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  1. Nov 2021
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    1. But we can't, not, if we if we stop buying lines, the

      I don't like how Matt just heard an incident where Jenny had came across a man that made her feel uncomfortable because he claimed they "used his line". And wanted to get money out of Jenny for using a line that wasn't even his. Yet he insists to keep buying lines and the fact that he said that he has also come across people that Jenny had come across and claiming to stop using certain lines because other people own them sounds stressful. I agree with Gibson, it's better for them to buy lines from people they trust and won't use the "No you can't use that, it's my line" excuse on them and they can continue on their work.

    2. Until finally the generators will break down, because things always break down, but at that point

      I feel as Matt is looking way into this plant. Also, if he does keep refueling it, I'm pretty sure it won't break down, it will keep working like any other technology will, for example it will be like charging your phone. When you charge your phone, it doesn't automatically blow up the battery will just not be the best. It also seems to me that Matt has some type of obsession to this plant for some reason but he also seems to be attached to this plant. Especially since Matt seems to want to be associated with the plant which is why he wants to dedicate time with it.

    1. How unattractive you’ve become,Petya, how you’ve aged

      I don't understand why throughout the play they seem to talk about Petya's age or how old he has gotten? Is there a reason they bring up him looking older or how much his physical appearance has changed. Usually if someone's appearance has changed drastically in a play it would have to be the main characters but I don't know I don't really see Petya as a main character I see him more as a side character in my opinion. I could be wrong but I don't know much of the character which is why I consider him a side character.

    2. I’m leaving . . . I’m leaving . . . Oh, mama, thepeople at home have nothing to eat, and you gave him a goldpiece

      I agree with Varya if Lyubov is broke and doesn't have money I don't get why she gives it out to people like the drunk man so he can go away. Also knowing that her daughters have nothing to eat at home it would have been better to keep the money she has left for herself and her family. Also the audacity she has to ask someone else for money just because she gave hers away is low because no one told her too give away her money. This also shows how careless Lyubov is about their own things but when she is in need of something she uses other to get them.

    1. Korean 1 unfurls and scuttles stage left. Korean 3 unfurls and scuttles stage left. Korean-American scuttles onstage wearing a traditional Korean dress over her jeans and T-shirt and scuttles stage left.

      I like that the playwright is descriptive and I'm able to know where the actors are coming out from like stage left. Like in the other play I believe it limits the freedom of a director but also gives them certain commands that the playwright wanted to be in this play. I would also like to point out that from this line to 2/3 of pg 64 it seems to chaotic and there seems to be a lot of violence happening in that small section. I don't know how the audience would take it just because there would be so much to look at.

    2. I would wonder how I ever let that face anywhere near me. And I wouldn't he able to look at you or even speak to you when I got home because it would he like I was sit-ting across from this monster, this repulsive monster that might want to touch me at some point and then I would have to push it away

      It feels as if white person 1 is hiding something because of the long explanation the white person 1 is giving to white person 2 for a break up. Also noting that her excuse sounds like it came out of no where, like wasn't white person 1 just talking about white person 2's intelligence as at the same level and white person 2 and then suddenly brought up white person 2's nose. Anyways this confrontation between the two seems like it could be two teenagers just because it sounds so stupid and immature for it to be two adults.

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    1. Our word of honor: split the silver dollars with us and you'll be safe. We're friends, right? LAO LIN AND LAO CHEN: Yeah! Friends!

      I'm a little confused with this part because Wu Xiangzi wanted to get rid of the silver dollars mainly because it's dangerous to have in Beijing but then Lao Chen doesn't want to get rid of the silver dollars. Both then get into a disagreement and come across Song Enzi who ask for silver dollars, I wonder why can't Wu Xiangzi give his silvers to Song since he was okay about getting rid of it and Lao stays with his. Also why does does it seem like Song is threatening Wu and Lao for silver dollars and if they give it to them they will be safe then claim they are friends?

    2. Aren't I lucky? WA'.NG L!FA: Yes, very lucky indeed!

      They seem to mention luck quite a lot which makes me think they strongly believe luck is very important and that it will bring them some type of good fortune. As of right now since they are in the lost with the teashop they are holding their hopes and basing it off luck. It seems to me that luck and fortune both reassure the people that their problems will slowly fade and get better as time goes on.

    1. Do not reject my offer. I ask you to consider it carefully. It's a matter of life and death.

      I find it funny that the leader was being cruel with Melissa a second ago and now needs her help. The leader is manipulating Melissa into helping him because he's saying things like if you don't do it everyone will die making it seem as it was Melissa's fault. Also using that method of think about it or consider it carefully making her think about the outcomes if she doesn't do it. even from the start the leader mentioned her arrival cause this mess making her more responsible into having to take the offer.

    2. ut, whatever happens, I've no regrets about the way I've lived my life. My loyal companions, I have something crazy to say to you. I love you as you've loved me.

      I'm so confused about these characters in this scene like who are they because they mention Melissa so, I suppose they know her but they don't mention the type of relationship they had with her. They also go on about loving one another and how both will die because of some type of attack? Honestly I'm trying to understand the significance of this conversation between these four side characters apart from letting us know that are being attacked. What is possibly throwing me off is the sudden introduction to these characters.

  4. Oct 2021
    1. SEYMOUR OLD BOY. THOUGH IT MEANS YOU'LL BE BROKE AGAIN AND UNEMPLOYED, IT'S THE ONLY SOLUTION, IT CAN'T BE A VOIDED THE VEGETABLE MUST BE DESTROYED! (Beat. He looks up.) BUT THEN ... THERE'S AUDREY, LOVELY AUDREY, IF LIFE WERE TAWDRY AND IMPOVERISHED AS BEFORE SHE MIGHT NOT LIKE ME SHE MIGHT NOT WANT ME WlTHOUT MY PLANT, SHE MIGHT NOT LOVE ME AN

      I find it interesting that we get to see Seymour's inner thoughts and we can see him contemplating whether or not to take the offers on appearing on T.V. As we see he does seem like he doesn't want to take the offers because he doesn't want to keep bring the plant as it keeps hurting and eating people. Like all men in love he brings up Audrey and also considers if he doesn't take the offer she won't like, want, or love Seymour. I honestly though he wasn't going to take the offer because how bad he felt about people getting killed by the plant. Turns out his love for Audrey is stronger which led him to sign off the offers.

    2. A hundred dollars-worth? Yessir. Right away, sir. Audrey, my darling, kindly fetch this gentleman one hundred dollars worth of our very finest red American Beauty roses! (AUDREY presents the pathetic bundle to the CUSTOMER.

      I love how Mushnik tries to please the costumer by saying they will give the costumer the FINEST roses but then when it's presented to the costumes it's just a bunch of dead roses. I was surprised that the costumer didn't return the roses and asked for a refund because the costume was paying double the price or they could have easily bought the Audrey two plant that caught their eye. What I'm still questioning is if the costumer found the Audrey two plant interesting and kept constantly asking about it why didn't they buy it?

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    1. It is myself I have never met, whose face is pasted on the underside of my mind

      I feel as the character forgot how they were since they have been depressed for quiet some time. Now that they are free they are going to try and find themselves. I feel like the face on the underside of the character's mind is them but with depression and they help themselves on the underside of their mind probably to not come in contact with that version of the character ever again as they have gone through so much and seems to be over and done with being depressed. It seems as the character want to turn to a new page and basically start over.

    2. Are you? (A silence.) Or are you? (A long silence.) – Do you despise all unhappy people or is it me specifically? – I don't despise you. It's not your fault. You're ill. – I don't think so. – No?

      The reading so far sounds interesting. I'm wondering how this part specifically would be performed as there is a lot of back and forth happening. Especially since it seems as this conversation is happening all throughout the character's head. Another thing I seem to find interesting is the character realizes that they are ill and don't blame themselves for being unhappy. As to my understanding people who are usually ill don't come to the conclusion that they are ill and blame themselves. At the same time she probably came to this conclusion because it seems as the character is getting help by mentioning doctors checking on him/her.

    1. CORYPHAEUS: I'll make her quit! (He goes toward Creon's effigy, stops midway.) These delays will be regretted! (wearing the robe) Lock her up! Leave her in that tomb. If she wishes to die there, let her die. If she wishes to live hidden under this roof, let her live. We will be cleared of her death, and she will have no contact with the living.

      This makes me think Coryphaeus is so mean towards Antinous but if I have this correct he is just upset with her while she is also upset with him which is why both are lashing out at each other. As well as say things that make this brother sister relationship toxic for each other just by their arguing and back and forth with each other. Also the constant mention and obsession Coryphaeus has of the law and how Coryphaeus seems like an anti-feminist because he says her won't take orders from a women and it sets back to older times.

    2. If only she could have kept quiet At the corpse of her brother not tarried To Haemon she could have been married.

      I'm a bit confused with these lines like I'm aware they are talking about Antinous but it sound like some threat or as if she was killed by Coryphaeus. It also says that if only she could have kept quite "to Haemon she could have been married" is she being forced upon a marriage by Coryphaeus or is it that Antinous fell in love with a man and generously want to get married? Also the fact that there was a mention of a corpse really sprung the thought that someone could was been killed or harmed.

    1. He wishes that the hair on his Mamluk slave's head would grow quickly until it would become like the braids of a woman's hair. But, every day he would leave the chamber in a morbid mood while holding the box of sneezewort in his hand. He leaves the chamber to wait for a new day to come .

      Honestly the first thing I thought about this idea was that the hair probably won't grow in time. Especially since he is going to be bald. Like Vizier is worried about time yet he didn't think this plan was going to be time consuming. Hair take a couple of weeks to grow maybe even months since he wants it to be long enough to braid. The fact that he would visit Jaber and check on his hair everyday and trying to see if it grew a whole 2-3 inches is just funny to me.

    2. (he buys several loafs of bread, puts them in his bag, and then sadly and reproachfully looks at the customers in the cafe. While leaving he addresses the customers): By God! This is not the 1-.----right way to safety.

      This makes me questions if the customers aren't taking the situation at the level the fourth man is or if the forth man is going to the extreme? Just the fourth man repeating "this is not the right way to safety" to the customers and them just proceeding to handle the situation as they usually do is alarming. I feel as the fourth man has to know something more that he isn't willing to share out with the customers. At the same time sitting at home with your windows closed doesn't seem like an effective solution for the situation. I feel like the customers should have listened to the fourth man and maybe he would have explained his reasoning for why being home is not the right way to safety.

  6. Sep 2021
    1. here lies Galy Gay, a man who was shot. He set out to buy a small fish one morning, had acquired a large elephant by that evening and was shot in the course of the same night.

      I'm confused by the fact that Galy got another man killed and said it was him. Then spoke at his own funeral, so does that mean he is legally Jips. I'm also questioning if he will ever return to his wife because I'm pretty sure he wants to stay in the army. Especially since he got a position there and is getting to do what the other soldiers are getting to do. Another thing I want to touch on is why did Uriah go against Galy, expose him and want to have him killed? Was it all planned because by this part they both seem to be fine with each other and don't mention it.

    2. So it.would help if you would put on one of our uniforms. ¥ ou' d only need to be present :"hen ,they num-ber off the new arrivals and answer to his name. Just to keep the record straight.

      This is exactly what I was thinking they would do. I feel as this is a solution most people think of in films, or plays when someone is missing. Usually replace them with another person until the other individual comes back. I wonder if the other soldier would recognized that Jip doesn't sound the same when Begbick answers to his Jip's name or the sergeants get close enough to see their faces and call Begbick an intruder or imposter. For some reason I feel making Begbick be Jip's won't be as easy as it seems and they will likely get caught by the sergeant.

    1. See dis! Here's a pictur' I found stickin' in that yar telescope machine, sar! Look, sar! GEORGE. A photographic plate. \X'hat's this, eh? Two forms! The child-'tis he! Dead-and above him -Ah! Ah! Jacob M'Closky, 'twas you murdered that

      I feel a bit confused here because from my understanding I could have sworn that after Wahnotee found out Paul was dead, out of anger he hit the camera and broke it leaving no evidence on who killed Paul. But then Pete says he has picture coming from a telescope? And in these two pictures you can see Paul's body and Jacob M'Closky above him showing that Jacob was the one who ended up killing Paul and leaving Wohnotee not-guilty. Although I still am unable to understand if the camera ended up getting destroyed in this scene. Also that fact that no one mentioned the camera they just mention the photos.

    2. Zoe, this knowledge brings no revolt to my heart. I love you nonetheless. We can leave this country, and go far away where none can know. ZOE. And your aunt, she who from infancy treated me with such fondness, she who, as you said, has most reason to spurn me, can she forget what I am? Will she gladly see you wedded to the child of her husband's slave? No! She would revolt from it as all but you would!

      To me this seems so hectic and at the same time how can you love someone from the same family as you? And the fact that he says it doesn't revolt him knowing that Zoe is technically his sister is so strange and disgusting. Also that fact that he is willing to run away with Zoe and get married but once they do they won't mention their relationship other than husband and wife. Also knowing just a second ago Zoe had no interest in George until he said what he was feeling and she hadn't brought up Dora until after both had made their confessions about falling for each other.

    1. Alison, your father has had affairs with men. (A beat.) MEDIUM ALISON. What? HELEN. I don't know how he hasn't been caught or exposed. There was the thing with Roy.

      I knew there was something going one between Bruce and Roy by the way Bruce was talking to Roy. Especially the ending part of their conversation where Bruce had asked Roy to unbutton his shirt to get something. I feel like Helen is causing more pain to herself by knowing about the affairs and telling her daughter about it and not confronting Bruce about any of it. Especially since it has been going on for 4 years now and there was proof of the time her had his midnight trips or the body lice. Also Helen talking about Bruce not getting exposed but her wanting him to like she totally can do that because she has seem him late mysterious late at night and have something physically on his body like the body lice.

    2. And he killed himself. And I. .. became a lesbian cartoonist.

      For a person that is first reading this play, Alison saying this out of nowhere seems strange. Personally I feel as Alison is still trying to cope with the fact that her father isn't with her anymore. Especially since she keeps looking back on her memories with her father. I noticed that she would spend more time with her father than her mother which makes me wonder if her relationship with mother was far different from her father's. Also since she only mentions her mother once this far in the play but isn't very descriptive of her or says anything really relevant about her mother. I also wonder if her father found out that her daughter was into girls when he was alive or she had come out when her father killed himself.

    1. I can't sleep. When I close my eyes everything just goes round and round, and I hear the fiddles. On and on, on and on. And it speaks out of the walls. Don't you hear anything?

      I feel as if this shows us that Woyzeck is struggling to be sane. As he feels everything spinning when he closes his eye and he mentions that he also hears things coming from the wall. As this does give some type of inside look on what he is dealing with it is unclear to me what could have trigger this feeling Woyzeck is going through. As he keep saying on and on and on and on I feel like Woyzeck knowing what the "wall" are telling him might have some kind of anger deep inside of him and this is his mind telling him your have to express it like the way animals express whatever they are feeling.

    2. You can't set a fellow like me in the world on just morals, a man is flesh and blood as well.

      From his harsh words to people I feel as if Woyzeck is real with everyone and doesn't want to sugarcoat anything. He rather be straight up with people then kiss their ass and say that they will make it through life. I feel as he knows more and isn't afraid to call a person an idiot if they aren't in line with him. I feel as Woyzeck may seem mean in the beginning but I feel as he wants to hear what is true and not words that are suppose to get him through whatever situation he is in at the moment. I feel as he rather so and attack the problem and not run away from them. He also like to see what is in front of him in terms of what is possible and realistic for him.

  7. Aug 2021
    1. I’m sorry to see you sunk so low that you’re far beneathyour cook. It’s as if I was watching the flowers being lashed to piecesby the autumn rain and turning into mud

      I'm a little confused it seems to me that Jean was just playing with Miss Julies feelings even though he had confessed to her that she was his first love. But now that both expressed their love and were willing to escape and be together he can't show his love unless they are out of the building/castle and he is in need of more but she won't look for someone which is why he start to badmouth her. He calls her "whore" and saying that she " sunk so low." I feel as it was Jean's dram of being in an upper statues, he thinks she is silly for leaving everything for someone like him that can't offer her the same thing she already has.

    2. Order?—As a gentleman you should keep your lady company,I think

      This part shows me the Miss Julie seem desperate because she didn't want to sit alone so she ordered Jean to sit with her. As well as for drinking, she was in the mood of drinking wine and told Jean to get her a glass and while he's there he should serve himself a glass too. Although Jean told her that he's not a fan of drinking she mentioned the thing of a gentlemen should always keep a women company. Therefore if he doesn't accompany her with a glass he is not considered a gentleman. Which to me even though Miss Julie is held in this higher platform than the other characters so far it seem as she was being a bit too much.