him. The older brother torments his brother for such minor disagreements to make him feel helpless and outraged already, whilst his father and mother still show a lack of support and understanding and anything he “said would only make it worse.”

I used different fonts in every sentence to show the different meanings of the main characters’ feelings throughout the story as the conflict develops through different stages of emotions. I choose a dark rainy background to represent the emotions of the main character; turmoil and isolation. The real hand of a person on the top right conner connects with the handprint at the end of the last sentence gives the meaning of his last hope for the “call for help” after abused unfairly by his brother the last handprint represents his desire for his brother to be according punished to the frozen handprint turning into helplessness. The double red–lines of scares represents the double scares left from being physically hurt and then emotional neglected from his father, the antagonist who does not care. Lasty, the head in tape in the bottom left corner represents the protagonists head stuck with Scotch tape with hair falling out due to the stickiness, as described in the story. The other two faded bodies in the background are the shadows of the protagonist’s past trauma of being abused of being “stuffed in the laundry hamper” and “tied to a chair with best ties” by his brother using similar reasons; it represents the “build up” process of this conflict which led him seeking help from his mother causing an argument being him and his dad. Unfortunately, his father did not care about anything other than issues that are extremely serious, which led the main characters “body” still tangled with tape in the background.