Captured By Feministas, You Know How To Whistle, Don't You?, Andre's Mother. Dram

The genre for "Captured By Feministas" I think is HIGH COMEDY. Because women rights are some peoples life problems and there are issues with that subject. But it also had some comedy mixed in with rick being a player. The genre for "You Know How To Whistle, Don't You?" is TRAGICOMEDY because there were mix feelings some were kinda humorous but also it had some sad parts to it, serious lines, hurtful lines, and desperate lines as well. But the mixture of the emotions and the words used made it kinda funny to me.
I think the diction was on point. The play sorta told you how to read each part so it gave you an idea of how to get a feel for the play. The wording and different dialogue used for both plays to me was great while reading I myself felt as if I was in the play playing the parts.
The theme for "Captured By Feministas" I think was that thre are some men that treat women wrong and think they shouldn't have rights and whatnot and they should respect them and although some men say they will or do some will just always by players or dogs just like at the end of the play. The theme for "You Know how To Whistle, Don't You?" to me was that the cuban people don't have a lot of freedom and all they would like is to be free that's why the girl at the end just said I'll sleep with you for free because it wasn't because of the money all she wanted was to atleast feel and pretend that for just that moment that she wasn't a prisoner in her own country.
The protagonist for "Captured By Feministas" were the womyn that captured rick because all they wanted was for him to respect them as human beings and to stop disrespecting them and treating them like crap. And the antagonist ofcourse is rick the womanizer that all he thinks about is intercourse. The protagonist for "You Know How To Whistle, Don't You?" I think is the cuban government. Even though they really didn't have a part I think they are the antagonist because they are the reason that the poor young lady would lie with an american for one night just to feel like she isn't a prisoner and can pretend for once that she is a free woman. The protagonist being the main character the woman who just wants to be free and not be a captive.
My opinion for "Captured By Feministas" is that its a great womans rights play with some humor but also sends a message that men should treat women as equals not as a piece of ass. My opinion about "You Know How To Whistle, Don't You?" Is that the cuban government sucks. Castro needs to let the cuban people go or just die so all his tyranny can crumble because what he is doing is unfair to cubans.
I think the spectacle of "Andres Mother" is like at a funeral or outdoors and I think its a symbolic of them just saying their goodbyes to a loved one in a peaceful manner with the balloons in hand
The protagonist I think was cal because even though andres mother seemed shocked to hear those things about her son he did the right thing by letting her know what was going on with her son and his life before he died. I think the antagonist is andre reason bein because he shouldve been truthful with his mother and he didn't really know what she would think of him being gay and he let cal tell his mother what he's been wanting to since he knew he was gay.
I think that at first when she was silent when cal was telling her about her son being gay and the aids she didn't approve and was shocked with silence to hear things like that about her son. But at the end when she pulled the ballon back and kissed it and watched it rise she didn't care that he was gay she just wanted her son.
I think the them in "Andres Mother" is that you got to be true to yourself and feelings and even if its your mother you can't be living a lie for their approval. You gotta tell them how you feel not how they want you to feel.

“A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” By Ernest Hemingway

The setting of the short story to me is one of those mom and pop cafe's or diners that are well kept and cleaner than most with every light working so every spot of the cafe is lighted. Between the time of world war II and maybe in spain since they speak some spanish. The idea of a well lighted place is significant because its about the cafe and most of the short story takes place at the cafe and the older waiter says there is nothing like a well lighted place. They are nameless because in the short story he's not to worried about the names being different he wants us to see the different points of view from age differences about a well lighted place. The plot, the conflict in the story is the old man wanting to keep drinking his brandy and not wanting to leave while the young waiter wants too. The rising action is when the young waiter and old waiter are talking about why they do or do not want to close and go home. Complications are the point of view of the two waiters on closing and the reason to stay open. Climax is when the old waiter is at the bar saying that the bar is not like the well lighted cafe and its not as clean. Falling action is when he is in bed and said its just insomnia probably.
The theme to me is even though the cafe is just a cafe to the young waiter its a well lighted place to the old waiter, basically one mans trash is another mans treasure. The old man and older waiter are the same because they both enjoy the well lighted cafe, they are both alone and old also like to drink they are different because the old man has a lot of money and the older waiter still has to work at a cafe. They are both different than the young waiter because while they rather stay in the cafe and enjoy the cafe the young waiter would rather leave and be home. And they are the same because they all spend time at the cafe.
Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 in Illinois and he died on July 2, 1961. He won a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He married 1922 to Hadley Richardson after her he remarried 3 more time. Throughout his life he lived in Illinois, Paris, and after a almost life taking safari to Africa retired to Key West and Cuba and finally moved to Idaho his last few years where he committed suicide. Three facts that relate him to the story is the suicide, world war II also and uses spanish like how he was in cuba.

Everyday Use - Alice Walker

Alice Malsenior Walker was born on February 9, 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia she is an African American author and poet. Was the youngest of eight children and was starting writing when she was eight years old privately. In 1952, Walker was wounded in the right eye by a shot from a BB gun fired by her brother and when they finally brought her to a physician a week later, she was permanently blind in that eye. A disfiguring layer of scar tissue formed over it, rendering the previously outgoing child self-conscious and painfully shy. Stared at and taunted, she felt like an outcast and turned for solace to reading and to writing poetry. When she was 14, the scar tissue was removed and she became valedictorian and was voted most-popular girl, as well as queen of her senior class. She got married on March 17, 1967 in New York City to Melvyn Roseman Leventhal, a Jewish civil rights lawyer. Married on March 17, 1967 in New York City. Had one daughter and continues today to be an activist in racism, Sexism and violence. She has written over 20 poems, novels, and short stories combined.

Similarities were that maggie got burned and was shy and seemed self conscious and in real life alice got shot in the eye and was shy about her eye. Also in the story the family lived in poverty and didn't have a lot of nice things and money and neither did she
(1) Everyday use could be about the quilts, when mama said that they don't use them and she would like for maggie to use them everyday. Or it could be that everyday they used something from their heritage. I think she chose it to say that some people use things from their heritage everyday and barely even notice.
(2) Dee describes heritage as things that were made by hand and things that need to be preserved. And maggie and mama see it as things that you use and continue to make or add on to. And I think alice wants us to agree on mama's definition of heritage.
(3) It is ironic because in the beginning her mom set her as a prissy girl that wanted the finer things. And also its ironic because she wears a bright dress, and gold earrings and bracelets but is acting like the black rights type of girl with the african name yet still seems all about style and finer things. (4) If Dee was the narrator I think she would be complaining about the way she was living and the way her mom is and the way she looks. And then change it up and be talking about name change and about how the "white people bring her down".
If maggie was the narrator I think she would talk about what happen to her with the burn. How she feels about her mom and the way her sister acts and that she wishes she was her and talk more about her feelings.(5) Quilts - symbol of their elders and bits and pieces of them
Polaroid - to take pictures of what dee calls "heritage" and how they live.

Butter dish - what dee wanted to use to make like kind of an artistic heritage symbol.

The Tell Tale Heart By Edgar Allan Poe

The narrative in terms of conflict in the story is that the main character/narrator of the story is telling how the old man that he lives with concerns him and makes him crazy with his dull blue evil eye as he puts it and something about the old man and his evil eye drives the narrator to the point of almost being a psycho and a murderer. In the story either the old man or narrator could be the antagonist because of how the story is being told that the old man antagonizes the narrator with his dull blue eye and makes him go crazy but also the narrator could be the antagonist since he is the one plotting the old mans murder and finally committing this murder. But in my opinion I believe the narrator is the antagonist and the old man is the protagonist because even though the old man makes the narrator crazy with his eye I'm guessing it is not the old mans choice to have his eye that way so he isn't doing this to the narrator on purpose that's why I think that. The conflict or struggle that must be resolved is the old mans life it must be taken away to resolve the narrators conflict. The climax of this story could either be the moments before the death of the old man or could be the moments before the narrator gives himself up to the police officers. Since I believe that the antagonist is the narrator then the climax to me would be the moments before the narrator turns himself in because he was so confident that he was getting away with the crime of murder and then it turns out he goes just as crazy as when the old man was alive and reveals he killed the old man and the location of the old man. The conflict of the story is resolved when the narrator turns himself in to the police revealing he killed the old man and that the shriek wasn't really his own. So what I think is that the problem with the narrator that he thought was because of the old man wasn't really because of the old man it was just that the narrator was crazy on his own and his conflict or problem wasn't the old man but himself.