Draft Revision

I feel like our draft is missing emotion. We need to act more like the scene is our reality. I think that our performance is not natural enough to be believable. In order for this to happen we must all know our lines very well and work on our reactions and emotion when certain things happen on the stage. Also, our stage setup must look like we live in Haiti. We need a curtain and we need blankets to lay on the floor. The reason why we need these things is because Lili does not have enough money to own a bed and they do not like in a house with different rooms, so the curtain is what separates Lili and Little Guy. The curtain is very important because it allows for Lili to work as a night women to protect her son from the truth. In the performance when Lili tells Little Guy that she is a night women, I have to be shocked at that. I also need to talk angrily to the angel and Guy when I tell them that I know that Lili is a night women. I have to act like I really want to work at the sugar mill because I really do not like the fact that my mother is a night women. Also, when I read my monologue at the end after Lili dies, I must say it in a slow mourning way because I know that she is dead This is important because this performance needs to be sold as it actually happening. It has to look like it is real life and each person in the group must become their character. Another thing that will help this performance is the lighting because it will help to set the atmosphere of what is happening.

Scene Analysis

Blog post due on how to best perform your scene to highlight the specific literary elements and analysis you have identified -- 300 words

In our performance, we want to show how important it is to Lili that her son Little Guy goes to school instead of work at the sugar mill. Throughout the performance, Little Guy is struggling to decide on what he wants to do with his life. He likes going to school, but he also wants to be like his father and go amd work at the sugar mill. It takes a long time for him to finally make the right descision to go to school onstead of work. The reason why this is so important, and is the main conflict is because Lili has become a night women to make money so that someday Little Guy would be able to go to school and be something more than his father. In our performance we can show this idea through arguement between Lili and Little Guy about whether he is going to work at the sugar mill or go to school. In our performance at first Guy will suggest that Little Guy should work but by the end of our performance he changes his mind and tells little guy to go to school because Lili has sacrificed so much. Also, Lili lives her life because of Little Guy. Her whole bieng is to make sure that Little Giy goes to college and has a strong future. Once he does those things, she has nothing left that she wants to accomplish or do in her life. Because of this, we decided to have Lili commit suicide at the end of our performance. This is very important because it means that Little Guy id safe and that Lili is now back with her husband. We also want to show how Guy realizes the mistakes that he has made through conversations with Lili and the angel that is with him. We want to show that Guy goes through a transformation over the course of our performance.

Uta Hagen 9 Question

1.) Who am I?
I am Little Guy
2.) What time is it?
It is night time in Haiti
3.) Where am I?
I am living in Haiti with my mother and we are very poor.
4.) What surrounds me?
The sugar mill is near by and the school that I go to.
5.) What are the given circumstances?
My father killed himself, I go to school because my mother wants me too, and our family is very poor.
6.) What is my relationship?
I love my mother and father very much but I do not understand them very well.
7.) What do I want?
I want to make money to help the family but I also want to go to school.
8.) What is in my way?
My mother does not want me to work at the sugar mill and I am in the way because I want to go to school and make money.
9.) What do I do to get what I want?
I have to make a descision on how I want my life to go and then if I want to work at the sugar mill, then I will have to convince my mother to let me or I will go to school like she wants me to.

IA proposal

My idea for the IA project is an adaptation of Caroline's wedding. This adaptation requires 3 people to perform. The characters are Grace, Caroline and Eric.

The performance begins with the fact that Grace and Caroline's mother is dead. Grace has adopted the Haitian tradition s that their mother lived by. The conflict is between Grace and Caroline because Grace wants Eric to ask her permission to marry Caroline since she is the oldest sibling. Eric will try to satisfy Grace's desires to have a traditional Haitian wedding, but it is not good enough. So Caroline and Eric will try to run off and Grace will try to prevent it from happenong because she does not want them to get married.

The focus will be on the importance of tradition and heritage. It will also focus on the relationship between family and outsiders. The setting is in New York because that is where Grace and Caroline live in the book story.

It will be interesting because it is somewhat similar to the book but different because Eric will be aware of the fact that Grace does not like him and that she wants a traditional marriage. This performance is like what would happen after the story in the real book ended.

Fall Play Review

I was very impressed with the performances in the fall play. The actors did a great job of memorizing their lines and an even better job of improvising if they forgot their lines or somebody else forgot their lines or went out of order. I really liked the props that were used. The backgrounds and the benches and the chairs really worked in explaining where the scene was taking place. I could easily tell that the city scenes were inside of a house and the country scenes were outside. I liked that the actors were able to exit and enter the scene in different ways. One of the ways was from the door that was closest to the stage. The other was down the middle all the way to the back. I really liked this way because it is different from actors just turning left or right to exit. I felt like there was the right amount of music. I liked that it was only between scenes and not during the acting. The lighting was appropriate for the scenes inside and outside. When the actors were performing in the city house, the lights were dimmer and I could easily tell that they were outside because they were very bright. The actors did a great job of keeping their composure on stage. They did not laugh at all when the audience would laugh and they did not break character at any point. I also liked that they could enter from behind the audience. It made me feel like I was right in the middle of the performance and not looking in from the outside. I really enjoyed this play and it was filled with important themes such as honesty. This was a very enjoyable play to watch.

25 Things

Wall of Fire Rising

1.) Fire
2.) Relationship between Father and Son
3.) Relationship between Mother and Son
4.) Sadness
5.) Depressing
6.) Hot air balloon
7.) Sugar Mill
8.) Guy
9.) Little Guy
10.) Lili
11.) Boukman
12.) The List
13.) School
14.) Suicide
15.) Freedom
16.) Consequences
17.) Passion
18.) Love
19.) Dissagreement
20.) Dissapointment
21.) Money
22.) Hierarchy
23.) Anger
24.) Obsession
25.) Short sighted

Answer 2 Discussion Questions

Grace
4.  Some people suggest they should follow the tradition, but some people suggest they should walk their own way.  Which side do you support?

I think that it is important to do both. I think that it is important to remember where you came from and never forget the traditions that your family taught you as a child and to spread them on to your children. But I also think that if you let your family's tradition consume your whole life, then you are limited in the things that you can achieve.  One of the biggest examples in the book where tradition is important is Caroline's wedding. Haitian tradition is very important to the mother. Her whole life is surrounded by the traditions that she has learned. The reason why she has conflict with Caroline is because she thinks that Caroline is to modern because she has grown up in America. Their mother continues to make bone soup and saves all sorts of things from Haiti that she had suck as the hanker chief that was given to her when her husband had asked her to marry him. She believes that Caroline should have a Haitian marriage because she wants to keep those traditions alive. " Ma wanted Eric to officially come and ask her permission to marry her daughter. She wanted him to bring his family to our house and have his father ask her blessing. She wanted Eric to kiss up to her, escort her around, buy her gifts, and shower her with compliments. Ma wanted a full-blown church wedding. She wanted Eric to be Haitian." This shows how difficult and stubborn Caroline's mother was about the traditions that she upholds. Caroline is very modern and she just wants her mother to stop bothering her with the Haitian traditions. She does not understand, but Grace does understand because she was born in Haiti and she has lived in the US. She is trying to figure out her life. Caroline shows that she is modern because she insults the bone soup that her mother makes all the time. She says that she is going to burn her face in it to prove to her mother that there is no magic in the soup. There is plenty on conflicts between Caroline and her mother about if she should carry on the traditions of Haiti or go their own way in life.


2. Why does the author name some of the characters and unnamed some of the characters?

I think the author is trying to show that there are people in the world that we do not know about that are living in poverty or they are dying because of their government or their living situation. We do not know their names because we have never tried to know them. I think the author is trying to say that people who are privileged should be aware of what is happening in other places and should try to help the people who are constantly struggling. In Children of the Sea we do not know the names of the male or female narrators. They were separated because the male was apart of a group against the government and he has to leave on a boat to America. On the boat, the male narrator meets an old man. The boy asks his name. "'It is Justin Moise Andre Nozius Joseph Frank Osnac Maximilien." His name is so long that we as the reader do not even care about it. I think that the male narrator does not care about it either because he is on a boat to the US that might sink, and he has left his girlfriend who he loves, in Haiti. The point is that without a name, we do not have any kind of connection to people who die everyday.