Analysis Of Gruesome Playground Injuries

Our play uses variety of styles, mainly Brecht’s epic theatre as our play depicts political message. Our play is structured as montage as it shows different stages of George’s life in a non-chronological order, we effectively did this

The depiction of timeless issues such as these is what makes the storyline of the play compelling to me.

central to the play. I am going to look at only the first act of the

In Summary, with these three examples it is shown that the play and the movie contrast quite a bit. Most of the story line and the dialogue were very similar to the original story in the movie but some things were changed, possibly to shorten the story to be able to make

The social climate in the play is very grim. No matter where you are in the play there are always characters who are suffering. This may be understood as the people in the play are representing the Indian Americans who lived on reservations all over America, and most of them went through suffering. Another social climate is the desire to escape there current situation. Eddie does not want to leave his sister alone, but he is tired of living on the reservation that he would rather be dead. Aunt Thelma tells Eddie how life could have been better if she could have escaped, and had a chance at an education. Mike dreams of leaving and being taken care of by his aunt. Even Katherine dreams of leaving the reservation to find a better place for her kids. There were many other social climates such as pain, depression, destructive habits, and lack of role models. There are no real role models in this play that the kids can look up to. Even Aunt Thelma has lost her child, so it is not the best example to live by.

Throughout the play there are many themes leading up to and causing the chief event.

This play is about the experiences of a dying school boy, it is a celebration of life and the power to heal through gaining insight.

details. One example of this is in the beginning of the story. In the play,

The overall dramatic meaning of this play has been successfully shown by the elements of drama. The

To begin with, in this play the author unfolds family conflicts that involve its characters into a series of events that affected their lives and pushed them to unexpected ways.

The elements of a play are setting, irony, plot, characters, and theme, which will be discussed in the essay.

shall firstly do a summery of the play and give a basic image of what

Theme – the reason behind why the playwright wrote the play. “Patterns of life”, a slice of reality.

look at both of the aspects of the play. In my piece of writing I

reoccur throughout the play. The time period which this piece was written, was know as