House On Mango Street Monologue

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Script Each character has a monologue!! Jessica, played by Maryssa: “Everything was all good in the beginning but somewhere along the line, things went wrong. Chad and I were good together; we had four beautiful children and we rarely argued. But the last five years of our marriage was bad. Chad lost his good paying job and became stressed when he had to find another way to support our family. Unfortunately, he began to drink to lower his stress but drunken Chad was abusive. Whenever Chad drank, he drank, and anyone who got in his way would face his wrath, and unfortunately, that was me. He would come home drunk and take his stress out on me. He would yell at me, calling me worthless and stupid, and hit me in front of the kids. At first,…show more content…
My siblings and I were on winter break and we had just finished eating dinner. My mom was washing dished while we were upstairs watching TV, when we heard the front door slam as our father entered the house. Quietly, we listened as our father entered the kitchen and began yelling at our mother. Suddenly, my mother screamed and a whole bunch of dishes and glasses fell to the ground. We all ran down the stairs and looked into the kitchen, where we saw our mother laying on the ground, clutching her arm with our father glaring down at her. Liliana quickly ran over to where our mother was and began begging our father to stop hurting her while Nina grabbed Alex and took him to his room to get him to stop crying. My father glanced at me and Liliana before walking out of the kitchen. That night, we went to the hospital and our mother ended up having to where a cast because she broke her wrist when she fell. The very next day, we went to a dinner party where we had to pretend to be a big, happy family. My mother put on her happy face and pretended like nothing had happened the night before. She even came up a with a cover story for her cast. That day was the day I realized how strong our mother was. Even though she was in pain, she went out and acted as if everything was fine. Her strength amazes

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