Story name: My side of the story by Adam Bagdasarian. 

Conflict explanation: 

The conflict of the story is about injustice in the main character’s house. At the beginning of the story, we learnt how the brother put the scotch tape onto the character’s head, tearing it off his head. Later, we see how he runs to his mother’s room seeking help with bullying his brother but sees his dad in it. Since the dad was furious, he did the same thing to the main character (maybe whipping too but idk). This conflict is a human vs human one as well as an external conflict. We can see that through the problems the main character is facing. The character is facing problem with his brother and father indicating the human vs human conflict. 

“So, he tried, and I yowled, and he stopped. Then he gently pulled a piece of scotch tape off the side of my head, along with six or seven of my temple hairs.”  

“Skip put scotch tape on my head, I ran to tell mom, found pop, and the lights went out”  

Those two quotes show the character’s struggle, the first one shows the terrible thing his brother did to him and the second one shows how his father wasn’t on his side when the brother bullied him.  

Poem explanation: 

The poem highlights the word “justice” a lot since it’s one of the main ideas of the poem. The poem describers how justice is good talking about how you need evidence to punish the person who wrongfully acted.

Citations: 

Commonlit “My Side of The Story” Adam Bagdasarian, fragment from ” First French Kiss And Other Traumas” by Adam             Bagdasarian, 2004

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1330_001 -> my found poem

https://www.commonlit.org/en/texts/my-side-of-the-story 

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/144463.Adam_Bagdasarian