You Can’t Take It With You You Can’t Take It With You is a chaotic, whimsical play that centers on the madcap Vanderhof family in 1936. In the Vanderhof house, there is always someone writing a play, dancing, playing the xylophone, or setting off illegal firecrackers. Grandpa Vanderhof; the family patriarch, believes in not working hard, but instead having fun and enjoying life to the fullest; no questions asked. While enjoying the carefree, no boundaries lifestyle; the Vanderhof home encounter some conservative guests, a run in with the police, and a visit from the IRS. In the opening scene of the play, the family members are introduced in the order of appearance. First there’s Grandpa’s daughter; Penny Sycamore typing away at one of her …show more content…
In the meantime, he asked Mr. De Pinna to look outside and see if there was a man standing in front of the house, because for the last two days there has been a man following him around. Mr. De Pinna said there wasn’t anyone there, he saw the man walk away. Penny in the meantime prepares to start painting, and Mr. De Pinna comes up from the cellar with an old picture Penny had started some eight years ago. Mr. De Pinna mentions that he cannot believe that he’s been living in the home for eight years. Then Grandpa reminded him that the milkman preceded him and had lived there until he died; five years. The family never knew his name, so when he died they gave him Grandpa’s name; Martin Vanderhof. The Kirby’s arrive; Tony had brought them on the wrong night by mistake. The Kirby’s are surprised by all the chaos, just as the Sycamores are shocked to see the unexpected guests. Penny makes the best out of the situation and instructs Rheba about dinner and then sends Donald to the market. Everyone is trying to have a conversation when Gay briefly wakes up, Mr. Kolenkhov wrestles Mr. Kirby to floor, and Penny starts a word game that causes friction between Mr. & Mrs.
As time passed, she eventually was given small bursts of freedom and allowed outside for short increments of time. She began to look forward to this personal time, not considering running away. During the middle of the story, Annie became pregnant. During one of her increments of outside freedom one day, she went into labor. The house had a sense of wellness and almost normalcy as Annie did her best to care for the infant.
...h an injury on the Little Seamstress’s finger. A turning point comes up when they get back to the village and finds out that his mother’s been rushed to the hospital, which than he has to visit her for a month.
At an open drive-in theater one night, Pony and his best buddy Johnny befriend two Soc girls, Sherri "Cherry" Valance and Marcia. While walking them home, their drunk boyfriends Bob Sheldon and Randy Adderson catch up to them, in their Mustang. The girls decide to return home with their boyfriends to avoid a fight. Ponyboy and Johnny fall asleep in a vacant lot, which results in Ponyboy coming home late. Darry becomes angry with and slaps him. Ponyboy runs out and finds Johnny at the vacant lot. They decide to run to the park to cool off.
...s her that he raped her and the next day comes to her house shooting his BB gun at the house. In retaliation the kids shoot Rex’s gun. The police come to check out what happened and the family decides to leave for their grandma Smith’s house in Phoenix. They arrive in Phoenix only to find out that grandma Smith is dead and her house is inherited by her daughter Mary Rose. The house is 14-rooms, the front rooms converted to a studio by Jeanette's mother. Once again the kids are enrolled in school and have to take their eye and hearing exams. Everyone passes except Lori who has to get glasses and is surprised how clear she can see. Jeannettes parents like to leave the windows open and one day during the night a stranger came into Jeannette’s room touching her private areas. Brian, Jeannette, and her father try to look for him after chasing him off. Reading the paper
The Grandmother's superior attitude is exemplified in her treatment of the children's mother, to whom she is extremely disapproving, and while there is a certain affection given to Bailey, "her only boy" she behaves as though he is a small child. Bailey, like all of the characters other than the Misfit, is important only in relation to the Grandmother; their relationship and the interactions between t...
Immediately, in the introduction of the story, the reader learns about the personality of each character. The grandmother’s selfish nature is revealed as soon as she comes into the story. She is trying to convince Bailey, her son, to vacation in Tennessee and not Florida as his family had already planned. The grandmother, unable to sway the family, has no choice but to travel to Florida. As the family is getting ready to depart to Florida, the grandmother appears in the car in full dress attire: too formal for just a simple road trip. Her choice of clothes which consists of a floral hat, lacey cuffs and collar are a symbol of her vanity. In relation to the description of the
First, When Martha and Mrs. Peters arrive at the scene of the crime, they see that it is a very lonely place off the road. The house is in a hollow, with lone-some looking trees around it(1).Mr. Hale thinks that having a phone to communicate with rest of the world in such place will reduce loneliness although Mr. Wright does not want communication(2). Minnie lives a miserable life in this place. Martha cannot believe that this is what Minnie foster has turned into. She describes her rocker, and says: “ that rocker don’t look in the least like Minnie foster. The Minnie foster of twenty years before”(3). The rocker is a very old rocker with a faded color and few parts of it are missing. Also, Mrs. Hale thinks it is a torture for Minnie to wrestle with the stove year after year because that stove is in a very poor condition(8). These are some few examples that show how miserable Minnie is in such a lonely place.
Throughout Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng the main character Lydia Lee faces change, change that will impact not only her life negatively, but also the lives of her family. Lydia has the most significant role throughout the book, she is the backbone of the Lee family. For Lydia’s parents, they view their daughter as a way they can live their unachieved dreams through, for Marilyn she believed she can live her dream of becoming a doctor through Lydia, while James wanted Lydia to be popular in her school. However, those dreams were lost after Lydia’s death. Lydia’s role as the backbone of the Lee family influences the idea of keeping secrets can destroy a family.
Much work goes into musical , as was the case in “Catch Me If You Can”,which La Joya Middle School drama had the pleasure of watching on January 15, put on by El Diamante High School. The musical was directed by John Sorber and Michael Tackett. This amazing production included many talented actors such as Maverik Dakota Raven starring as Frank Abagnale Jr., Kiley Hoffman playing Brenda Strong, and Jonathan Johns as Carl Hanratty. This incredible play carried a strong lesson. As was seen the protagonist ran from his problems and pretended to be someone who he wasn't. The plot of this story showed us that we can't run from our problems, for that only worsens the situation and is a snowball for our problems.
Later on that day their mom called for some help to come get her and their brother Bobby, when they car came he had to get in a hurst. After all that happened they finally found out what Bobby had.. it was polio what bobby had they knew things would really change after that. So the next day after Ann Fay found out that Bobby had polio she didn't know how she was gonna tell the twins. When Ann Fay told the twins they really didn’t know what polio was so of course Ann Fay had to tell them. The next day Ann Fay had to wake them up get them dressed washed their face and feed them breakfast, she was already toren all up because of what happened to her little brother. Before her daddy left he had gave her some overalls to be the man of the house and help her mom with the kids while he was gone to the war. Ann Fay knew with overalls she was gonna be doing everything now that her little brother has
The young couple begin to ridicule and make fun of the "stupid, old, lonely lady that nobody wants," and in that instant her dream is demolished and the little world crumbles.
After neighbors had not seen the Gruber family after a few days, they began to worry. Normally, the neighbors saw the Grubers at some point in time because many members lived on the farm. A couple of days passed, the neighbors hadn’t seen any liveliness on the farm, and became wary. After calling the proper
Mr.De Pinna dresses like a Roman discus thrower and positions himself for Penelope to paint his portrait. Kolenkov wears his undershirt and teaches Essie about ballerina, while Ed Carmichael plays the xylophone for her. In the climax of the mess, Tony and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Kirby, come in, in elegant clothing. Tony remembered incorrectly the day that they were supposed to come to the Vanderhofs' house for dinner. The Kirbys were surely supposed to come by in the following day. Seeing the madness of Alice’s family makes the Kirbys shocked. Alice is astonished. Frantically, the Vanderhof family attempts to calm the Kirbys down. All efforts to small talk failed over and over again by the ideological differences between the two families. Mrs. Kirby is disappointed by Grandpa’s snakes, Mrs. Wellington gets up, goes out of the room and sings as she is drunk. Some eggs which were prepared for dinner, are dropped down the sink by Rhebe. The play reaches a climax when Kolenkov shows off his wrestling move by knocking Mr. Kirby out to the ground. Penelope tries to appeases the atmosphere by starting a game which is called Forget-Me-Not. Unluckily, the game starts to uncover some embarrassing truths about the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Kirby; the couple evidently loses their
“Decaying” and “yellow teeth” are both phrases which implies a huge contrast between the man and the old people. The man is young and confident about going to the red room and he is also un-believing in ghost. The old people are awkward to one anther and towards the man,”with their gaunt silences”, “evident unfriendliness”. He will fear these old people and if the narrator feels uneasy so will the reader. The repetition of warnings is another factor that creates suspense.
... eternally knotted in the combined tapestry of their lives, never to be disentangled from each other and therefore entwining their lives together as well as their memories of idyllic summers and bitter storms. Memory can be triggered by anything, causing life to run in a continual loop between the past and the future, the truth and the dream. Peter and Clarissa will always be shaped by their memories; that is, the core of their being. As Clarissa descends the stairs at the end of her party Peter wonders “what is this terror? What is this ecstacy? . . . What is it that fills me with extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa . . . For there she was” (194). And there she will always be, forever bound in his memory just as he is forever tied into hers, together creating their true identities.