When we read a novel, we know that is not real. However, we have to wonder why author created this. Author must want to express whether an idea or a kind of emotion. After I finished MLML,I realize there is something we cannot compel. Therefore that is my theme if I stage the whole play. I want it to be a tragic play.

I am going to divide the whole play into three parts. The first part is when T is in the village and how she takes care of Daniel. The second part is when she is on the way to the palace. And the last part is when she sees Daniel,but she cannot get him. T will show up on a tree and she will sing a happy sang. That is necessary to leave a expression of sunny to the audience. She is a girl who loves life so much. she has to look like a child singing on tree seems nothing can worry her. That is her major characteristic and also it is a contrast that after she knows Daniel is married. One day, she sitting on the tree as usual saw a car accident. She runs to it and finds a bleeding man,a handsome man. She uses hands cover her chest. She feels her heart never beating so fast like this time. She then realizes she falls in love. At this moment, all props have to be moved. light only focus on them, a pleasant girl holding a injured man. This shows how T feels, she only cares about this man right now. What happened near them does not matter. She carries Daniel into home. For making a huge difference, Daniel’s cloths need to be fancy. So it contrats with the poor situation in her house. In the novel, Daniel has slept for a very long time. However, I do not want to spend too much time on this. It is a good idea to play a time-passing background music to demonstrate a long time. And while music is playing, T can wipe the sweat on the Daniel’s face. T pats Daniel when he is having a nightmare. All this detailed action can show T loves Daniel deeply.

The second part is going to start with the ending of T’s recall when she holds her hand with hands What happened in the first part is from T’s recall. After Daniel goes back, T begins recalling from she first met him and how she looked after him again and again. And after the hundred times she recall, she decides to go find Daniel. When she is on the way, she meets several people, and all of them ask where you go and why. Her answer never changes. “I will go to that palace, I love the young man in the palace.” and after she answered. some are shake their heads and walks away,some are said “you are crazy”. However one day she meets a little girl and when the little girl hears the answer, she nods. T is so happy, because that is the first time she meets someone supports. She enters the city and walks through the people who wear totally different from her, and all the people look at her with a surprise facial expression. That is the second contrast between rich and poor.

When she finally gets close to the palace, she sees so many people are there. She asks why. People tells her a rich young man called Daniel is holding a wedding. She is shocked. Then she falls down, but nobody helps her. Lights gradually turns off and music gradually stops. The last scene is going to be same with the first scene, but there is only a tree without a sunny girl singing.

She is different since she sees word differently. She is a sunny girl, she can do anything for the love. She does not care fate or how other thinks. She is being herself and love she loves. In the village, she might be the only one thinks there is no difference between rich and poor. So she likes to wear bright-colored cloths but not like those villagers who wear grey normal cloths. One's attitude decides what she wears. TM thinks this word is full of possibilities. She enjoys trying new things. She might changes cloths everyday. Although not expensive or fancy,she created by herself. She uses small fruits like grapes to be earrings, she puts the wicker on her neck as a necklace. She is a shinning point among villagers not only how she wears differently but the positive attitude she has.

take home quiz

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.

There is an argument between TM and MB who represents the whole village about one's fate. For the girl she does not care about anything tries to stop her for instance fate. As long as she can feel the loud heartbeat when she heard the boy's name. She will not change her mind. Teenagers are full of energy, once they decide what to do, they are going to use whole power to meet their goals. They have no fear, same as they don't have any consideration. Or these considerations are not useful for them because it is just too complicated. What they think are quite simple, if love,be deep. However old people have different thoughts. MB doesn't understand why this girl insists loving an impossible man. Old people experienced too much things so they begin to believe fate. They did not lose their loving things but meanwhile they learn how to release. They know fate already help them decided. That is why they have an argument. They are holding two opposite belief living in this world.

5 scenes

1: poor and rich

In this world, there are poor people and rich people. They do not have any relationship.

p37 the first sentence

p10 on this island of mountains,forest````

p18 like most grands hommes`````

P50 It was not a bird, it is a carrier

2: Fear to God

P46 suddenly the shutters at the window flew open

P46 she leaped to her feet and faced to the demon

p32 But the Almighty did not want him yet.

P11 Agwe god of the sea

3: Rich people’s pride

p51 My son what have they done to you?

P52 He returned seven days later````

p34 Rich man’s son must go to big hosptal``

4 The girl’s love

P33 I promise to take care of this man

and another one I cannot find the page but I remember it describes how handsome this man is in her eyes.

4: poor people worried about what if this man died in this village. Police would not be nice to them. (They did not want to get on trouble)

The girl took care of the rich man.

(very gentle, even do masage)

Desiree Dieu Donne’s fears were only for her patient.

The old woman thought that the man’s illness threatened the sanity of the girl.

The man woke up. Hard for him to speak.

Heavy rain

The man almost died, Demon came.

5: A big bird carried a guy here. helecopter.

young man’s father came

(My son my son, what have they done to you? Thank God you are not yet dead.)

The fods had tried this girl. They tried to take toung Daniel away from her. She had defied them. She had held him back from evil.

Tonton Julian returned seven days later.

optimistic.

bad storms but we can buy seeds now.

1: Settings: on a island (dry)
    Rich VS Poor
    Gods: love, death, earth, water.
People living here wish rain because that is a dry land
( trees got shipped)
A girl usually sees car running on roads.

2: the girl goes to swimming after she ends working.
    Memory: when she was a child, she lived in a poor family (another worse village)
                   The whole family moved due to dry condition.
                   Her mom abonded her.
                   Someone picked her up.

3: A very big noise. Car accident.
    She saw a handsome man in the car. The man is insensible.
    She brings him back and takes care of him.
Others feared the man because they think he is higher class.