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Power in language
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- Dec 2019
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I’ll get you some tea, habibi, you look a bit shell-shocked. Don’t worry, there are no shells here. Well, apart from a few seashells, eh? (laughs) We’re notevenallowed to make our owntea, but as long as you cover your tracks, eh?
She seems warm, friendly
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Sorry. I don’t understand.
Language barrier
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Again, we’ll move on to that later.
Dominating conversation
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- Sep 2019
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1). For Michael leaves his mother and fiancee not only to join the French, but also to devote himself to a figure who combines key features of both women.
Michael feels a higher calling, he wants to devote himself to something that is bigger than himself and his own life, including his mother and Delia... An idealized mother figure/mother land
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o a highly idealized politica
The Old Woman/Ireland is seen as an idealized mother.
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e of a supernatural, phantasmal mother-figure who personifies Irel
The Old Woman is portrayed as a human but she has and represents supernatural forces, the spirit of a country..
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e's responses to th
The play centers on Michael's interactions with 3 women, all representing different aspects of his life and his future.
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Amn't I after seeing the love-light of the I I star of knowledge shining from her brow, and hearing words would j I put you thinking on the holy Brigid speaking to the infant saints, and · now she'll be turning again, and speaking hard words to me, like an · · old woman with a spavindy ass she'd have, urging on a hill.
Christy speaks poetically about Pegeen
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p love in every shadow of the ditch, and you passing on with an empty, hungry stomach failing from your heart.
Loneliness
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A walking terror from beyond the hills, and she two score and five years, and two hundredweights and five pounds in the weighing scales, with a limping leg on her, and a blinded eye, and she a woman of noted misbehaviour with the old and young
He was to marry an older woman, undesirable
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Wasn't I telling you, and you a fine, handsome young fellow with a noble brow?
She is flattering Christy
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Now, by the grace of God, herself will be safe this night, with a man killed his father holding danger from the door,
Ironic = she will be safe with a murderer
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very kindly and persuasively
She talks to him sweetly/persuasively
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I never used weapons. I've no license, and I'm a law-fearing man
Ironic
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Don't strike me. I killed my poor father, Tuesday was a week, for doing the like of that.
Christy killed his father
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with a flash of family pride
Despite having nothing, Christy does have some family pride
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Leave me go, Michael James, leave me go, you old Pagan, leave me go, or I'll get the curse of the priests on you, and of the scarlet-coated bishops of the courts of Rome.
Shawn hysterically flees
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what at all would the Holy Father and the Cardinals of Rome be saying if they heard I did the like of that
Shawn is afraid of being alone with Pegeen (what the priests will think)
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I see . . . I cannot take him. No.
You cannot restrict or stop an ocean. You cannot control or own an ocean = Only way for many refugees
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et her body go to the waves
The old woman dies
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I had given you up
The man IS Joseph/The Captain ??
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hey will call me John
John = anglicized name?
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The man is angry, he wants a real/authentic kind of freedom
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Of course not
Contrasts to him saving the drowning child when he says "of course" because it is right --> it is different somehow
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This way . . . I will find you! . . . Left . . . I will find a job.I will find you a house . . . This way . . . No . . . I willfind you the softest bed and the whitest sheets
Pining for her child
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New information: The old woman's name is Anna. The boy gives more information about his identity. He identifies himself as 17 years old.
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Did you report any of the incidents which you have justdescribed to the police or to other state authorities? Ifnot, why not?
The man seems to be repeating the words of authority/officials
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Board a rusting tub in Turkey and be wrecked onthe rocks of Italy, or washed up in the waves in France. . . Explain what? Camp in a container for weeks untilthe ship is unloaded in Canada . . .
Immigrants everywhere meet the same fate just in different places
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This (the pendant) is all I have toprove to you who I am.
The man has a pendant = is it the same pendant as the boy's?
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You have been over there?
Another reference to the idealized place they want to go to, "over there"
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Hold my hand, I’ll pull you through. Holdmy hand.
The young woman seems to have conflicted feelings: she personally cares for the boy, but logically she thinks that she should hate him
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But this one wants two hundred dollars morefrom each of us to take us across the border . .
This reminds me of coyotes (American-Mexican border)
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I tried to stop them. I tried . . . My father. Where is myfather
Post-trauma, boy seems to be having panic attack
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Chin deep in mud here. Can’t breathe
Boy is reliving moments
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My sister’s letter
The old woman is either disoriented/losing her mind or the letter is possibly her sister's, does she have a granddaughter?
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Leave me here. No use toanybody.
The old woman has given up and is prepared/wants to die.
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He holds onto her.
Despite the young woman's harsh words to the boy, he clings to her, trying to find sense of security
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orward.Always forward. Nothing else.
Coping mechanism = denial/repression of the past, trauma
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No food, no water, no heat. Adults squabbled overevery crust of bread
Is this a camp/prison? Did the old woman escape?
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Ifher grandfather knew that . . . If he knew that . . . Hewould . . . That is where I am going . . . Says she hatesbeing there. Hates me . . .
The old woman starts to spiral again, obviously in constant distress
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No pity. Hedeserves none.
Young woman turns bitter towards the boy = strong feelings of otherness.
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waited and waited
What is the significance of "waiting" in the play?
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But the one I know is Joseph.
Joseph = revealed to be The Captain
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Both narratives (the three vs. the Man speaking) are intensifying in suspense.
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He goes by many different names
Builds suspense
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You will be allright. God help us
Despite being verbally attacked by him, the old woman feels pity for the boy.
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The boy starts to assert himself and speaks viciously to the old woman
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Man's story is interjecting in the dialogue between the boy and the old woman, his recollection of The Captain and his experience on the boat
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The boy and man --> same person/identical experience
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Over there, you can work again.
Place where both women want to flee to, where they want to re-start their lives
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Madonna, ‘Just like a prayer . .
First clue to timeline: Late 80s?
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You are waiting for Joseph
The young boy somehow knows Joseph/knows that the two women are waiting for Joseph.
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Know you
The boy repeats "know you" to the younger woman --> Does she not recognize him or is he clinging to her as a mother figure?
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This is who you are.
Pendant is significant to the boy's cultural/political/religious/racial or ethnic identity
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I did what was necessary .
Forced to commit crime (kill?) against mother?
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YOUNGWOMAN
We learn more about the young woman AND the old woman's background Young woman:
- Has 3 yr old son
- Silent when asked where father is
Old woman:
- Grandchildren
- She got her youngest grandchild out of [camp/ghetto??] and is in school
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The YOUNGWOMANsits wrapped around the BOY—it’s almost an embrace.
The young woman is back to caring for the boy after she called him "dangerous"
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I’d say there were about thirty of us. Too many in a boatmade to carry half that number.
We begin to learn more about the man's story/journey
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You must let the life come out of you . . . Don’t stop.
Coping mechanism
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Fine. Do what you like. I won’t touch him.
Sudden change in young woman's demeanor, no longer fighting to keep the boy alive
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The BOYbegins to drown
Increasing intensity, darkness
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The women cannot be seen, danger in police seeing them.
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But what else could Ido? Except lie down and die?
The old woman is here because she had nothing to lose
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Joseph told meto wait here too .
Shift --> She originally said she knew no Joseph.
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It is like the young woman can only say/talk about "Joseph", must be someone of great significance to her
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This is the way it is and this is the way itwill always be. Tch tch tch . . .Silly old fool
Repetition of "This is the way..." and "Silly old fool"
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Barukh atah Adoshem. Elohanynu, melekh ha-olam . . .eh . . . melekh ha-olam . .
Prayer in a specific language
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The old woman, like the man, seems restless and troubled. She is re-living the past/memories of people in her life.
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the boy
He is not named in the play --> more of symbol?
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No oneknew. I never saw him, just flashes in the darkness.
Secret/mysterious friendship with other boy
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Why
Repetition of "why"
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Or ‘who?’ . . . No. We havethe same problem with ‘who’ . . . I need a blanket . . . I’m sorry.I’m not stalling, it’s just . . . (he shivers) I need a blanket. Thechill has not worn off my bones yet . . . Please . . . ?
Man seems restless, uncomfortable, troubled
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Two villages that had not spoken, had nottraded, had not laid eyes on the other for maybe fifty, ahundred, maybe two hundred years.
Strong tension between two communities
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Quotes (before the play begin) all suggest otherness/outsiders
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