Throw Randall In The Kentucky Cycle

While reading the Kentucky Cycle, I felt a series of different emotions. An example would be Randall, his character is portrayed as unstable due to being a compulsive liar. Throw Randall into any situation and he will lie his way out of it, he will pull things right out of the netherland region. Throughout the play, it talks a lot about a battle with the native american people, the Cherokee, which is a lot like what is happening with today’s America, in present times. We are currently having issues with ISIS, although it may not seem like much of a comparison, the play is relevant in today’s society. Another example, the rich and the poor are dividing because of The Office, lowering health care which helps the wealthy and hurts the poor, just how the settlements divided in the Kentucky Cycle. In life, you will have a Randall, the liar, or an Ezekiel, the mature character, or Jed, the two faced character who will care for you while you are around and backstab you when you are not, the list goes on; these characters and people help get the story moving along and help establish

For instance, in God’s Great Supper, on page 150, a Union Soldier runs past Jed and Richard, Jed shoots the soldier and Richard thought it would be him instead of the soldier, while he stood there in complete shock. Richard did not realize what was going on around him because he was focused on his ankle because it “broke”, and staying alive during this war. While reading, I always felt like the characters, more specifically Richard and Randall, were under prepared or that they would make decisions to quickly, without thinking rationally or about consequences that may occur. The characters, particularly Jed and Ezekiel, know how to lie their butts off and they mask it well; Richard had no idea what his fate would be inviting Jed into his makeshift army he