Final Paper Assignment Driving While Stupid, a Miami Herald column written by humorist Dave Barry, was written with the intent to make readers aware of the bad driving habits of today’s motorists. Dave started off his column by mentioning that he wanted to tell the reader of something he saw while driving on the I-95 Interstate in Miami, Florida. Before he did so, however, he felt compelled to provide proof that Miami drivers are the worst drivers in the world.
Highway shows how the brothers mature past the sexual abuse inflicted upon them by Father Lafleur at the school, and how Jeremiah and Gabriel cope by developing their passions in music and dance. Tomson Highway applies traditional Cree mythology to portray the impact of residential schools upon Aboriginal life and culture, and the resulting dramatization of Aboriginal. Kristina Fagan says in “Weesageechak Meets the Weetigo” that Highway uses the tool of storytelling in Kiss of the Fur Queen “to explore connections between the traumatic past and troubles in the present and to self-reflexively examine the potential and limits of such indirect... communication” (Fagan, 1). The idea of indirect communication, is instead of saying something or expressing themselves directly, a person acts something out, or gets their point across in a round-about way. It's a subtle way of communicating harsh issues.
The play How I learned to Drive is an original play by American writer, Paula Vogel. The first premiered on March 16, 1997 Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre. Paula Vogel was assisted on the play but Molly Smith, as the artistic director, at the Perseverance Theatre in Alaska. The play is about a woman named Li’l Bit who learns how to drive and the life behind the wheel of a car.
Theatre reflects the society in which it is in. Use of particular elements of drama and production in Harrison’s Stolen and Keene’s Life Without Me and evokes the audience’s engagement and understanding of the dramatic meaning that is created. By exploring the development of the character’s personal concerns the audience can effectively engage with and consider the cultural issues expressed in these two plays. By highlighting and exploring these key issues the audience is challenged and confronted with a representation and reflection on parts of Australian culture. The thematic issues and concerns of both plays include – Racism, Discrimination, Persecution, Lack of Respect, Identity, Belonging (or lack of), Discovery and the issues of Home.
In the plays, The Importance of Being Earnest and How I Learned To Drive, the ongoing use of metaphors aids in the development of the plot line and ¬the readers understanding of the characters. There are many examples of metaphors used in both these plays; however, some have more significance than others. In The Importance of Being Earnest, the metaphor of a double life provides insight to pretending to be someone you are not. In How I Learned To Drive, learning to drive delivers a metaphor for sex and the growing up of Li’l Bit. In both plays the characters are leading lives that are not truly their own.
On November 18, 2017, I saw the Richland College Theatre Department’s production of RIDE by Eric Lane. In this essay, I will express what we’re the exceptional things that I saw. Also, I will use terms from what I learned from class, to explain some factors that I interpreted from the play. Starting off, the indicated play, had a humorous but serious mood throughout the program. Dark twists from left to right, to the point where it can be considered a tragic comedy, which means that overall the play is a tragedy, but the playwright uses humor, sometimes satirical, to advance the storyline or deliver a message.
How I Learned to Drive: A Critique of Abuse and Morality in Society Child abuse is regarded as one of the most heinous crimes in society. During the past few decades, social awareness regarding child abuse has reached a new high. In the award winning play How I Learned to Drive, Paula Vogel explores the subject of child abuse through the life of Lil Bit. In the play, Lil Bit recalls her journey to adulthood through a broken chronology revolving around driving lessons. The play is centered on the increasingly intimate relationship between Lil Bit and Uncle Peck through her teenage years.
In the play, How I learned to drive, it dwells between an affair between the protagonist of the play, Lil’ Bit, and her dear Uncle Peck. The affair between them both takes place through the course of her life from the age of 11 to 18 until she finally makes an end to it. How I Learned to Drive cycles through memories of issues that deal with victimization, sexual abuse, incest, and alcoholism; not forgetting about growth, acceptance, and forgiveness. At the beginning of the play, a very apparent theme would be gender. From the second scene in their household, Lil’ Bit begins to tell what it’s like at a “normal family dinner”.
Cruise Control was one of the best books I have read all year. I liked this book because he handled every situation pretty well. In this book he had all his anger balled up inside of him which helped him along the way. He also loves to play basketball and he wins the final game at the end of the book. Cruise Control was interesting because you could feel what he was going through the whole book.
The frequent use of stage effects in Tennessee William’s A Street Car Named Desire makes it evident that the themes are not simply expressed just through dialogue, but also music and sound. The authors intent is to use these effects to set mood of a specific scene- or the whole play; to propose an idea, or an action; to show feeling of a character, and to let the audience know what he or she is thinking. These elements are not perceptible to the eye such as a prop but hearing and analyzing the sound and music in this play can create dramatic devices and ideas. It is the sound designer’s task to read the text, analyze the authors indications, collaborate with the director, and to mix or edit sounds. Williams used metaphors in his stage directions
In the previously used example, the couple’s innocence regarding sex education is undoubtedly funny, but it is also troublesome. Works of art are not meant to communicate one affect, and the play follows in this tradition by perpetuating the complicated dichotomy of feeling both amused and concerned by and for the
I will first discuss how the Indigenous value of humor is used in the play as both an expression of care in relationships, and as a coping mechanism
Which brings out my next point, the theatre of the Absurd. Theatre of the Absurd plays a great role in this play and is influenced by the philosophical concept of existentialism, where there’s meaning to everything but at the same time everything is nothing. An example would be the character Lucky, despite the name “Lucky” he lives his life as a slave of another character, Pozzo. Lucky is known as a character that has a lot of knowledge but is unable the share it as he doesn’t have the ability to speak coherently. This can be shown in the long speech made by Lucky in the first act, where he talks about a lot of topics that seem unrelated to each other, suggesting that Lucky’s current life is very complicated and is shown in a darkly humorous way.
Knowing how to drive a manual transmission vehicle, is one of those things that you'll never know when you'll use the knowledge but you will be happy that you learned. For example traveling to a foreign country, and their standard transmission on their cars is manual, then you will be grateful that you learned. Learning how to drive a manual, comes as second nature once you get the hang of it, the best way to start learning is by either owning a manual vehicle or be having easy access to one. Once getting the vehicle, you'll have to start the engine, it’s done by putting the key in the ignition, and making sure the car is in neutral and the clutch is fully pressed.
Sweaty palms, a general sense of fear, and surprisingly enough, some excitement. That’s how it felt in the car on my first drive. Learning to drive is actually a crazy thing when you think about it. We are throwing teenagers, some as young as fifteen years old, into motorized vehicles and putting them on the roadways. That’s a lot of faith and trust to put into the hands of someone so young and naive.
