Read the excerpt from Trifles . SHERIFF: Nothing here but kitchen things. ( The County Attorney, after again looking around the kitchen, opens the door of a cupboard closet. He gets up on a chair and looks on a shelf. Pulls his hand away, sticky .) COUNTY ATTORNEY: Here’s a nice mess. (The women draw nearer .) How would an audio recording of this excerpt help establish the setting of the play?
Read the following scene from The Little Foxes . BEN: ( very jovial ) I suppose I have been. And why not? Horace has done Hubbard Sons many a good turn. Why shouldn’t I be anxious to help him now? REGINA: ( laughs ) Help him! Help him when you need him, that’s what you mean. BEN: What a woman you married, Horace. ( Laughs awkwardly when HORACE does not answer ) Well, then I’ll make it quick. You know what I’ve been telling you for years. How I’ve always said that every one of us little Southern businessmen had great things—( Extends his arm )—right beyond our finger tips. It’s been my dream: my dream to make those fingers grow longer: I’m a lucky man, Horace, a lucky man. To dream and to live to get what you’ve dreamed of. That’s my idea of a lucky man. ( Looks at his fingers as his arm drops slowly ) For thirty years I’ve cried bring the cotton mills to the cotton. (HORACE opens medicine bottle ). Well, finally I got up nerve to go to Marshall Company in Chicago. What would be similar about a stage and a film interpretation of this scene?
Read the excerpt from The Little Foxes . REGINA: ( to BEN, triumphantly ) Exactly. ( To HORACE) So I did a little bargaining for you and convinced my brothers they weren’t the only Hubbards who had a business sense. HORACE: Did you have to convince them of that? How little people know about each other! ( Laughs ) But you’ll know better about Regina next time, eh, Ben? (BEN, REGINA, HORACE laugh together. OSCAR’S face is angry ) Now let’s see. We’re getting a bigger share. ( Looking at OSCAR) Who’s getting less? Which of the following themes does this reinforce?
Read the excerpt from The Little Foxes . REGINA: ( to BEN) Horace would like to talk to you now. HORACE: Horace would not like to talk to you now. I am very tired, Regina— REGINA: ( comes to him ) Please. You’ve said we’ll try our best with each other. I’ll try. Really, I will. Please do this for me now. You will see what I’ve done while you’ve been away. How I watched your interests. ( Laughs gaily ) And I’ve done very well too. But things can’t be delayed any longer. Everything must be settled this week— (HORACE sits down. BEN enters. OSCAR has stayed in the dining room, his head turned to watch them. LEO is pretending to read the newspaper ) Now you must tell Horace all about it. Only be quick because he is very tired and must go to bed. (HORACE is looking up at her. His face hardens as she speaks ) But I think your news will be better for him than all the medicine in the world. BEN: ( looking at HORACE) It could wait. Horace may not feel like talking today. REGINA: What an old faker you are! You know it can’t wait. You know it must be finished this week. You’ve been just as anxious for Horace to get here as I’ve been. What does this excerpt emphasize about the character of Regina?
Read the excerpt from “In Response to Executive Order 9066.” If it helps any, I will tell you I have always felt funny using chopsticks and my favorite food is hot dogs. Read the excerpt from “Mericans.” We cannot spend our allowance on fried cookies or Familia Burrón comic books or those clear cone-shaped suckers that make everything look like a rainbow when you look through them. Which theme best describes the two excerpts?
Read the excerpt from “In Response to Executive Order 9066.” I have always felt funny using chopsticks and my favorite food is hot dogs. Read the excerpt from “Mericans.” Ladies don’t come to church dressed in pants. And everybody knows men aren’t supposed to wear shorts. Which best describes the common idea in the excerpts?
The poem “In Response to Executive Order 9066” and the short story “Mericans” are both narrated by
Read the excerpt from “In Response to Executive Order 9066.” I’ve packed my galoshes and three packets of tomato seeds. Denise calls them love apples. My father says where we’re going they won’t grow. Read the excerpt from “Mericans.” She’s so busy taking Junior’s picture, she doesn’t notice me and Keeks. “Hey, Michele, Keeks. You guys want gum?” “But you speak English!” “Yeah,” my brother says, “we’re Mericans.” Which of the statements best describes both excerpts?
The fact that women often feel pressured to conform to society’s expectations is a common feminist theme found within literature. As this theme appears within part two of Trifles , which pair of symbols best strengthens this theme?
Which piece of dialogue from The Chaste Adventures of Joseph: A Comedy most reveals Madam Potiphar’s motives for wanting her husband to replace his secretary, Joseph?
Read the following scene from The Chaste Adventures of Joseph: A Comedy . THE LADY: Such a lovely house, Madam Potiphar!—But what is this quiet room? Your husband's study? MADAM POTIPHAR: ( coming in ) Oh, this is nothing—merely the room of one of the slaves. Come, dear Cousin Asenath, and I will show you the garden. The pomegranates are just beginning to blossom. ASENATH: The room of a slave? Indeed! He seems to be an educated person! How would a stage interpretation differ from an audio production of this scene?
In The Chaste Adventures of Joseph: A Comedy , the garden outside the Potiphar’s home symbolizes growth and natural beauty, and it highlights the
Read the following scene from The Inheritors . FRED JORDAN'S cell. Slowly, at the end left unchalked, as for a door, she goes in. Her hand goes up as against a wall; looks at her other hand, sees it is out too far, brings it in, giving herself the width of the cell. Walks its length, halts, looks up .) And one window—too high up to see out. ( In the moment she stands there, she is in that cell; she is all the people who are in those cells . EMIL JOHNSON [who works at the courthouse], appears from outside. ) MADELINE: ( stepping out of the cell door, and around it ) Hello, Emil. EMIL: How are you, Madeline? How do, Mr Morton. (IRA barely nods and does not turn ... EMIL turns back to MADELINE) Well, I'm just from the courthouse. Looks like you and I might take a ride together, Madeline. You come before the Commissioner at four. A possible disadvantage to watching this scene, as opposed to reading it silently, is that viewers are
In Glaspell’s The Inheritors , which quotation best supports the feminist theme that women often feel a desire to control their own fate?
Read the excerpt from The Inheritors . EMIL: Guess you don't know much about the Espionage Act or you'd go and make a little friendly call on your uncle. When your case comes to trial—and Judge Lenon may be on the bench—( whistles ) He's one fiend for Americanism. What best describes the effect of the word fiend in this excerpt?
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