https://padlet.com/Jecan/pl Made with a dash of wit en-us 2016-07-27 15:07:04 UTC 2016-07-27 16:05:30 UTC hello@padlet.com Jecan https://padlet.com/Jecan/pl/wish/117075573 Work time: 25 minutes

What to do:
1. The general context of the play. 
- Identify the time period and present an elaborate analysis of the historical context.

2. Analyze and interpret the characters in the scene assigned to your group.

3. Interpret the themes of the play through the concepts of liminality and play.

]]> 2016-07-27 15:07:43 UTC https://padlet.com/Jecan/pl/wish/117075573 https://padlet.com/Jecan/pl/wish/117075831 1. Pittsburgh, early 1930's .Jim Crow Laws, share cropping, movement of blacks to the north, Great Depression. Large wealth disparity between blacks and whites. Tragic, comic tone. 
2. Wining Boy- We don't meet, only comes back when he's broke, gambling + piano
Berniece- similar to Bertha, very straightforward, sentimental with Piano, clings to past, 
Doaker- diplomatic, uncle, makes relatives pay for hospitality - fairly kind
Maretha-- represents mother's desire for a better future, pretty, innocence, raises by the book, sees mother's standoffishness towards Boy Willie
Boy Willie- troublemaker, representation of youth
Lyman- obsessed with women
Avery- wants to be a preacher, "three hobos", good job working on skyscraper, dream space-- liminal
--- willie and lyman tend to dig at eachother  
Sutter- obese son of former slave owner
3. Railroad - symbol of declining age
Yellow Dog ghosts- represent unfinished business 
Piano- tied to heritage, let go of the past or hold on
Watermelons-- stolen?
Well?
Three hobos- joke
Holy ghost



]]> 2016-07-27 15:11:52 UTC https://padlet.com/Jecan/pl/wish/117075831 https://padlet.com/Jecan/pl/wish/117075920 Whining Boy - Wanderer, doakers brother, comes in and out when he is broke, big story teller. 
Doaker - Bernices and BOy willie uncle. Owns house in which they are in, Worked on railroad for ever. Knows history of piano
Boy Willie - Bernieces brother from Mississippi selling watermelons, starts the conflict of the whole story.
Lymon - Boy willies friend. obsessed with women
Berniece - Boy wille sister, still in morning of her husband Crawley and blames her brother for his death. She doesnt teach Maretha the history of the piano
Maretha - Bernices daughter 11 years old, trying to learn how play the piano, she doesnt know about family history of the piano]]> 2016-07-27 15:13:05 UTC https://padlet.com/Jecan/pl/wish/117075920 https://padlet.com/Jecan/pl/wish/117075975 1. Basically it is a struggle over a family heirloom between two siblings, which is a piano carved with images of their African Ancestors that was crafted by their enslaved grandfather. The story takes place in 1930's Pittsburg during the Great Depression and also black migration from the South to the North. This migration began to stabilize during these times to create new black communities which later became victims of a failing economy. 

3. An important symbol of the story is the piano.its very important to Berniece and boy willie, because its a part of the family history. ]]> 2016-07-27 15:14:12 UTC https://padlet.com/Jecan/pl/wish/117075975 https://padlet.com/Jecan/pl/wish/117076826 Boy willie is trying sell the piano to have land he is in a liminal space 
Piano is a Liminal space for all the Characters (explain) 
Piano Carvings - Carvings in the piano are symbolic of holding the family together
Ghosts of the Yellow Dog - victims spirits getting their revenge. 
Legacy ]]> 2016-07-27 15:29:01 UTC https://padlet.com/Jecan/pl/wish/117076826 https://padlet.com/Jecan/pl/wish/117076890 Dominique N.
History/the past is very prevalent in the book. Lots of recalling the past of their families and the history of the piano. They make a point that the older people know less about their parents because back then the parents didn't want the children to know how they suffered. The things that are reminiscent of the past (the piano) are very important to them.  It's ironic that they are selling a piece of their history to gain back another piece of their history (their land).

Post Liminal Rites - to achieve their ultimate goal (becoming "new") by selling the piano and buying that piece of land.
Trying to break the chain of poverty and try and have something for themselves.]]> 2016-07-27 15:30:11 UTC https://padlet.com/Jecan/pl/wish/117076890 https://padlet.com/Jecan/pl/wish/117077009 Austin Salyers, Daniel

The family is divided by the piano, as a liminal space between the past and the future. Boy willie and other men in the family wish to progress the family by selling the piano for land. Berniece wishes to hold on to the piano as a link to the past. She values the history of the piano and the efforts of members  of her family like grandfather Willie boy who stole the piano. Berniece wishes for her daughter, Maretha, to not have her live binded by the past, but to live anew and only to remember her culture and not live by it.]]> 2016-07-27 15:31:52 UTC https://padlet.com/Jecan/pl/wish/117077009