-The Sad Conflicts In "A Story"-

A) "A Story" is a short poem that develops alot of emotions between the speaker and the reader, but also develops a tension of the main characters in this story. The poet of the poem "A Story" helps develop his poem through the central tension of the main character who has issues coping with himself resulting in an internal conflict, but he also helps develop the central conflict through different types of literary devices such as binary opposition and foreshadowing.
       The main character in this story faces a conflict not only coping with his son, but also with himself. The issue is that he is too "boring" and he has a fear that his son is going to leave him some day due to this issue. An example that supports this is," In a room full of books in a world of stories, he can recall not one, and soon, he thinks the boy will give up on his father." Other than some of the given examples, conflict is emphasized in this story by binary opposition. An example of binary opposition in the story is," Not the same story, Baba. A new one." This example shows the differences of his son having a reason to leave him, and his son being unable to leave him. The last thing in this poem that helped the speaker develop the main characters conflict was his use of foreshadowing. It his foreshadowed that the boy would leave his father due to the lack of stories the father had. This lead to the emotional break down of the main character with lead to the realization of the internal conflict; coping with his lac of stories.