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BELONGING / ALIENATION - Two sides of the same coin (duality)

Some conceptual dimensions;
• choice vs circumstance
• change / transition
• identity
• values
• contextual influences

Drama

7 mins Exciting
• the day i got washed out to sea
• getting hit by a car
• scoring 12 goals in one football match

7 mins Boring
• brushing my teeth every morning
• getting locked out after school
• looking for food

7 mins Unknown
• legs falling asleep while getting a blow job
• using hand to wipe my arse
• rachel veitch

7 mins Not Human Watching You
• mirror watching me flex
• goldfish watching me make faces like a fish
• toilet bowl watching me write words with my piss

7 mins Felt Love or Compassion
• seeing my uncle homeless in the city
• having sex
• seeing my guinea pig eaten by a wild animal

Show comedy, love and tragedy. PLOT LINE

(perspective of pet) kid goes to school gets class pet to keep over weekend attaches emotionally to class pet because he can tell it anything loses the class pet breaks down and wishes he had his pet to talk about his sadness finds pet! puts it on the spinning wheel, wheel doesnt move trys to encourage pet pet is a rock the end.

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The setting for the scene is poker party, at Stanley's apartment - Elysian Fields. This is a typically masculine activity, and the dialogue (language technique) between Stanley, Pablo, Steve is short and abrupt - in some cases nearly monosyllabic.

At the beginning of the scene Blanche appears to display strange behaviour. Steve is 'stolid but depressed'.

SCENE 7
Stella is decorating the apartment as it is Stella's birthday. Stanley has 'dirt' on Blanche, so Blanche was kicked out of the Flamingo Hotel and deemed the terms crazy person. Also Blanche was having relations with a 17 year old boy. Stanley informs Mitch of Blanche's deceit.

THE KITE RUNNER
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Religious Devision
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Love of Family

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