Oral Presentation
Summary:
The original stories are both from the book Krik Krak. We combined A Wall of Fire Rising and The Night Women together as one story. I played the role of Lili in the Wall of Fire Rising, in which we based on the background information from A Wall of Fire Rising: saying that Guy has already died. Then, the Night Women comes right into it since the father left the house, the mother has no other job but to be a prostitute to support the son to study. This will be the background information for our story. Yet, the father then comes back to life as a form of ghost sneaked into the dream of Little Guy and Lili. Afterward, he tries Lili and Little Guy to guide his family through a critical decision in Little Guy's life.
Literary Analysis:
Themes:
Sacrifices: Lili as the main character always sacrifices for her son to study and to become educated. From the beginning of the story, she wants her son to do greater in the future, which is the opposite than what Guy wants him to be. After Guy died, she then has the responsibility to carry the family. For her son, she has to do it.
Love vs. Hate: In my interpretation, Lili is a character who both loves and hates her husband Guy. In the book, Although she doesn’t really care what Guy’s job, she still comfort his emotion. It’s hard to say that she never loved her husband in the story. She stills cares but a large amount of time is on Little Guy; the child needs more time to take care, to hold. As a result, she might ignore her husband indeliberately, but she knows her husband will never leave her alone; the family will be like this forever. However, once he had ended his life, love and hatred spread over Lili’s head, questioning why and how could he ever left her.
Lili, Guy, Little Guy, and the Angel
The funny part in our interpretation is we add the role of Angel; we utilized the imagination from the Night Women story since Little Guy would like to see the angel in person, so we create this character. Moreover, the angel represents a figure of god, and niceness in the hope.
Lili- Guy(wife and husband)- Love and hate at the same time
As I read the book, I feel like A Wall of Fire Rising and the Night Women connect with each other because that's what Lili's situation will be like after the death of Guy. Lili, as the backbone of the family, has to keep the family going. Lili is a character that puts her full attention to her son. In her mind, Little Guy's successful in the future will be the most important thing in her whole life. In the story, she doesn't care if Guy is on desperation or is losing his hope, the only thing she ever wants to keep is Little Guy. She doesn't care if Guy is scrubbing the latrines or not; she tries to console him by saying it's honest work. Yet, when Guy suggests her to put Little Guy on the list. Lili is mad and imploring Guy not to ruin the boy's future. Lili believes that one day her boy Little Guy can make her proud, so she wants him to be educated. Moreover, she is tougher than the character in Night Women because she puts a lot of pressure on Guy so that Guy jumps out of the balloon. However, we tried to imagine the lives that Lili and Little Guy had without her husband: the lives of the Night Women. Nevertheless, by using the Night Women story, we ruminate that the father will come with the angel to convince Little Guy to work at the Sugar Mill for the original purpose. And this action is obviously not being accepted by Lili because she thinks that there is more successful in studying rather than just working for the family. Lili's husband, Guy, had died already, so her full hope can only be converted into Little Guy. Also, I want to highlight the braveness and stubbornness of Lili. All of her believes is in Little Guy; she thinks that only if Little Guy listens to her, he can be the man he wanted.
Hope vs. Hopeless: Hope is strongly emphasized in the story as well. When Guy has died, Lili is hopeless. It’s her son who actually supports her to go through life. However, as her son wants to pursue his dreams to go to school in America, her life is over since she doesn’t know what to do next.
Characters
Lili-Angel. they stand together since the angel is on Lili’s side.
Guy-Little Guy Guy and Little stand together since Little Guy hesitates on whether he should go work at the Sugar Mill or not.
Relationship:
Lili-Little Guy(mother and son)- a good relationship
Adaptation:
Performance:
I, as the combination of the Night Women and Lili, am a really complicated character; she loves her husband Guy; yet, she hates him at the same time, blaming him for leaving the family alone. The contraction in Lili is really hard since she is a kind lady, but at the same time, she is a tough woman as well. Moreover, she loves her son more than everything. After her husband died, she puts everything to her son, Little Guy. I think I differentiated my traits in the performances. There were a lot of levels in my performance. In the beginning, I started with a soft voice to expose my love toward my son; every time he asked something, I responded with a gentle voice, patted his back and looked at him gently. However, when Guy is there, I will have a tougher voice to him since the feeling is changing: blaming, loving, hating all wave into Lili's traits. I performed it well with the changes. Moreover, when Josh is actually there, I sobbed to show my emotion; sadness, regretting come right into our performance. However, I still think I need to add more emotions when I saw Josh; I think I need to cry more to show my feeling toward him. Also, we added our volume so the audience can hear us clearly. Although the beginning is smooth and soft, we still used our stage voice to perform our scenes. In addition, we used the props and set pieces to set up the scenes. We utilized the triangles to pretend as a wall between Little Guy and Lili. Lili doesn't want her son to know her Night Women's job, so she tried to hide from him. As a result, we have the black side face Lili; it's to show the darkness of her and the unknown side of Lili. And Little Guy, as the positive and innocent boy, will be always live on the brightest side. We showed that with the use of the triangles and I think it works pretty well. Also, Lili and Little Guy's bed are on the center stage, further emphasizing the important events going on over there.
Evaluate:
I remember a scene that is not that good. When I pushed Josh away to show my anger and my sadness, I actually pushed him and came back to my original place. That seems somewhat artificial and embarrassing. Also, we must get into our character as we read the lines, feeling the same as the character feels. I still didn’t act the way I think I must act; maybe I should be more angry and disappointed to Guy as I cried even harder. However, I am so nervous on the stage, so it only has the madness left.
The original stories are both from the book Krik Krak. We combined A Wall of Fire Rising and The Night Women together as one story. I played the role of Lili in the Wall of Fire Rising, in which we based on the background information from A Wall of Fire Rising: saying that Guy has already died. Then, the Night Women comes right into it since the father left the house, the mother has no other job but to be a prostitute to support the son to study. This will be the background information for our story. Yet, the father then comes back to life as a form of ghost sneaked into the dream of Little Guy and Lili. Afterward, he tries Lili and Little Guy to guide his family through a critical decision in Little Guy's life.
Literary Analysis:
Themes:
Sacrifices: Lili as the main character always sacrifices for her son to study and to become educated. From the beginning of the story, she wants her son to do greater in the future, which is the opposite than what Guy wants him to be. After Guy died, she then has the responsibility to carry the family. For her son, she has to do it.
Love vs. Hate: In my interpretation, Lili is a character who both loves and hates her husband Guy. In the book, Although she doesn’t really care what Guy’s job, she still comfort his emotion. It’s hard to say that she never loved her husband in the story. She stills cares but a large amount of time is on Little Guy; the child needs more time to take care, to hold. As a result, she might ignore her husband indeliberately, but she knows her husband will never leave her alone; the family will be like this forever. However, once he had ended his life, love and hatred spread over Lili’s head, questioning why and how could he ever left her.
Lili, Guy, Little Guy, and the Angel
The funny part in our interpretation is we add the role of Angel; we utilized the imagination from the Night Women story since Little Guy would like to see the angel in person, so we create this character. Moreover, the angel represents a figure of god, and niceness in the hope.
Lili- Guy(wife and husband)- Love and hate at the same time
As I read the book, I feel like A Wall of Fire Rising and the Night Women connect with each other because that's what Lili's situation will be like after the death of Guy. Lili, as the backbone of the family, has to keep the family going. Lili is a character that puts her full attention to her son. In her mind, Little Guy's successful in the future will be the most important thing in her whole life. In the story, she doesn't care if Guy is on desperation or is losing his hope, the only thing she ever wants to keep is Little Guy. She doesn't care if Guy is scrubbing the latrines or not; she tries to console him by saying it's honest work. Yet, when Guy suggests her to put Little Guy on the list. Lili is mad and imploring Guy not to ruin the boy's future. Lili believes that one day her boy Little Guy can make her proud, so she wants him to be educated. Moreover, she is tougher than the character in Night Women because she puts a lot of pressure on Guy so that Guy jumps out of the balloon. However, we tried to imagine the lives that Lili and Little Guy had without her husband: the lives of the Night Women. Nevertheless, by using the Night Women story, we ruminate that the father will come with the angel to convince Little Guy to work at the Sugar Mill for the original purpose. And this action is obviously not being accepted by Lili because she thinks that there is more successful in studying rather than just working for the family. Lili's husband, Guy, had died already, so her full hope can only be converted into Little Guy. Also, I want to highlight the braveness and stubbornness of Lili. All of her believes is in Little Guy; she thinks that only if Little Guy listens to her, he can be the man he wanted.
Hope vs. Hopeless: Hope is strongly emphasized in the story as well. When Guy has died, Lili is hopeless. It’s her son who actually supports her to go through life. However, as her son wants to pursue his dreams to go to school in America, her life is over since she doesn’t know what to do next.
Characters
Lili-Angel. they stand together since the angel is on Lili’s side.
Guy-Little Guy Guy and Little stand together since Little Guy hesitates on whether he should go work at the Sugar Mill or not.
Relationship:
Lili-Little Guy(mother and son)- a good relationship
Adaptation:
Performance:
I, as the combination of the Night Women and Lili, am a really complicated character; she loves her husband Guy; yet, she hates him at the same time, blaming him for leaving the family alone. The contraction in Lili is really hard since she is a kind lady, but at the same time, she is a tough woman as well. Moreover, she loves her son more than everything. After her husband died, she puts everything to her son, Little Guy. I think I differentiated my traits in the performances. There were a lot of levels in my performance. In the beginning, I started with a soft voice to expose my love toward my son; every time he asked something, I responded with a gentle voice, patted his back and looked at him gently. However, when Guy is there, I will have a tougher voice to him since the feeling is changing: blaming, loving, hating all wave into Lili's traits. I performed it well with the changes. Moreover, when Josh is actually there, I sobbed to show my emotion; sadness, regretting come right into our performance. However, I still think I need to add more emotions when I saw Josh; I think I need to cry more to show my feeling toward him. Also, we added our volume so the audience can hear us clearly. Although the beginning is smooth and soft, we still used our stage voice to perform our scenes. In addition, we used the props and set pieces to set up the scenes. We utilized the triangles to pretend as a wall between Little Guy and Lili. Lili doesn't want her son to know her Night Women's job, so she tried to hide from him. As a result, we have the black side face Lili; it's to show the darkness of her and the unknown side of Lili. And Little Guy, as the positive and innocent boy, will be always live on the brightest side. We showed that with the use of the triangles and I think it works pretty well. Also, Lili and Little Guy's bed are on the center stage, further emphasizing the important events going on over there.
Evaluate:
I remember a scene that is not that good. When I pushed Josh away to show my anger and my sadness, I actually pushed him and came back to my original place. That seems somewhat artificial and embarrassing. Also, we must get into our character as we read the lines, feeling the same as the character feels. I still didn’t act the way I think I must act; maybe I should be more angry and disappointed to Guy as I cried even harder. However, I am so nervous on the stage, so it only has the madness left.
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