Fences by Willow

Fences by Willow

This Drama takes place in the backyard of Troy Maxsons’ home. The characters include Troy Maxson, His wife Rose, Their son Cory, Troys’ son Lyons , Troys disabled brother Gabriel, Troys’ friend Bono, and the woman that Troy has an affair with and Raynell who is Troys daughter to the woman .Troy is not someone who gets along well with his children always thinking the worst of them so much so that he prevents his son Cory from going to college with a football scholarship. Cory is Picked in a football draft by a North Carolina scout. But Troy will have no part of it says Cory cannot make a living playing ball because he is black. The reason he believes this is because he holds a grudge from not being allowed to play major league baseball. The way it is prevented is by Troy is he goes and tells the football coach that Cory is no longer allowed to play and there is no need to send the scout. At first I thought that Troy and Rose loved each other but come to find out that they had an abusive relationship and there was also cheating involved. Troy found himself a fling on the side who he ended up having a daughter with. The woman died and Rose was made to raise their daughter Raynell as her own child. I also seen the meanness in Troy when he threw his son Cory out of the house and made him grow up early due to him protecting his mom from Troy. This forces Cory to join the Marines which we find out later in this Drama. This family is a blended family with a lot of problems including money, Raceisim, abuse, Infidality and alcoholism. All these issues are surely a recipie for disaster. Troys’ friend Bono finds out about his affair and confronts him. Troy does not take kindly to this confrontation and pretty much tells Bono to mind his own business. Troy finds out his woman is pregnant and confronts Rose with the news. Troy has no consideration for Roses’ feelings, dreams or desires. Troy portrays a selfish man. He reminds me of a spoiled child who gets everything he wants. The facts and reasoning he gave to his wife as to why he was cheating and why he was going to continue to cheat just made me sick. Rose gave up all her dreams and desires for 18 years to be the best wife and mother she could possibly be to Troy and his kids. When she receives the news of Troys’ cheating it is a slap in the face because he pretty much saying she cannot fulfill his needs and desires and that she is smothering him with bills and house payments.  

Drama blog A Raisin In The Sun

A Raisin In The Sun
In this drama a blended family resides in a small apartment. The family is a struggling black family.The family consists of the mother, Son, His Wife and their son and the husbands sister.The Husband works as a chaufer for a white man , His wife and mother clean homes for rich white people. The sister is attending college to become a doctor.The husband has a dream of owning a liquor store with two of his buddies from the bar. His dream seems like it may happen when his mother is expecting a ten thousand dollar check frfom the death of her husband.This buisness venture turns out to be a scam . When the one man recieved the other two mens monewy he skipped town .This causes the son to loose his mind because he lost all of what was left of their money including what he was supposed to sit aside for his sisters tuition. The Mother goes and buys a house in a predominantly all white neighborhood. She surprises the family with this news. They all have a differnt reaction to it. The wife is extremely happy when she hears this because she has found out that she is pregnant again .. There is allready not enough room in the house they are in her son is forced to sleep on the couch.But with the excitement of the new house comes problems as well. The so called welcoming committie shows up at their house to make them an offer on their new house because they are not welcome there. The reason for this is they are black.

Triffles By Susan Glaspell week 13

Trifles

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Susan Glaspell

This play takes place in the home of John Wright and his wife. It is soon to be found that John is dead. He was found hanging by a rope in his bedroom. The setting is very cold and suspicious of his wife. The atmosphere of the opening scene is that of a woman who seems shocked and scared. She does not answer the Sheriff when he comes into her home about her husband. The sheriff asks to see her husband John. She tells him that he cannot see him. He wanders why. And the widow of John answers that John is dead. The atmosphere changes throughout the play from suspicion to concern for Mrs. Wright, some might even say that the women felt sorry for her or even responsible for what happened. Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters are standing close together by the door while Mr. Hale explains what happened to the county attorney. Where the women are standing indicates that they may not get along to well with the men. Minnie Foster who was the wife of John Well’s used to be involved in the choir and loved to sing. Minnie also used to take pride in the way she looked and was happy and social. Minnie’s marriage became a suffocating life for her . She no longer got to sing or cared how she looked. Minnie was very busy with the farm she lived on and took no time for herself. John Wright was crushing the life out of his wife and was causing her to really have no life at all. He stripped her of all she loved and caused her a lot of pain. I think that Minnie killed him because she could not take any more of his abuse. I believe that when he broke the canaries neck that was the final straw, she had reached her breaking point. The men fail to see the clues that the women find because they think that everything that the women do is stupid. I believe that what was meant by the line we call it it knot it was reffering to the rope around John’s neck it probably had been tied with the same sort of knot that was used in Minnies stitching.

The Naked Lunch Michael Hollinger week 13

Naked lunch

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Michael Hollinger

I tend to agree with Vernon. Lucy seems more sympathetic. The reason I agree with Vernon is because he brings up a good point about listening to everything that is said about eating . For example where he said about eating more bran and how it was good for you one day and could kill you the next. I think that Lucy is more sympathetic because she tries to let it go and Vernon made a big issue out of the fact that Lucy would not eat meat. Lucy has become a vegetarian due to learning of the health risk that are involved in eating meat. Vernon becomes very offended by the fact that Lucy will not eat the meat so much to the point he makes fun of her and practically forces her to eat the steak. Vernon feels that he worked hard on making this dinner and if Lucy does not eat the steak it is a reflection upon him. I think that Vernon is the Antagonist of this drama because he seems to be the lesser of the two characters. The centeral conflict of the story is the fact that Lucy will not eat the steak. The final tone of the story is that of anger and humiliation. Vernon changes his whole attitude towards Lucy when he cuts her steak and makes her eat  it. When Lucy first got there Vernon had the hopes of a reconciliation but by the time that Vernon cut Lucy’s Steak any hopes of getting back together were gone and all that was left for him was anger. I do not understand why this was called the naked lunch. The only thing I could see was that he was hoping to get naked in the begining but this never happened.