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In this book I noticed there are many contrasts between two opposites things. The most significant pair is rich and poor. The main girl character called Ti Moune lives in a poor area and people in this village have no relationship with rich people. Or they don’t even want to have any relationship with them because they believe their fate. They just want to live normally  like how their last generation live.

The scene I choose is from chapter five when there is a big black bird coming to this village. When I continue, I realize that is the name of helicopter for poor. Because they never seen this before. Author uses exaggeration to show the huge difference between rich and poor. This can also demonstrates poor and rich do not negotiate. These two types of people living in two different worlds. Something locks their relationship, which is fate or the experience from previous generation.

From long time ago, rich and poor stopped their relationship. As time moves, they both have something grow in minds. For rich it is called proud. For poor it is called self-abasement. After the helicopter landed, the rich man shows an attitude that seems each one of them in this village owe his money. He enters cabin and sees his son lying there,but he asks a very rude question. “what have they done to you?” That sounds terrible for poor. This question hurts everyone because poor are trying their best to take care of this young man. And as a result this father judges on if they hurt their son or not. That is a important symbol of rich’s proud. They deeply do not trust poor. If I were one of the poor, I would be angry and asks them to get out of the cabin as quickly as possible. However, nobody among poor has this kind of reaction. That is what self-abasement done to them.

When I stage this scene, I would like to choose black as background color because it takes place after the storm. This book has many myth stuffs because there are four Gods. So villager can believe what they see, even a giant black bird carries a person. When “the bird” landed, everyone’s attention should be focus on the bird so it is necessary to have a stream of light on the bird. We have to use any ways to build a fancy impression of rich. Like what I said prebiously, it is important to show rich’s proud. While rich gets off the helicopter,he does not to do much facial expression. Actors can act like “nothing makes me suprise”. Oppositily, poor is shocked. That is the first time seeing a helicopter. For costumes, it is a good idea to ask poor wear similar clothes because they do not have money or energy to care. Anyway the point is to let audience figure out who is rich who are poor by the first sight. For rich’s scripts it does not have to be long. 1(nothing to talk about with poor, they are living in different world),2(they do not respect them) These are two possible reasons. What poor say usually follows rich’s question. They never have conversation with rich so they don’t know how to start. Their impression should be like obedient.