Tree:
How tall you grow tree,
From ground to sky you grow,
Much to big for me!
Lying in the sun
Thinking over things I've done
Summer has begun
I like both of these Haiku's because they sound right in my head. They also rhyme with a clear message when it is being read. The first one is about a tree that is growing and the second one is about Summer beginning. I think these are good because there is not a deeper meaning in the poem and they rhyme well.
Friday, March 30, 2018
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Peer Haiku
I heard a loud clap
I tried to pass it to Jack
Slap! I woke him up
I liked the one written by Josh because it was something that happened in class. Also, I like that the poem is very simple and it has a good flow to in.
I tried to pass it to Jack
Slap! I woke him up
I liked the one written by Josh because it was something that happened in class. Also, I like that the poem is very simple and it has a good flow to in.
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
Haiku
1.)
I took off my cap
I picked up the old mouse trap
I started to clap
2.)
The flag was flapping
My hands are always clapping
But they do not snap
Every day I hear rap
I start to clap with rhythm
My fingers will snap
I took off my cap
I picked up the old mouse trap
I started to clap
2.)
The flag was flapping
My hands are always clapping
But they do not snap
Every day I hear rap
I start to clap with rhythm
My fingers will snap
Friday, March 9, 2018
Third Draft
Joey Wright
The Glass Menagerie is a play that is about a very poor dysfunctional family that lives in St. Louis. The three characters are Amanda who is the mother, Tom who is the son and Laura who is the daughter. They all live together and Tom is the one who works to pay the bills for the family. Tom is 22 years old and is works in a shoe factory. He has dreams of being a writer but is stopped by his mother Amanda. In our performance project, we performed the first dinner scene mixed with one of the arguments between Amanda and Tom. We included costumes, music, lighting and props in our performance. I feel like it was an okay performance because sometimes we were off on the lines and stage directions. I believe that our group worked fairly well together, however, there were numerous times where the lines were changed so that definitely effected the way that I performed and even the rest of my group members.
Tom is a very angry person. One moment he is quiet and minding his own business and then the next moment he is yelling. This is for good reason though because Amanda is always telling him what to do. For instance, in the scene we performed, Tom had just arrived at home from his job and sat down and started eating. Amanda notices and starts to tell Tom how to eat his food in great detail. This always makes Tom mad enough to where he has to leave the room and get a cigarette. His feeling towards Amanda is very negative. Because she constantly disturbs him, Tom has an extreme motivation to leave the house and let Amanda and Laura live on their own which is nods up happening at the end of the book. When I was playing Toms character I felt the anger he was feeling in the book. Playing his role really helped me to understand how angry he was because I needed to understand when to raise my voice. Tom feels trapped and the only thing that calms him down is smoking and drinking.
One of the only reasons that Tom stays is because of Laura. Toms stays because he knows that Laura would have nothing if he left because she is so afraid to do anything accept play with her glass menagerie. She does not have any life skills to use and Amanda allows her to not do anything. However, by the end of the book, Tom is so fed up with how Amanda treats him, that he leaves anyway.
In my performance we acted out a combination of the first scene and the argument between Tom and Amanda when he goes to the movies. We also included some of the beginning of Toms monologue. In the monologue I was talking very slowly and very sad. The monologue was to show that Tom is all on his own in the world. In the monologue, I felt like Tom was upset with himself because he left, but then he remembers all that had happened to him when he was living with Amanda and he then remembers why he did leave. In our performance, Tom entered into the scene from the bridge. We did this because we wanted to show Tom entering into his own memories. After the first scene that we performed, Tom exited out of the scene through the bridge.
There were two monologues that we did in our performance. The first one was for Tom and the second one was for Laura. We did this because Laura did not have very many lines but also because we wanted to show the audience what Laura thinks about when Tom and Amanda are fighting. Tom and Amanda froze and the spotlight was on Laura and she started to talk about her glass animals. This is important for Laura because she always keeps her feelings to herself and does not like to talk to other people at all. When Tom and Amanda are fighting, this is what Laura thinks about because she cannot deal with all of the arguing.
Our second part of the performance was the climax of what we performed. It was the breaking point for Tom. This was our way of showing that Tom left them for good. In the beginning of this scene, Tom is minding his own business and writing. Laura tells Amanda that Tom is trying to write and so instead of leaving him alone, Amanda starts to bother him by telling him to turn the lights on and to sit up. She does not understand that Tom wants to be on his own and he gets very angry very quickly. Amanda treats Tom like he is a child even though he pays for the house and he does everything for both Amanda and Laura. She does not own a single thing in the house yet she refers to the house as her own and Tom raises a valid point when he asks her "who pays the rent on the house?"
There are a few other aspects that can be included about the performance such as the staging that was planned, the lighting and the music that was played. On outer stage their was a bridge in the background because that was how Tom would enter and exit his memories. This is something that the audience might not have picked up on but that was the reason why I exited out of he first scene on the bridge. The lighting was used often in the performance. We sometimes had spotlights on certain characters at certain moments in the performance, and other times we had lights all over the stage. This was done so that the audience was forced to focus on certain things that we wanted them to focus on. Finally, the music that we played was a key part in the performance. The times that we played the music was in the beginning monologue with Tom, and the end of our performance. The music served as a dramatic extra to the scene. What I mean is that the music helped to make the scene even more dramatic along with the lighting.
When I was on the stage, I realized the complete frustration that Tom felt. Sometimes, when reading a book, you empathize, you hate or love a character that you are visualizing. As I was reading the book, I empathized with Tom. He was a 22 year old man who had hopes and dreams of a bright future in becoming a writer, and instead he is working in a warehouse and is being forced to take care of his mother and sister. Not only that, but his mother continuously badgers him about every little thing that he does. Tom goes through a transformation in this book. There is one common theme though throughout the book and that theme is the fact that Tom is constantly angry all the time. There is never really a moment in the book where he is happy with his life. Everything he does is done with a "bad attitude." He fully admits that he hates the way his life is going and that he wishes sometimes that he were dead. He expresses this in our second half of our performance. For some reason, Amanda thinks that she is in charge of the house and that she own everything, when in reality, Tom is the one paying for everything and working everyday to put food on the table. He is jealous of his father because he feels stuck in the situation but at the same time knows that he can let go at any point.
This house is very dysfunctional and Tom gets so sick of the same thing every day that he leaves at the end of the book and does not care what happens to Laura or Amanda. Tom had enough of the same day over and over again. Amanda drives him so mad that he does not care what happens to anyone accept himself. His conscious was wiped away by the annoyance of Amanda and the daily life of mediocrity that he was being forced to live. At the new of this whole process I definitely take Toms side of the argument because I was able to simulate the experience of this characters life. He was driven to the edge of his patience and then decided to jump off the cliff of his sanity and acted in an insane but understandable way.
The Glass Menagerie is a play that is about a very poor dysfunctional family that lives in St. Louis. The three characters are Amanda who is the mother, Tom who is the son and Laura who is the daughter. They all live together and Tom is the one who works to pay the bills for the family. Tom is 22 years old and is works in a shoe factory. He has dreams of being a writer but is stopped by his mother Amanda. In our performance project, we performed the first dinner scene mixed with one of the arguments between Amanda and Tom. We included costumes, music, lighting and props in our performance. I feel like it was an okay performance because sometimes we were off on the lines and stage directions. I believe that our group worked fairly well together, however, there were numerous times where the lines were changed so that definitely effected the way that I performed and even the rest of my group members.
Tom is a very angry person. One moment he is quiet and minding his own business and then the next moment he is yelling. This is for good reason though because Amanda is always telling him what to do. For instance, in the scene we performed, Tom had just arrived at home from his job and sat down and started eating. Amanda notices and starts to tell Tom how to eat his food in great detail. This always makes Tom mad enough to where he has to leave the room and get a cigarette. His feeling towards Amanda is very negative. Because she constantly disturbs him, Tom has an extreme motivation to leave the house and let Amanda and Laura live on their own which is nods up happening at the end of the book. When I was playing Toms character I felt the anger he was feeling in the book. Playing his role really helped me to understand how angry he was because I needed to understand when to raise my voice. Tom feels trapped and the only thing that calms him down is smoking and drinking.
One of the only reasons that Tom stays is because of Laura. Toms stays because he knows that Laura would have nothing if he left because she is so afraid to do anything accept play with her glass menagerie. She does not have any life skills to use and Amanda allows her to not do anything. However, by the end of the book, Tom is so fed up with how Amanda treats him, that he leaves anyway.
In my performance we acted out a combination of the first scene and the argument between Tom and Amanda when he goes to the movies. We also included some of the beginning of Toms monologue. In the monologue I was talking very slowly and very sad. The monologue was to show that Tom is all on his own in the world. In the monologue, I felt like Tom was upset with himself because he left, but then he remembers all that had happened to him when he was living with Amanda and he then remembers why he did leave. In our performance, Tom entered into the scene from the bridge. We did this because we wanted to show Tom entering into his own memories. After the first scene that we performed, Tom exited out of the scene through the bridge.
There were two monologues that we did in our performance. The first one was for Tom and the second one was for Laura. We did this because Laura did not have very many lines but also because we wanted to show the audience what Laura thinks about when Tom and Amanda are fighting. Tom and Amanda froze and the spotlight was on Laura and she started to talk about her glass animals. This is important for Laura because she always keeps her feelings to herself and does not like to talk to other people at all. When Tom and Amanda are fighting, this is what Laura thinks about because she cannot deal with all of the arguing.
Our second part of the performance was the climax of what we performed. It was the breaking point for Tom. This was our way of showing that Tom left them for good. In the beginning of this scene, Tom is minding his own business and writing. Laura tells Amanda that Tom is trying to write and so instead of leaving him alone, Amanda starts to bother him by telling him to turn the lights on and to sit up. She does not understand that Tom wants to be on his own and he gets very angry very quickly. Amanda treats Tom like he is a child even though he pays for the house and he does everything for both Amanda and Laura. She does not own a single thing in the house yet she refers to the house as her own and Tom raises a valid point when he asks her "who pays the rent on the house?"
There are a few other aspects that can be included about the performance such as the staging that was planned, the lighting and the music that was played. On outer stage their was a bridge in the background because that was how Tom would enter and exit his memories. This is something that the audience might not have picked up on but that was the reason why I exited out of he first scene on the bridge. The lighting was used often in the performance. We sometimes had spotlights on certain characters at certain moments in the performance, and other times we had lights all over the stage. This was done so that the audience was forced to focus on certain things that we wanted them to focus on. Finally, the music that we played was a key part in the performance. The times that we played the music was in the beginning monologue with Tom, and the end of our performance. The music served as a dramatic extra to the scene. What I mean is that the music helped to make the scene even more dramatic along with the lighting.
When I was on the stage, I realized the complete frustration that Tom felt. Sometimes, when reading a book, you empathize, you hate or love a character that you are visualizing. As I was reading the book, I empathized with Tom. He was a 22 year old man who had hopes and dreams of a bright future in becoming a writer, and instead he is working in a warehouse and is being forced to take care of his mother and sister. Not only that, but his mother continuously badgers him about every little thing that he does. Tom goes through a transformation in this book. There is one common theme though throughout the book and that theme is the fact that Tom is constantly angry all the time. There is never really a moment in the book where he is happy with his life. Everything he does is done with a "bad attitude." He fully admits that he hates the way his life is going and that he wishes sometimes that he were dead. He expresses this in our second half of our performance. For some reason, Amanda thinks that she is in charge of the house and that she own everything, when in reality, Tom is the one paying for everything and working everyday to put food on the table. He is jealous of his father because he feels stuck in the situation but at the same time knows that he can let go at any point.
This house is very dysfunctional and Tom gets so sick of the same thing every day that he leaves at the end of the book and does not care what happens to Laura or Amanda. Tom had enough of the same day over and over again. Amanda drives him so mad that he does not care what happens to anyone accept himself. His conscious was wiped away by the annoyance of Amanda and the daily life of mediocrity that he was being forced to live. At the new of this whole process I definitely take Toms side of the argument because I was able to simulate the experience of this characters life. He was driven to the edge of his patience and then decided to jump off the cliff of his sanity and acted in an insane but understandable way.
In Class Writing Assignment
Julia Rafferty Paper:
Literature: 5
When I was reading the paper I could tell that the author fully understood the book of Romeo and Juliet. She analyzed Romeo's character very well. She went into full detail about everything she interpreted about the character while reading a performing.
Performance: 9
When I was reading the paper I felt like there was more literature than performance because she was going very deep about the character of Romeo. It just felt like there was more about the character and less about her actual performance. However, when the author explained her performance it was well described and I could imagine what it would look like on stage.
Language: 5
This paper had a very good use of language. Not only was there good language but it was always consistent throughout the paper.
Samantha Weed Paper:
Literature: 5
When I was reading the paper I knew that the author had a good grasp of the book. She was able to describe the transformation of Juliet very well.
Performance: 10
The performance was described very well no she wwas able to describe the transformation of Juliet throughout the paper.
Language: 5
There was a lot of strong language present in the paper.
Literature: 5
When I was reading the paper I knew that the author had a good grasp of the book. She was able to describe the transformation of Juliet very well.
Performance: 10
The performance was described very well no she wwas able to describe the transformation of Juliet throughout the paper.
Language: 5
There was a lot of strong language present in the paper.
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Second Draft
The Glass Menagerie is a play that is about a very poor disfunctional family that lives in St. Louis. The three characters are Amanda who is the mother, Tom who is the son and Laura who is the daughter. They all live together and Tom is the one who works to pay the bills for the family. Tom is 22 years old and is works in a shoe factory. He has dreams of being a writer but is stopped by his mother Amanda.
Tom is a very angry person. One moment he is quiet and minding his own business and then the next moment he is yelling. This is for good reason though because Amanda is always telling him what to do. For instance, in the scene we performed, Tom had just arrived at home from his job and sat down and started eating. Amanda notices and starts to tell Tom how to eat his food in great detail. This always makes Tom mad enough to where he has to leave the room and get a cigarette. His feeling towards Amanda is very negative. Because she constantly disturbes him, Tom has an extreme motivation to leave the house and let Amanda and Laura live on their own which is nods up happening at the end of the book. When I was playing Toms character I felt the anger he was feeling in the book. Playing his role really helped me to understand how angry he was because I needed to understand when to raise my voice. Tom feels trapped and the only thing that calms him down is smoking and drinking.
One of the only reasons that Tom stays is because of Laura. Toms stays because he knows that Laura would have nothing if he left because she is so afraid to do anything accept play with her glass menagerie. She does not have any life skills to use and Amanda allows her to not do anything. However, by the end of the book, Tom is so fed up with how Amanda treats him, that he leaves anyway.
In my performance we acted out a combination of the first scene and the arguement between Tom and Amanda when he goes to the movies. We also included some of the beggining of Toms monologue. In the monologue I was talking very slowly and very sad. The monologue was to show that Tom is all on his own in the world. In the monologue, I felt like Tom was upset with himself because he left, but then he remembers all that had happened to him when he was living with Amanda and he then remembers why he did leave. In our performance, Tom entered into the scene from the bridge. We did this because we wanted to show Tom entering into his own memories. After the first scene that we performed, Tom exited out of the scene through the bridge.
There were two monologues that we did in our performamce. The first one was for Tom and the second one was for Laura. We did this because Laura did not have very many lines but also because we wanted to show the audience what Laura thinks about when Tom and Amanda are fighting. Tom and Amanda froze and the spotlight was on Laura and she started to talk about her glass animals. This is important for Laura because she always keeps her feelings to herself and does not like to talk to other people at all. When Tom and Amanda are fighting, this is what Laura thinks about because she cannot deal with all of the arguing.
Our second part of the performance was the climax of what we performed. It was the breaking point for Tom. This was our way of showing that Tom left them for good. In the beginning of this scene, Tom is minding his own business and writing. Laura tells Amanda that Tom is trying to write and so instead of leaving him alone, Amanda starts to bother him by telling him to turn the lights on and to sit up. She does not understand that Tom wants to be on his own and he gets very angry very quickly. Amanda treats Tom like he is a child even though he pays for the house and he does everything for both Amanda and Laura. She does not own a single thing in the house yet she refers to the house as her own and Tom raises a valid point when he asks her "who pays the rent on the house?"
There are a few other aspects that can be included about the performance such as the staging that was planned, the lighting and the music that was played. On outer stage their was a bridge in the background because that was how Tom would enter and exit his memories. This is something that the audience might not have picked up on but that was the reason why I exited out of he first scene on the bridge. The lighting was used often in the performance. We sometimes had spotlights on certain characters at certain moments in the performance, and other times we had lights all over the stage. This was done so that the audience was forced to focus on certain things that we wanted them to focus on. Finally, the music that we played was a key part in the performance. The times that we played the music was in the beginning monologue with Tom, and the end of our performance. The music served as a dramatic extra to the scene. What I mean is that the music helped to make the scene even more dramatic along with the lighting.
This house is very dysfunctional and Tom gets so sick of the same thing every day that he leaves at the end of the book and does not care what happens to Laura or Amanda.
Tom is a very angry person. One moment he is quiet and minding his own business and then the next moment he is yelling. This is for good reason though because Amanda is always telling him what to do. For instance, in the scene we performed, Tom had just arrived at home from his job and sat down and started eating. Amanda notices and starts to tell Tom how to eat his food in great detail. This always makes Tom mad enough to where he has to leave the room and get a cigarette. His feeling towards Amanda is very negative. Because she constantly disturbes him, Tom has an extreme motivation to leave the house and let Amanda and Laura live on their own which is nods up happening at the end of the book. When I was playing Toms character I felt the anger he was feeling in the book. Playing his role really helped me to understand how angry he was because I needed to understand when to raise my voice. Tom feels trapped and the only thing that calms him down is smoking and drinking.
One of the only reasons that Tom stays is because of Laura. Toms stays because he knows that Laura would have nothing if he left because she is so afraid to do anything accept play with her glass menagerie. She does not have any life skills to use and Amanda allows her to not do anything. However, by the end of the book, Tom is so fed up with how Amanda treats him, that he leaves anyway.
In my performance we acted out a combination of the first scene and the arguement between Tom and Amanda when he goes to the movies. We also included some of the beggining of Toms monologue. In the monologue I was talking very slowly and very sad. The monologue was to show that Tom is all on his own in the world. In the monologue, I felt like Tom was upset with himself because he left, but then he remembers all that had happened to him when he was living with Amanda and he then remembers why he did leave. In our performance, Tom entered into the scene from the bridge. We did this because we wanted to show Tom entering into his own memories. After the first scene that we performed, Tom exited out of the scene through the bridge.
There were two monologues that we did in our performamce. The first one was for Tom and the second one was for Laura. We did this because Laura did not have very many lines but also because we wanted to show the audience what Laura thinks about when Tom and Amanda are fighting. Tom and Amanda froze and the spotlight was on Laura and she started to talk about her glass animals. This is important for Laura because she always keeps her feelings to herself and does not like to talk to other people at all. When Tom and Amanda are fighting, this is what Laura thinks about because she cannot deal with all of the arguing.
Our second part of the performance was the climax of what we performed. It was the breaking point for Tom. This was our way of showing that Tom left them for good. In the beginning of this scene, Tom is minding his own business and writing. Laura tells Amanda that Tom is trying to write and so instead of leaving him alone, Amanda starts to bother him by telling him to turn the lights on and to sit up. She does not understand that Tom wants to be on his own and he gets very angry very quickly. Amanda treats Tom like he is a child even though he pays for the house and he does everything for both Amanda and Laura. She does not own a single thing in the house yet she refers to the house as her own and Tom raises a valid point when he asks her "who pays the rent on the house?"
There are a few other aspects that can be included about the performance such as the staging that was planned, the lighting and the music that was played. On outer stage their was a bridge in the background because that was how Tom would enter and exit his memories. This is something that the audience might not have picked up on but that was the reason why I exited out of he first scene on the bridge. The lighting was used often in the performance. We sometimes had spotlights on certain characters at certain moments in the performance, and other times we had lights all over the stage. This was done so that the audience was forced to focus on certain things that we wanted them to focus on. Finally, the music that we played was a key part in the performance. The times that we played the music was in the beginning monologue with Tom, and the end of our performance. The music served as a dramatic extra to the scene. What I mean is that the music helped to make the scene even more dramatic along with the lighting.
This house is very dysfunctional and Tom gets so sick of the same thing every day that he leaves at the end of the book and does not care what happens to Laura or Amanda.
Self Evaluation
Right now for my Liturature Analysis would be at a 3. I think this because my essay is not well organized right now and I need to group that all together.
For my Performance part of the essay I would give myself a 4-5. This is because I wrote about the Performamce but I don't think that I went deep enough yet and it is very hard to follow what I am saying.
I would give myself a 1 on the language because my essay is very hard to follow and not organized very well. I need to group together the lit analysis together and the performance together and try not to repeat the same thing throughout the essay.
For my Performance part of the essay I would give myself a 4-5. This is because I wrote about the Performamce but I don't think that I went deep enough yet and it is very hard to follow what I am saying.
I would give myself a 1 on the language because my essay is very hard to follow and not organized very well. I need to group together the lit analysis together and the performance together and try not to repeat the same thing throughout the essay.
Sunday, March 4, 2018
Play Review
The play that I viewed was called Les Miserables. I saw the play on the 24th in the black box theatre. I really enjoyed the play and noticed a lot of the themes presented by the actors. I enjoyed the music and the singing and I felt like the main characters did an excellent job with their parts.
The plot of this play starts out with the main character named Jean Valjean. He is in a prison camp and is basically a slave. What happened is he is able to go on paroll. When he went to the city he ended up staying a a priest house. He stole some of the silver and was caught by a briars and was going to send him back to the prison camp, but the priest lies for him so that he can be free. The priest instructs Jean Valjean to use the silver to help him start his life again. The next scene we fast forward about 10 years and the scene is about a woman named Fantine. She is a single mother with a child who is sick named Cossette. She struggles to pay the bills and gets fired. Later, she is close to dying and she asks Jean Valjean to take care to Cossette. Meanwhile, he has turned himself in to Javert who has been hunting him for the last ten years. Valjean is the mayor of the town and everyone likes him. He takes care of Cossette and gives her to a family who treats her very poorly. Years after that he finds Cossette and takes her away from the family who he gave her to. Cossette goes and lives with Valjean and they go back on the run from Javert. Later in the play Javert is still hunting Valjean. He is determined to find him and take him back to prison. Cossette is now older and Valjean is getting older and tired. They want to stop running away and Cossette falls in love with Marious who is apart of this revolution against the government. Valjean helps the revolution while Javert tries to betray them. They want to kill him and Valjean asks that he is allowed to deal with Javert. He had the opportunity to kill Javert but instead lets him free. Javert wonders why he does this. Later Valjean finds out about Cossette being in love with Marious. He prays to God that Marious is kept safe during the fight. As the battle begins, Marious is shot and Valjean takes him a way from the fight and saves his life. Along the way he comes across Javert. He wants to arrest Valjean but somehow he lets him go because Marious was dying at the time. At this point, Javert has a reality check with himself and realizes that Valjean is not a bad person but that he is like a saint. Javert feels so upset that he kills himself. Later in the play Valjean wants to leave Cossette and let her live her life happily with Marious and he wants to tell her the truth about how he went to prison and his whole life story. So he writes it down on paper and gives it to Cossette so that she knows the truth about Valjean. Cossette and Marious get married and they return to see Valjean. At this point Valjean is ready to leave and he dies shortly after he gives Cossette the story. This is how the play ends.
One of the themes that I felt was present all the time was that people make mistakes but that is not what defines them. Valjean shows this them throughout the play. In the beggining of the play we see a criminal and by the end we see an honestly all around great person. Valjean made a mistake early in his life and he learned that it was wrong. So what he did was he picked himself up and changed his personality and his values and became a great person.
My favorite actor in the play was the person who played Jean Valjean. She did a great job of shows emotion and I could tell that she knew her part very well. I thought she was the best actor in the show.
She was able to show all of the emotions that I imagined in my head. In the last scene was Valjean dies it was so dramatic and very serious and I was in the moment the entire time because of the music and the acting skills. The only thing that kept this from me thinking that it was real life was that it was singing instead of regular talking. Otherwise I could have thought that this actually happened.
Overall I really enjoyed the play and I would definately see it again. The actors did a great job and the stage crew, the director and the musicians. This was one of the best plays I have ever seen.
The plot of this play starts out with the main character named Jean Valjean. He is in a prison camp and is basically a slave. What happened is he is able to go on paroll. When he went to the city he ended up staying a a priest house. He stole some of the silver and was caught by a briars and was going to send him back to the prison camp, but the priest lies for him so that he can be free. The priest instructs Jean Valjean to use the silver to help him start his life again. The next scene we fast forward about 10 years and the scene is about a woman named Fantine. She is a single mother with a child who is sick named Cossette. She struggles to pay the bills and gets fired. Later, she is close to dying and she asks Jean Valjean to take care to Cossette. Meanwhile, he has turned himself in to Javert who has been hunting him for the last ten years. Valjean is the mayor of the town and everyone likes him. He takes care of Cossette and gives her to a family who treats her very poorly. Years after that he finds Cossette and takes her away from the family who he gave her to. Cossette goes and lives with Valjean and they go back on the run from Javert. Later in the play Javert is still hunting Valjean. He is determined to find him and take him back to prison. Cossette is now older and Valjean is getting older and tired. They want to stop running away and Cossette falls in love with Marious who is apart of this revolution against the government. Valjean helps the revolution while Javert tries to betray them. They want to kill him and Valjean asks that he is allowed to deal with Javert. He had the opportunity to kill Javert but instead lets him free. Javert wonders why he does this. Later Valjean finds out about Cossette being in love with Marious. He prays to God that Marious is kept safe during the fight. As the battle begins, Marious is shot and Valjean takes him a way from the fight and saves his life. Along the way he comes across Javert. He wants to arrest Valjean but somehow he lets him go because Marious was dying at the time. At this point, Javert has a reality check with himself and realizes that Valjean is not a bad person but that he is like a saint. Javert feels so upset that he kills himself. Later in the play Valjean wants to leave Cossette and let her live her life happily with Marious and he wants to tell her the truth about how he went to prison and his whole life story. So he writes it down on paper and gives it to Cossette so that she knows the truth about Valjean. Cossette and Marious get married and they return to see Valjean. At this point Valjean is ready to leave and he dies shortly after he gives Cossette the story. This is how the play ends.
One of the themes that I felt was present all the time was that people make mistakes but that is not what defines them. Valjean shows this them throughout the play. In the beggining of the play we see a criminal and by the end we see an honestly all around great person. Valjean made a mistake early in his life and he learned that it was wrong. So what he did was he picked himself up and changed his personality and his values and became a great person.
My favorite actor in the play was the person who played Jean Valjean. She did a great job of shows emotion and I could tell that she knew her part very well. I thought she was the best actor in the show.
She was able to show all of the emotions that I imagined in my head. In the last scene was Valjean dies it was so dramatic and very serious and I was in the moment the entire time because of the music and the acting skills. The only thing that kept this from me thinking that it was real life was that it was singing instead of regular talking. Otherwise I could have thought that this actually happened.
Overall I really enjoyed the play and I would definately see it again. The actors did a great job and the stage crew, the director and the musicians. This was one of the best plays I have ever seen.
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