Drama Name: Erin Caulley Subject: Year 11 Drama Teacher: Miss Lodwick Snagged The play Snagged is an Australian play script written by Robert Kronk aimed specifically towards teenagers and any other young person who lives in a small geographically isolated town. The play Snagged gives us, the audience, an insight into what it is like for the teenagers who are faced with a difficult decision. The play starts with Sam, who is the main character throughout the course of the play; she has just graduated school and is on the cusp of adulthood when she is faced with a dilemma. Sam has to choose between leaving a town that could not under anyone’s terms be described as teenage friendly or stay and help her father in the butcher’s shop and not pursue her career as a veterinarian. Things are only made harder for her when Josh moves back to Oxbrook and they become romantically entangled.
Addy was still weak from the efforts of her labour, and still sore and bleeding, but she knew she had to leave and she had to leave today" (Lansens 271). Then, when Addy loses Chick, she handles the situation in a better way: "She would not pass through the big oak doors though. Instead she climbed the fire escape stairs, stepping around Mr. Baldwin's winter wood and kindling, intent on keeping her memories at bay" (Lansens 472). Addy is able to overcome the feeling of hurt fast after the death of her second child because she already faces a similar dilemma with her first child. She leaves a whole country to conquer the feeling of loss of her first child whereas she simply decides to ignore the passage her family used to take together in her building after her second child dies.
Khadijah Gibbs Coach York Eleventh Grade Literature 20 May 2011 Learning and Personal Growth in To Kill a Mockingbird Conflict is an inevitable part of life. In many cases, these conflicts are between two individuals debating over one specific subject. It is often hard to declare a winner when both people consider their argument to be the correct one. Scout and Jem learn the tools necessary to overcome conflict through personal experience as well as the experiences of other characters in the novel. As a person grows older, conflicts in life become a more regular and more real occurrence.
“Saidu had climbed to the attic to bring down rice for their journey, when the rebels stormed in. He sat in the attic, holding his breath and listening to the wailing of his sisters as the rebels raped them. His father shouted at them to stop, and one of the rebels hit him with the butt of his gun. Saidu’s mother cried and apologised to her daughters for having brought them into this world to be victims of such madness. After the rebels had raped the sisters over and over, they bundled up the family’s property and made Saidu’s parents carry it.
Slowly we see Carl standing up for himself and his brother Harley. At one stage of the novel Carl comes back to auntie Beryl’s house to see Harley chained up in her living room. Carl was absolutely furious, even though he knew what he did which was to steal chips and lollies from the store. This episode triggered Carl to stand up for Harley “It was cruel Beryl. You wouldn’t do that to a dog.” This act was his very first leap of confidence.
After his people rob him of all the money he has received from the “white man” in order to feed their alcoholism, he is also cannibalized when they steal his wooden leg. He represents the Indian people themselves and how they have participated internally in the crumbling of their own community. Bobby is regularly concerned about who is related to whom. He also has a dream of being sober 4> There are three generations of Indians in this play, and the characters that represent them are depicting the most destructive elements of their own generation. The elders, Howard and Ethel, are the first ones to rob Bobby, suggesting the elder generation relying on the efforts and losses of the next.
The mother wants her daughter to act the way she thinks she should. The mother’s use of the word “slut” makes the story have a harsh tone, and the tone it is persistent throughout the story. Despite the harsh and belittling tone, “Putting her foot down” on her daughter is the theme of the story. The mother is giving advice, or what is perceived to be as demands, about what a woman is supposed to be like. Case in point, “...on Sundays try to walk like a lady...you mustn’t speak to wharf-rat boys, not even to give directions...this is how to sew on
The boss and his son drug and kicked at the woman to get her into the store so that they could beat her. After being beaten the woman came out of the store bleeding, crying, stumbling, and holding her stomach. When the woman got to the sidewalk she was immediately grabbed and accused of being drunk. When Richard went back into the store his boss and his son were washing there hands at the sink, and cleaning the blood, wisps of hair, and bits of clothing from the floor. When they looked at Richard they saw that he was shocked.
She screams “‘Help, for God’s sake, help!’...fled from the table, and fell into the arms of his father, who came rushing up to her” (18). His mother has asthma, and Gregor is concerned about upsetting her. His father, however, has quite a different reaction. Gregor’s manager flees from the house and his father gets angry. Instead of showing the slightest bit of concern for Gregor, he instead reacts with violence, lashing out at Gregor.
If me or Lena ran down stair like that, Mammy would send us back up and make us walk down again properly. But she doesn't say anything to Big Alec" (page 2, line 71-73). Mount Pleasant starts, when the reader is being dumped right into an ongoing "crime". Elizabeth is up in the attic of their house, which she is definitely not supposed to. According to herself, getting found up there will result in a punishment involving a wooden spoon.