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August Wilson's The Piano Lesson

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August Wilson's The Piano Lesson takes a gander at the African Americans isolation from Mississippi who has set out North without dealing with their southern past. This question is communicated in the sibling sister strife amongst Bernice and Boy Willie over a collectible, 135-year-old piano that their extraordinary granddad cut for a white man, which has been acquired by the kin now. They contend about whether to regard their slave progenitors or deny the family's past subjugation. Kid Willie wishes to pitch the piano to be free of the past, however this yearning is too his method for thinking about his precursors and expanding on their legacy. For him, offering the piano is a proof of the past not a refusal. Then again, Bernice wants to have
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