The Piano Lesson by August Wilson (Journal Entry 2)
The character Boy Willie portrays seems more prominent than that of other characters during the in-class reading. Near the end of scene one, Boy Willie puts up a serious, manipulative, and argumentative attitude that causes most of the characters to change their tone in their dialogue. He puts up a situation where he wants to sell Bernice’s piano which will help in expanding his portion of the land he owns. Bernice is very resilient and resists all the manipulative bombardment from him plus his disrespect others for interrupting the peace and quiet of the neighborhood. When Avery enters the scene, he contrasts Boy Willie from his serene, peaceful, and reasonable behavior amongst people. When he enters, the author seems to gradually change the overall tone of the story from conflicting to plain and insightful.
Comment on Katie Jo-Dacey’s Blog:
I agree with one of your opinions regarding the amount of events that happened in so little a time frame of the story. The pace might have been set fast for a purpose, maybe? So far though, we are still in the exposition of the play so thing might turn out differently, or not.
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