My favorite character was Jack. I love a good comedy and to me he was the funniest character we've read about. I love the way his mind works, he wants more in life so he just creates a new name to go under! How genius is that?! It's like no sweat for him, he doesn't mind acting, until it comes to the girl he loves, even though she's shallow at first. I also like how he ended up coming clean about his double life too, he had his fun then had to fess up. His life sounds yes complicated, but none the less like a total blast.


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I can't pick a favorite because I greatly enjoyed all three of them. Each play brought something different to the table. With Raisin in the Sun, what I enjoyed most about it was the diversity in the family. They all have different ways of thinking, beliefs and taking action. It was also very suspenseful with the money situation. It just really showed how lower class black families tried to get by back in the day. All in all an excellent play.

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man In the Moon Marigolds threw me for a loop. It was not at all what I expected, which is why I think I enjoyed it so much. I liked it because how dysfunctional the family was, mostly Beatrice. Probably also because I really enjoyed playing the part. All the problems they had together and individually were so different from what we've read in school ever and that's mostly why I liked this play, simply because it's different.

I enjoyed The Importance of Being Earnest for all the comedy!! There were so many twists and turns everywhere and it was flat out hilarious. I really enjoy puns so this play was a great one to read. I loved all the suspense, it wasn't a serious play and that's why I liked it so much.


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Tyler Erwin makes me make both of these noises frequently, (except for the meow.) He just acts like I'm as terrible as Mussolini when in fact he is the hurtful one!! It's very upsetting and I have to go eat a tub of ice cream now to help my self esteem.

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The Inability to Make Meaningful Human Connections

Beatrice is a large culprit of this. She tries to completely shut out the outside world just because she is afraid. Her window is covered up so she and her family don't have those outside conncections. She hates the world so she doesn't want to communicate with it. Nanny can't make any connections with humans or anything really because she is blind and deaf so basically she just moves around.

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Life versus Death

Death is a major theme in the play. It's all over the place. The inside of the house just looks like death with all the junk and newspapers strewn around and stuff. They have Nanny and she's nothing more than a moving corpse. Beatrice is one deadly lady with the way she kills the rabbit, which is sad, and she constantly kills her daughters spirits by belittling them and bringing them down.

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Dreams

Beatrice, Tillie, and Ruth all have different dreams. Ruth ends up seizuring from her dream, from when she found Mr. Mayo dead. Beatrice talks to Ruth of her dream with her father and the vegetable wagon after Ruth awake from her dream and calms down. Beatrice talks a lot of how she dreams of opening a tea shop and becoming a dancer. Tillie however has scientific dreams of her own.
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Self- Image

Self image is huge part of this play. Ruth is all about her physical image. She has to dress in tight sweaters, she won't go anywhere without make-up on, she just always have to look good. She also doesn't like to claim or be associated with Tillie, her sister because people laugh at Tillie. Beatrice pretty much is the way she is because of her self-image. She tells her kids how popular she was in high school, just to make herself look better because in reality people made fun of her, they called her Betty the Loon. When Beatrice got dressed up for the science fair she was trying to better her selfimage because she was worried about what everyone will think. Ruth caked a bunch of make up on for the science fair because her image had to look as good as possible.

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