Erics Play review

Recently I've been a part of an after school playwriting program. In this program we write a play a week then perform everyones plays for feedback . In my past class a member of the program Eric stanford wrote a terrific play on growing up, and the problems/structures of society.

In the play a group of teen kids run prepare a play about high school drama while in their own life, things are exactly like the play. Eric does a very good job metaphors with and hidden meanings of the play. Erics other strength is that with the dialogue he uses you find your self very engaged, it sounds like something actual people might say. My personal favorite part of the play is the character Entity. Entity is the "fool" of the play, a fool of a play is the one person out of all the characters that tells the truth but looked at as mad or a jokester (ex. Mercutio from Romeo and Juliet.) In this play Entity is kind of a stranger, he sits by all the kids completely ignored muttering only simple poems about the world and its constant robot form.

Eric's play consisted of strong characters, dialogue, and meaning but in some ways needed a little bit of a booster. Eric's biggest struggle in the play is tying everything together, this comment has a big range of meaning. For one thing the characters could be a little more developed, the only problem with them is that they are very similar, I think any addition of  dialogue would help him with that. Eric also in some way had little scene and conflict development. The solution to these two problems are simple he just has to elaborate, adding more diolouge and exaterating the conflicts between characters.

Perks of Being a Wallflower #3

 Perks of Being a wallflower is an amazing book, its structured characters, creative Ideas, relatable reactions, and funny jokes leads me to a conclusion that an author like Stephen Chbosky would never leave a hole in a character by accident. Despite this assumption I notice one part of Charlie that is left out, he never talks about his older dead friend in any sad or detailed way. At first I thought this was a mistake on the authors behave, it was unrealistic of anyone to get over a dead relative or friend so quickly.

Then I thought a bit more and realized this was not a big gap in reality but an extra stretch of character development. I had blanked out on the bit that charlie is in fact the writer of the story and has a complete control over what he mentions. This means that maybe he is in fact still getting over the friend and just chooses to him out.