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Ten Minute Play In Dan Dietz's Sure Thing And Trash Anthem

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Ten-Minute Play Analysis & Evaluation

Analysis is examining something in pieces and parts to understand it as a whole.
Evaluation is making a judgement, or a claim, and supporting it with evidence.

After reading the plays Sure Thing and Trash Anthem, I want you to analyze each play 's structure, characters, and dialogue; then write an evaluation of which one is the more effective play. Your paper should be roughly 2 pages in length.

Tiffany Dinh
Mrs. Love Hilliard
Creative Writing
24 January 2018
Literary Analysis
In both the plays Sure Thing written in 1998, by David Ives, and Trash Anthem written in 2003, by Dan Dietz, they depict two characters who live in a symbolic world of redos. Ives develops this relationship with a bell that allows for a “fresh start” every time it rings. While Dietz inserts new starts into the play towards the beginning and two more times throughout the story. The two plays both utilize a “new beginning” but Ives develops his play more effectively with the use of repetition, symbolism, and the development of his characters.
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