Oral Presentation Rough Draft
The book is called "Krik Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat.
"Krik Krak!" mainly contains stories of Haitian women, telling how different Haitian women struggle in the miserable period of Haiti in the 20th century and it also includes the author's personal content.
In our performance, "A Wall of Fire Rising" and "Night Woman" are chosen to adapt to a play.
We have two characters from "Night Woman" and two original roles who are Devil and Angle.
Characters from "Night Woman" are Mom and Son and I played Son.
In 1940s Haiti, a single mom just started her prostitution career, since Dad left the family with an unknown reason. The mom named prostitutes as night woman , because regular jobs for women are low class, busy, and time-consuming. In the path of his son, she rather chose to hide prostitution until his son is no longer a kid.
The main conflicting point in the play is when Devil and Angle hold different views toward her current situation. In addition, that scene obviously expresses Man versus Self. Moreover, the son in the first and fourth scene also becomes another element to affect her decision in the play, while I considered that is not only a Man versus Man, since the son mentioned his missing dad multiple times without giving an accurate setting, it is also a Man versus family.
Why so many troubles happen in a family? Why the Mom hesitates so much that the whole story is related to her hesitation? Why the son looks so positive and optimistic?
1. It reflects that there are issues of gender role, poverty, and life danger to a common Haiti family. When the mom abandoned her dignity to become a prostitute, it is Man v.s Society. It seems like an unusual choice for a wife in developed countries. It is the society that forces her to become a prostitute. Choosing to be a prostitute merely assures basic rights of a single mom, which is living mostly with her son and supports him in her best.
2. When we made a play, we expected to adapt and to transfer those lines and letters from the book to real scenes. Furthermore, a short chapter in a book is responsible for telling the story. How does prostitution affect Mom is depending on how much time does a reader spend on this chapter, so we focused on mom's hesitation to extend the play with two creative roles.
3. Even though I contributed mostly to this character after I joined this group, but the idea comes from my groupmate. When I think about this character, I feel both sad and inspired from the original context. In the aspect of gender role, the man in Haiti always has rights to think, to dream, and to do. The son brings information from school which suspected the reality of angles' story, while the main theme is a woman's history of blood and tears. I wish the son could be a daughter so I improve the son's positivity in many aspects. Reading a poem and having a performance to the people expresses the environment he lives and his grand wishes to the future. In scene four when he has a dialogue with his mom, I deliberately change the role between mom and son so the mom looks more like a son and the son looks more like a mom. When the son becomes more like an adult, audiences may feel that the son, and a Haitian is so reliable. In fact, in my opinion, the growing and performance of the son give the key to the mom's conflict. In the final analysis, the mom worries about his son's childhood life, and it is shown by her lines with Devil and Angel. If the son is not naive anymore, the solution instantly comes out with a passionate speaking in the end.
Our stage is not very big, but there is no scene changing through the whole play. On the stage right, we have a table and it becomes the main spot where Devil, Angel, and Mom start a war. On the stage center and left, there are two beds and a bench. Beds are close to each other showing that the boy is still young yet they live in a small house. The son shows on only in scene 1 and 4. When the other three characters are playing, the son is close to them, making a sense of reality. We set a bench in front of everything to audiences and that is the spot where Mom begins talking with the son.
My role, the son, dresses oversize; on the one hand, I wanted to reflect their poverty to audiences. On the other hand, the son is wearing his dad's shirt, showing his love to his dad.
When the son reads, he should read with passion. When he talks to mom, his confidence and eagerness should be prior to his loving care. To be an independent boy, I tried to speak out loud. I added some gestures such as making a fist to show his passion for their lives. When he persuades his mom, his tone is perplexed and he is eager to convince his mom. When I had the monologue in scene one, I looked down when I talked about my dad and I covered my face with sadness.
In my first paragraph which is a cut of a poem from "A wall of fire rising".
"Krik Krak!" mainly contains stories of Haitian women, telling how different Haitian women struggle in the miserable period of Haiti in the 20th century and it also includes the author's personal content.
In our performance, "A Wall of Fire Rising" and "Night Woman" are chosen to adapt to a play.
We have two characters from "Night Woman" and two original roles who are Devil and Angle.
Characters from "Night Woman" are Mom and Son and I played Son.
In 1940s Haiti, a single mom just started her prostitution career, since Dad left the family with an unknown reason. The mom named prostitutes as night woman , because regular jobs for women are low class, busy, and time-consuming. In the path of his son, she rather chose to hide prostitution until his son is no longer a kid.
The main conflicting point in the play is when Devil and Angle hold different views toward her current situation. In addition, that scene obviously expresses Man versus Self. Moreover, the son in the first and fourth scene also becomes another element to affect her decision in the play, while I considered that is not only a Man versus Man, since the son mentioned his missing dad multiple times without giving an accurate setting, it is also a Man versus family.
Why so many troubles happen in a family? Why the Mom hesitates so much that the whole story is related to her hesitation? Why the son looks so positive and optimistic?
1. It reflects that there are issues of gender role, poverty, and life danger to a common Haiti family. When the mom abandoned her dignity to become a prostitute, it is Man v.s Society. It seems like an unusual choice for a wife in developed countries. It is the society that forces her to become a prostitute. Choosing to be a prostitute merely assures basic rights of a single mom, which is living mostly with her son and supports him in her best.
2. When we made a play, we expected to adapt and to transfer those lines and letters from the book to real scenes. Furthermore, a short chapter in a book is responsible for telling the story. How does prostitution affect Mom is depending on how much time does a reader spend on this chapter, so we focused on mom's hesitation to extend the play with two creative roles.
3. Even though I contributed mostly to this character after I joined this group, but the idea comes from my groupmate. When I think about this character, I feel both sad and inspired from the original context. In the aspect of gender role, the man in Haiti always has rights to think, to dream, and to do. The son brings information from school which suspected the reality of angles' story, while the main theme is a woman's history of blood and tears. I wish the son could be a daughter so I improve the son's positivity in many aspects. Reading a poem and having a performance to the people expresses the environment he lives and his grand wishes to the future. In scene four when he has a dialogue with his mom, I deliberately change the role between mom and son so the mom looks more like a son and the son looks more like a mom. When the son becomes more like an adult, audiences may feel that the son, and a Haitian is so reliable. In fact, in my opinion, the growing and performance of the son give the key to the mom's conflict. In the final analysis, the mom worries about his son's childhood life, and it is shown by her lines with Devil and Angel. If the son is not naive anymore, the solution instantly comes out with a passionate speaking in the end.
Our stage is not very big, but there is no scene changing through the whole play. On the stage right, we have a table and it becomes the main spot where Devil, Angel, and Mom start a war. On the stage center and left, there are two beds and a bench. Beds are close to each other showing that the boy is still young yet they live in a small house. The son shows on only in scene 1 and 4. When the other three characters are playing, the son is close to them, making a sense of reality. We set a bench in front of everything to audiences and that is the spot where Mom begins talking with the son.
My role, the son, dresses oversize; on the one hand, I wanted to reflect their poverty to audiences. On the other hand, the son is wearing his dad's shirt, showing his love to his dad.
When the son reads, he should read with passion. When he talks to mom, his confidence and eagerness should be prior to his loving care. To be an independent boy, I tried to speak out loud. I added some gestures such as making a fist to show his passion for their lives. When he persuades his mom, his tone is perplexed and he is eager to convince his mom. When I had the monologue in scene one, I looked down when I talked about my dad and I covered my face with sadness.
In my first paragraph which is a cut of a poem from "A wall of fire rising".
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