Ten-Minute Play Analysis & Evaluation
Analysis is examining something in pieces and parts to understand it as a whole.
Evaluation is making a judgement, or a claim, and supporting it with evidence.
After reading the plays Sure Thing and Trash Anthem, I want you to analyze each play's structure, characters, and dialogue; then write an evaluation of which one is the more effective play. Your paper should be roughly 2 pages in length.
Meliza Perez
Ms. Love Hilliard
Creative Writing
10 September 2017
Similar But Different Two different stories, one with unreliable character, the other with nonhuman personification of betrayal. One with a pending story the other with a compelling background and a lot of mixed emotion. Two different stories,
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They introduce their characters, their setting and they even establish a well rounded conflict. However, one,“The Sure Thing”, had a very interesting conflict, one that not even the protagonists could solve. The characters, in “The Sure Thing”, where fighting against precision, perfection, and of course the right dialogue. Unknowingly, they were fighting against the action of improving something until it was completely good. The other play, “Trash Anthem”, had a very homogeneous conflict from every other play. Man vs. Conscious. This story was far from unique. The protagonist even said as she conversed with the audience, “ Wish to god this story was more original, folks, but it ain’t.” She knew what I know, this story was not different. Trash Anthem had the best introduction and the best ending, but sadly it didn’t have a good conflict, its weakest link should have been it strongest. Therefore structurally, The Sure Thing, was most …show more content…
Their interaction should not be rush, it should be develop, not slowly, but piece by piece. Each piece of dialogue should tell us something about the character and from that a story can be made. Both, Trash Anthem and The Sure Thing had a good protagonist and antagonist, maybe even too good protagonist or too good antagonist. Both those plays had good develop characters and these character each had different background and personalities. They were the protagonists of the story and they were each other’s antagonist. Yet the play that we saw this the most was The Sure thing. In the Sure Thing, BETTY and BILL, the characters were the only two mention in the story, which makes them the protagonists, and they were also each other obstacle to getting what they wanted , either to be left alone or to be friendly. Hence, The Sure Thing, was the most effective with character
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