by racism and segregation. Athol Fugard brings his play to life‚ by using symbolic metaphor techniques with a driving story of a young teen (Harold Hally) going through personal and family difficulty with his two colored servants (Sam Semala) and (Willie Malopo)‚ this piece emphasizes more than the general issue of racism‚ it describes how sparks of hope can influence an individuals perception‚ altering beyond the limit of color‚ it emphasizes the value of family and friendship‚ with its fair share
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characteristics such as money and class issues. Hilda’s character is described through Willie and Sam at the beginning of the play when Willie is joyfully dancing without a partner around the room. The fist impression we are given of Hilda is negative as Willie describes her as a “fucking whore” (Fugard 5) and a “bitch”. (Fugard 5) This reference is evidence that the relationship between Hilda and Willie is tense with a lot of disagreements. This is similar to the relationship between Hally’s
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If you stop going to school‚ you turn off the light of education. Then‚ when the police catch you doing wrong‚ even on the State level‚ now you have a Felony Conviction for drugs‚ guns‚ fighting with the Police‚ etc.!! This is because you cannot sell drugs without carrying a gun to protect yourself from those that want to rob you and take your drug money. You also have to threaten and collect from people who owe you drug money. So‚ now what? The slave master takes you right out of the equation. You
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Death of a Salesman: A Different Perspective Jeanne Gordon Shawnee State University IDST Civilization and Literature November 21‚ 2011 In Death of a Salesman‚ a play written by Arthur Miller‚ Willie Loman is a salesman! In the introduction of the play‚ we can see exactly how Miller feels about a person being a salesman by the reply he made to a comment and said " he sells what a salesman has to sell‚ himself. As Charley insists ‚ the only thing you got in this world is what you can sell
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mama ain’t birthed me for nothing. So what I got to do? I got to make my passing on the road. Just like you write on a tree‚ Boy Willie was here” Boy Willie is relating to having a double consciousness. He was emasculated at the age of seven. He has no education only the street smarts from the experiences he has gone through. Towards the end of the book Boy Willie realizes that the piano has meaning when Bernice gets rid of Sutter’s ghost by singing on the
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catch her breath as she explains the situation to Doaker and Boy Willie. She hallucinates and states that she has seen the “ghost of Sutter.” However‚ Boy Willie refutes her story stating “that’s all in Berniece’s head” (Wilson 13). After Berniece encounters the ghost of Sutter‚ she suggests that Boy Willie and Lymon leave her house because she believes that Boy Willie brings trouble with him everywhere he goes. She then blames Boy Willie for the death of Crawley stating‚ “If it wasn’t for you Crawley
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Conformity can kill literally‚ or mentally. Conformity can do the good in things as well. For Oscar‚ and Willie‚ that wasn’t their case. As‚ I stated before Conformity subjects people to do the ideal right thing in everybody else’s eyes. Oscar did the ideal right thing by cooperating with police and telling others to do the same‚ and he was killed. Willie was being dishonest with himself and everybody around him because he couldn’t face the truth. Conformity kills in it’s own way
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place in a small Tea House in Port Elizabeth in South Africa. The play starts off with Sam and Willie‚ two black servants at the restaurant cleaning and talking about a ballroom dance tournament coming up. Hally‚ a teenage white boy whose parents own the restaurant walks in after coming from school and begins to have a conversation with Sam and Willie. In the period of only an hour and a half or so‚ Sam‚ Willie‚ and Hally give a small glimpse of a very big problem. Through past memories they talk about
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same name. It was first performed at the Yale Repertory Theater November 26‚ 1987. The Piano Lesson tells the story of an artistically carved piano‚ the interwoven stories of the Sutter and Charles families that owned the piano. Berniece and Boy Willie (the grand children of the slave who carved the piano) have different views on what to do with the family piano which has much of the family’s history dealing with slavery‚ oppression and loss. The theme of the play is not to run from your legacy
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piano when her ancestor’s faces were carved into it. Her father‚ Papa Boy Willie‚ stole the piano from the Sutter family‚ and was later burned to death in a box car‚ assumingly for the theft. To Berniece‚ the piano serves as a constant reminder of her father’s death‚ and
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