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.