We have now finished reading the play and are viewing the made for television version in class. We will most likely finish it on Monday. If you were absent on Friday, you can view the film on youtube, just make sure it looks like the version of the clip we watched of the men in the play singing "Berta Berta". We stopped right about the time Doaker begins to explain the origins of the piano. Today we started watching the film, along with receiving our group project assignment that you will begin in class next week. Over the weekend, you need to address the following topics and blog your responses. Responses need to be a paragraph in length, (about 5-7 sent) if not more.
1) What do you think "the piano lesson" is?
2) Why did August Wilson choose this title?
At the end of the play, Boy Willie finds himself at odds with Sutter's Ghost and decides to leave the house and return peacefully once and for all to Mississippi.
3) How is it that Boy Willie comes to understand the importance of the piano in the final scene of the play?
Berniece has had the power all along to rid the house of Sutter, yet she doesn't use her power until the final scene when she sings to her dead ancestors.
4) What is significant about her calling out the names of her dead family members?
5) What purpose does this serve?
1) What do you think "the piano lesson" is?
2) Why did August Wilson choose this title?
At the end of the play, Boy Willie finds himself at odds with Sutter's Ghost and decides to leave the house and return peacefully once and for all to Mississippi.
3) How is it that Boy Willie comes to understand the importance of the piano in the final scene of the play?
Berniece has had the power all along to rid the house of Sutter, yet she doesn't use her power until the final scene when she sings to her dead ancestors.
4) What is significant about her calling out the names of her dead family members?
5) What purpose does this serve?
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