My group group and I decided on the idea of having two characters the mother and son from Nigjt woman. They will both be going over there nightly routine, however we have this take place almost 5 years later. the mother will just be finisheimg up with a  client  and the son will be going his homework. My character the son will be at the age when he realizes that the angles his mother says come at night aren't really angles. There will be a good amount of dialogue and we will be going back and forth. It's important to know that there will be a wall or something dividing us. We doing know what yet but there will be something to show the audience that there are two sides. And will be hinting at the audience that the mothers real job is a prostitue by using a lot of critical thinking and this will make people really wonder what she actually does. Also my partner will portray the mothe as a little crazy but driven to make her son have a better life.

1. Mine-I like mine because it's a interesting idea and can be very nicely made if done right
2. Jack- different ending because the son never finds out and I think that's interesting
3. Gia's #2- i like the idea and it's something other then night woman
4. James- creative way having it be in a letter
5. yichen- same as James pretty much

I really enjoyed the play Endgame, for many reasons one the acting was great and they really stepped into the roles of the characters that they needed to portray. This made it so much more interesting for the audicance to follow and also kept me toned into the play for the whole 90 minutes it really made the time fly. I would want to try and do even half the job that ham or Colv did when we try to recreate scenes from the book we read and turn it into a staged production. Another thing I liked about it was the theme overall, I love the setting having it take place after like the end of the world almost and these people are the one ones left. It's very interesting and I really liked that. The plot was weird in a way because the writer used a lot of metaphors and because of this you really needed to pay close attention because of you miss something you can't just rewind it like on tv so you really need to pay attention, which in this case it was easy to because of the great cast and the overall great written script from the author. I will try and go to more plays with my family because it's a great expericance, it's hard to use words to explain it you just need to go and see it for your self.

The scene that I want to turn into a staged play would be Night Women. I like this play a lot because of how it shows a theme of being strong and having the ability to overcome obstacles that are in your way. The main character, the mother is a Haitian women and because wasn't able to get a job as easy it would have been if she was a white man. Also there is only two characters in the play, the mother and the child. However maybe we could add another one and that would be the men that she sleeps with. And the whole play could be one night of the week and on the stage they could go through there routine. However maybe we could change it and the boy would be awake and see what happens. When doing this you would need to be very serious and mature about it because the mother is a pro statue and so you need to be very professional. I think that this is a good scene to make into a play because there are a lot of unanswered questions that the readers of this may have. Some examples of this would be does the son know the whole time, does the mother ever stop doing what she does at night. And so I would like to use that for inspiration in the play. So the play would be set up as the apartment and it would look very messy. And a way to make it seem that they are poor I would have the clothes the son wear look New because she is providing for him and I would have the mother just look run down and tired. I want her to look like this because she works all day then does what she does when the night time comes. Another play that I would be interested in to do would be 1937 this one I think could be very interesting to turn into a play and really bring out the mystery that surrounds witchcraft and instead of having it take place in prison maybe we could change it into something I don't know yet but something that would make it less confusing to people. And I think also that if this was turned into a staged play we can really bring of the theme of love and even though you may disagree with someone's choices you still love them, like the daughter with the mother because she was charged with kill a baby due to witchcraft. And maybe we could make the scene what actually happened when the baby died. And how she went to jail in the first place, I think that could be very cool. These are the two story's that I would like to turn into a staged play. Both of them I'm fine with recreating, it's just I think both of them and think that they would be very intersecting to set up and act out and preform, they would tie up the lose string that the author created when she was writing the story's.

Endgame- chess term/also "the end"

Samuel Beckett- theater of absurd- explore meaninglessness of live- why are you alive?, what is the purpose?
Influence- witnessed a lot of death,  family members died
setting- concrete bunker- takes place after world disaster- post-apocalyptic
Characters;
Hamm- blind, cannot walk
Clov-adopted son, also servant
Hamms parents- very old, lives in trash cans

When writing are play we made it 10 years in the future, and we changed some of the ending of the story from the book. Like, in the first story that boy who didn't survive the boat he lived on. And in the story with lil guy and Lillie. Lil Guy stayed in school just like his mom wanted him to and he was able to move them both out of Haiti using college as a way out. So, a common theme would be freedom. Louis was finally freed by getting of off the boat. And Lillie finally did what she wanted to do 10 years earlier before Guy killed himself.  However to know what stories are connected with what we left the audience a little confused maybe, but thats just how we set it up because you really need to listen and pay close attention  and think about it. We gave clues like in the setting for example, in the story with the wedding they mention something about them finding a ship off of the coast of florida by Miami. We chose to make that be the ship the boy was on, Louis. Also we talked about him having a radio show, something that was mentioned very beefy in the story. And thats the reason why we didn't tell the people who he was in the beginning because we want to make it a mystery. Exploring the theme of freedom was important to us because most off the story are so negative and someone usually dies, all in all not that happy. But we thought that the Haitians should get a break and make it would of Haiti. To live on there lives, to still continue to tell stories to there children.  This is what I think about the dialogue that me and my group mates made.

 Ethan- Little Guy (18) College Student
Zoni- Louis (35) Office Job
Gia- Lili (33) Tailor/Seamstress
Setting- Miami, Florida. Coffee Shop.

Gia: “Guy, I don’t want you paying for me this time.”

Ethan: “Nonsense mom, it’s the least I can do for you. Now what are you getting this time?”

Zoni: “I suggest the Caramel Dark Roast, best one in Miami.”

Gia: “Oooh, that does sound good. Thank you for the suggestion…”

Zoni: “Louis.”

Gia: “Lili”

They shake hands

Gia: “Thank you Loius.”

Ethan: to the cashier “Two Caramel Dark Roasts please.”

Gia sits down with Louis.

Gia: “Best coffee in Miami, eh?”

Zoni: “Yeah, I’ve been here long enough to know what’s good and authentic.”

Gia: “Where did you come from then?”

Zoni: “Haiti, moved here 10 years ago.”

Gia: “I thought you were haitian, your accent is depreciating. My son and I moved here last year for his college.”

Ethan: “Graduated second best in my class in high school. Heres your coffee.”

Gia: “Thank you. He really made quite the effort to get us over here. So what do you do for work?”

Zoni: “I work at a radio station, I take the early morning shift for the show.”

Ethan: “That sounds like an interesting job, did it require a lot of experience?”

Zoni: “Yeah, back in Haiti I had my own show on the radio, mostly political rants.”

Gia: “My cousin used to listen to the radio all the time, she absolutely loved it.”

Zoni: “We had a lot of listeners from all over the place.”

Gia: “That’s so fascinating.”

Ethan: “Mom, I should really get you to work; it’s getting late.”

Gia: “Okay, Guy. It was nice talking to you, Loius.”

Zoni: “It was my pleasure.

Storytelling is very important in Krik Krack because since its a book of short stories you need to make them have some sort of connection or there won't be a point in reading. The author has to be very creative in the way she writes to make all of these stories flow as if they could be one. For example in the first story about the boy who was on a boat that was sinking and he died trying to escape. Later you find out in the most recent one we read that there was a boat found by Miami. So it leaves it up to you, the reader if this is connected or not. Another example of this is by her titles they give you and idea about what you will be reading about and if you really analyze it there are a lot of clues she leaves. Like in the book Night Woman, she choose this title to make you think that this will be about a woman who doe something in the night time maybe. As you come to find out when reading the book you realize that the woman has a secret, during the day she is a worker just earning minimum wage and at nigh she is a prostate. Also another thing that is common in her stories is that she makes them all in the low class. They are very poor and are beryl getting by. And one person in the family dies, they either kill themselves because they can't stand living like that anymore or something bad happens to them. Another book that I think also is a great example of storytelling is 1937 in this its a mother and daughter the mother was thrown in prison because she was accused with using witchcraft to kill a baby. In prison she's treated like dirt and is horrible beaten. Also the guards pour buckets of water on the woman so they don't grow wings of fire and escape. I liked this story lot because I really got a sense of the characters and I just thought it was interesting how the guards acted toward the woman almost like they actually had powers. And the last book I think showed a great deal of storytelling was the one about the family in Haiti who's father dies when trying to fly with the balloon. This one was very interesting during the whole story the father Guy wanted to fly to escape his horrible life only making a dollar a day. And a way to be free was to fly away and at his job they had this big balloon one day he took it and tried to fly but fell to a horrible death. This story connects back with the common theme of death and poverty. This is why I think that storytelling is important in the story she writes because they are separate but when you read them all you can see the connections that they all make to eachother other.

 In the story's woman's life in Haiti was horrible. They didn't have the ability to work in the same job places that men could work at, and because of this mostly had to stay home and care for the children and figure out what would be for dinner. Thus, making the woman give into the stereotype  that that's all they are good for. There husbands if there's were alive, since a lot of the either died while working, or committed suicide. Anyway, the men mostly worked in factories where the working conditions where awful. And they would only be making like $1 a day. So if you can image how living off of $1 a day would be like. It would be almost impossible because everything is so expensive here.  Then to connect it back to real life and how it's very similar. And because it's so similar I think that it's great to see how well the author portrayed life in a place that's so foreign to people in America. Like for example I never knew that Haiti was that back, I kinda though as it of a vacation spot where people can bring there family and have a good time. I couldn't have been more wrong. The world that they live in is so remote to the one that we have. And it makes you think of all the things we take for granted and we should be more thankful for what we have because someone can have I a lot worse. Also another thing that happens in the stories is that all these woman have such a strong bond with there children you can see it in a number of stories for example in "Night Woman" the mother made sure to never have here work interfere with here son because she never wants him to find out how she is providing for him. Also in the story about the family in Haiti and the father was fixed on getting a balloon and flying away from all of his problems. Anyway in that one the mom wanted here son to stay and school and get good grades of that he could maybe make it into a University and make it out of this place and poverty. However thats a lot of pressure to put on a 8 year old boy, but thats the way it is to make it out of that unstable country.  And in real life I don't think that that bond isn't as strong because its not that easy to have such a strong trust at such a young age. And this affects the well being of there family. 

Night Women

Woman (no name)- possible future/reality for lil and son
Son- 10-12
Men
Woman- working during day
Father
Angels

Plot- woman= prostitute (sex=money)
Night comes, she puts son to seep

New York Day Women

Characters- mother, daughter,

Plot-

Comparison- good relationship

I lost my other notes I had they were hand written and I lost the paper. So I uploaded the ones we all took in class. Hop that's okay

The tone in "Night Woman" is the will to do something that may not be right, but its the only thing you can do. The woman just wants the best for her son like every mom want the best for there children. And that will to get your child ahead of you either being more educated or more financially stable then you are is what everyone wants. I think that this is little extreme though maybe instead she could just pick up a job where the time she could work would be at night. And it will be a lot less risky then having your son find out what you actually do.

A common theme I think appears in both stories is freedom. There are different types of freedom, like freedom of religion.There are many examples and symbols that lead me to think this. In the first story "Wall of Fire Rising" flying is used multiple times to resemble freedom the ability to fly away from your problems. The main character in this talks about how he wants to get this balloon and fly and at the end of the story he goes to a bridge and jumps he tries to fly but this leads to his death.  Also freedom doesn't have to be related to flying it can also mean making it out of the horrible living conditions they are living in. So they have two options either send their son to go work now at a young age so when he gets to be the age of his father he will have and advantage then most people because he has been working instead of going to school. The other option that he has is to stay and school, his mother believes if he gets all As then he could maybe get into a University and be free from Hati and cut all ties he has to the school. In the other story "1937" this theme recurs in the symbolism of the words " fiery wings" the guards don't  want the inmates to grow wings and escape the prison and get their freedom back. In this case they had their freedom at one point so making them higher in social class then the family in the last book but they had it taken away because they practice voodoo. And at the end of this story when the main character gets beaten to death she goes to her afterlife, something that she believes in in her religion. At the end the daughter looks at the sun and says something along the lines so I hope I see you there as she was looking at the sun. She thinks that her mother got her freedom again and made it out of the prison and now is in a better place. Her mother gets charged with witchcraft. It happened when she tries to help a sick baby that would have died anyway, she gave it some herbs and it still died. Everyone then blamed her because she get the baby something that know one knew what it was and also because her religion is voodoo. I think that things would have turned out differently if she wasn't apart of that religion if she was like what normal people follow she wouldn't have lost here freedom. I think also that here daughter Josephine is jealous even though her mom died but that now she is finally free.  And she is still her trapped and now alone and she is hoping that when she dies she will be able to see her mother again so they can finally be together. This is the theme that I think appears in both of the stories.

The first quote about rain and how it's connected to love really make me think about the book, but don't in the sense of love but life. In the second story about the daughter with the mother in prison, when all that was going on it was like a the train so pouring she could still breath however so even though it was bad it could have been worse. Until her mother gets beaten to death in prison. That's when she gets swallowed up by life and drowns like what the quote says. She was grieving for a while until she looked at the sun and hoped that she would see her mother there one day. The other quote I like is also another one about water.  "The silent and calm water drowns you". I picked this because I think that you should always he aware and not get too comfortable because you never know what will happen next.

"1937" 

Josephine, is going to visit her mother at the prison. She meets a man on the street selling leeches and they then share a small conversation about her origin then he shows her a place where she can buy food for the inmates in the prison. Her mother was sentenced with charges of dabbling in the occult, and witch was giving life in prison. When she dies she will be burned and the remains will be spread out in the yard so her soul won't go to a new body. The guards don't treat them horribly she says. Also they get ice water poured on them so they don't grow there wings of fire and escape. Her mother gotten beaten to death because the guards didn't know how to heal the sickness she had. Then Josephine holds the doll and looks at the sun and in hope to one day see her mother again. 

"A wall of fire rising"

Family lives in a shack there is 3 children. All they eat is a cornmeal mush, it's better then not eating however. The only way the know what's going on outside of Haiti, is a TV that the governor decided to install in the center of town so the people could watch the state-sponsored news. They have a ritual before bed, he has to rub lemon over his wife's skin,  then he has memories of this father and how he was a poor man all his life. Guy remembers him as a man he never wants to be.