Blog 12/10



Throughout our group's scene we will be highlighting Lili's hope for Little Guy to achieve a better life. Her sole purpose in life is to see Little Guy achieve his full potential, and she is content with being the Night Women and dying as long as Little Guy does better than herself and his father.  However, an apparitional Guy appears in Lili's dream and tells her that he still wants Little Guy to work at the sugar mill so she can stop being the Night Women. Lili is dead against this and all she wants is for Little Guy to be educated. But the Angel comes to Little Guy in his dreams and presents the two options he has. Little Guy needs to be convinced that Education is the most important thing in his life. Later in his dreams, his father comes before him to tell his son that he too now believes that Little Guy should go to school.

Little Guy had a cross road in his life and the literary elements we are exploring are dreams, and the impact of them on reality and decisions that the character make for their futures. For staging, we are going to have blue lighting to show that the scene is a dream, and have regular  white lighting to show when the scene is in a real world setting. This is the best way we can show this transaction between the different states.  Lili and Little Guy turn to the Angel and Guy in search for answers. Turning to dreams for answers show an uncertainty of what the actual person wants. The decisions that each character made had repercussions and that is what made the decision so difficult. At the end of the scene, Lili commits suicide but is happy that Little Guy left Haiti.

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