A Piece Of My Heart Analysis

1. What actions occur offstage and why does the author elect to place some actions offstage and other actions onstage?

In "A Piece Of My Heart," we can see that fighting scenes were offstage since they do not have enough space to make them occur on stage. Also, the author wanted to focus more importantly on something else such as the reaction of the girls. For example, when Maryjo started to say that there a mass casualty coming in, the fight did not occur onstage because the author tried to focus on the reaction of the six main characters. For example, Maryjo was announcing that "This is receiving there is a mass casualty coming in. All doctors, nurses, corpsmen able to leave your lines please report at once to Emergency" (Lauro 42). There

Some of the major units are, for example, when Maryjo was announcing that there is a casualty coming in and the nurses were trying their best to save the lives of these soldiers, the sounds of the choppers gives the viewers the sense of fairness as something wrong is going on. By doing that, the author could convey apprehensions to the viewers to make them feel afraid when hearing this sounds and seeing the injured soldiers. In addition, at the end after the Tet Offensive there was this painful view of the injured soldiers that were coming to the hospital and this created a very sad atmosphere. For instance, Leeann said, “...eighteen years old coming into surgery… and he’s crying--Mommy? Mommy? Mommy? And I’m saying: I’m here, baby…” (Lauro 81). The author here could convey a very emotional feeling when the readers look at the young boy that was asking for his mom while he was

Thousands of American were killed because of that war. There were many issues and problems regarding the Vietnam war. Soldiers were dying without even seeing their families for the last time. In addition, many of them were pretty young. They were facing one of the most aggressive injuries. For example, Martha said, “There’s one boy here who’s just had his legs and arm blown off--this morning--just turned eighteen” (Lauro 67). Also, many nurses were exposed to the most painful things such as seeing young soldiers that have even lived much of their life dying because of something called war. For instance the conversation between Sissy and the G.I. who asked here to “remember him” (67). Therefore, we can conclude that the theme of this play is that many young men were losing their lives at early ages because of that war. Thus, this was getting their families and even the nurses who worked with them to continue their lives thinking of the tragedy that the faced during the