In the middle Margaret graduates from high school and this is where her classmates, their parents and staff find out that her parents are deaf. Mr. Patrakis gives Margaret radio as a graduation gift, she is so excited that she brings it home, plugs it in and her dad seems to be interested and Margaret and her dad start to dance until her mom unplugs it to cook signing that the radio doesn’t belong. Margaret gets a job as a secretary and is still the only link between the deaf and hearing world for her parents. She has so social life and when a handsome man named William shows interest in her she makes excuses not to go out with him. William is persistent though and Margaret eventually gives in and they go on their first date. Margaret keeps the fact of her parents being deaf from William until he purposes to her and William tells her that he doesn’t care that her parents…
“Orphan Train” has many conflicts. One conflict that stands out is the conflict between Molly and herself. Molly is not good at making good decisions. She steals book from the library and causes trouble around town. Molly is forced to do community work and help out Vivian. If she does not do this she would go to juvenile jail. As Molly continues to help out Vivian, they become very close and Molly learns a lot about Vivian’s past. Through out this book Molly becomes a better person and no longer gets in trouble with the…
the beginning and the end. She is the mentor and guide who helps him from the beginning to find his…
The play “Ruby Moon” by Matt Cameron explores strong issues and fears that have accumulated throughout post modern and modern society today. Cameron creates a sense of loss and grief by using the story of a young girl called ruby who goes missing on her way to her grandmas. Cameron purposefully makes all the characters in the play who are involved in the mystery of the girl are dysfunctional and the play ends up making no logical sense but still elicits a range of emotions from the audience.…
tell him: ’’‘’No divorce, Ronald,” he repeatd.”No divorce. Don’t let that bitch break up the home place””(16). Ronald relationship with is father is awful because his father is not only dominant with him but he is also really cold toward him. The best example of this coldness would be at the end when Gil says to Ronald: ‘’You’ve got no right to look down on me,’’(17).…
Mick, with her courageous and rebellious spirit as she moves from childhood into adolescence, is the other strong central point of the narrative. Although Singer is the focus, it is debatable that Mick is the protagonist. Her passionate obsession with music increases her desires. Mick usually listens to Singer’s radio. A lonely tomboy, her attraction to Singer, helps her cope with her low-income family. A summer picnic expedition with her Harry Minowitz only intensifies her isolation.…
The Characters within Ruby Moon are all very different from each other while at the same time they chow that everyone is different behind closed doors. Ruby Moon addresses the ideas of the Suburban streets you will be safer however, Matt Cameron looks to shows the other side of this life style as it affects the population of Australia. Matt Cameron states ‘human nature isn’t determined by geographical location’ saying that no matter where you live people don’t change and everyone has their secrets; the characters within the play display human nature. In class we have acted out scenes of the play in an attempt to understand the characters, one scene which was acted out included the character Dawn. Dawn is attempting to let Ray Moon in on a secret though as no character in the play is truly understandable Ray becomes nervous ‘what’s in the case Dawn’. It turns out to be dolls which this somewhat crazy teenager uses to play with as she played with Ruby. The moment before the case is opened is intense as the tension created through mistrust is imminent. Within Ruby Moon Ray and Sylvie don’t rust any of the neighbours or each other. In A Beautiful Life mistrust is present though it is a mistrust of the system.…
This poem relates to the book because the boy from the book Billy who was in the Socs group got killed by Johnny who was from the Greasers, Johnny killed Billy because he was tired of them picking on his friends and his brother because they always jumped…
Randy Newman’s song “Strange Things” relates to the Novel The Outsiders that friends and family will support you . It was about Woody from Toy Story and how he starts losing his friends because Andy one of the characters takes all the toys except for Woody and it shows that he started losing his friends because he hasn’t seen them in a long time.In The Outsiders , Ponyboy a greaser had lost Johnny and Dally because Johnny and Dally were both killed . Eventually, Randy a Soc also loses a friend Bob the most spoiled soc .Ponyboy had already known how it feels to lose someone because he had lost his parents in a car accident and now he had lost two of his friends.…
Ruby Moon’s narrative structure can be described as episodic. This episodic narrative is significant to the character development and to the advancement of the plot through several ways. The episodic narrative slowly gives away the many paradoxes of Ray and Sylvie, and reveals these two main characters through Dulcie, Dawn, Sid, Sonny Jim etc. The condensed format of the play allows the audience to grow organically alongside the characters, slowly developing in front of their eyes. It also advances the plot by showing the audience the warped reality of Ray and Sylvie in their own world, and lets them decide different interpretations.…
In Billy Collins’ poem “Divorce”, he describes how marriages usually lead to divorce through his use of symbolism in the poem. Collins begins the poem by symbolizing a married couple as “Once, two spoons in bed” (Line 1). This line is significant because it shows the married couple as the kitchen utensils of spoons. The spoons symbolize how married couples are one team together and like spoons that hold substances the couple hold each other in bed which shows there love for one another. The setting of the spoons in bed also portrays the couple in a peaceful and comfortable setting. Then, the poem moves into a stage before divorce, and Collins mentions the married couple when he says “now tined forks” (2). The married couple now symbolize forks…
When Gerald was a child he was fascinated by fire. But fire is dangerous and powerful, and tragedy strikes. His substance-addicted mother is taken from him. Then he loses the loving generosity of a favorite aunt. A brutal stepfather with a flaming temper and an evil secret makes his life miserable. The one bright light in Gerald's life is his little half sister, Angel, whom he struggles to protect from her father, Jordan Sparks, who abuses her, and from their mother, whose irresponsible behavior forces Gerald to work hard to keep the family together. As a teenager, Gerald finds success as a member of the Hazelwood Tigers basketball team, while Angel develops her talents as a dancer. Trouble still haunts them, however, and…
wants to be Americanized and hates the part that he is Asian. Ronnie is a street violinist that…
In the third stanza (not including the chorus) is about when the boy came from college for a visit. Last time the son asked the father to spend…
How has Cameron Malcher used dramatic forms, performance styles, techniques and conventions to communicate strong social and personal issues in his production of Ruby Moon?…