- I agree about the difficulty to read the book and where some characters will have a solid block of dialogue that seems a bit more like an essay. I wonder if Winning Boy will have something to do with the "Piano lesson". Maybe he instructs Maretha?
Friday, November 19, 2010
The Piano Lesson Journal 3
One thing I thought that was interesting in this portion of the play was the fact that the author decides to include descriptions of many of characters past now. To name a few we learned that Berniece believes Boy Willie to be responsible for her husbands death, the reason why she doesn't want him to sell the piano, a more in depth background on Winning Boy and a lot more about the Ghost of the Yellow Dogs. I what the author hopes to accomplish by letting us develop judgments and feelings about characters with half truths only later telling us the other half.
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Yes. The author does include information about some of the characters and their relation to the history of the piano in the latter part of Act one of the book. This may have been done in order to prepare us to foreshadow something that might happen later with regards to the piano and more information about the “Ghosts of the Yellow Dog”.
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I thought the way the author introduced the characters and didn't give us their full story until the end of Act one was very unusual. I wasn't able to connect or relate to the characters until much later in the story and still feel like they're a mystery. Also, I thought that the story about the Ghosts of the Yellow Dog was very intriguing and feel like the story has created a lot of superstitions and has affected a lot of people.
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