Topdog/Underdog Essays

  • Comparing The Play Topdog And Underdog

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    I must say that I enjoyed the play proof much better than the play Topdog/Underdog. The ways that the two brothers spoke in Topdog/Underdog was just not how I speak, so I had a harder time following along and understanding what they were meaning. I also just wasn't a real fan of the meaning of it. I thought it was cool, in a way, that the theme of the play was the title itself. I was just not a fan of the play. However, the play Proof was something that I think many people could relate to in a way

  • Who Is Suzan-Lori Parks Use Of Irony In Topdog/Underdog

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    In Topdog/Underdog, Suzan-Lori Parks uses irony in the first names of the two brothers and their communication with one another to explore the dynamics of Lincoln and Booth's relationship as brother's, within their life experiences. By doing this, Parks is critiquing their life style and their life choices, which is often revealing her knowledge in tragedy through their everyday life. Her awareness of American culture, history, and struggle are shown throughout this play and is well constructed.

  • Comparison Of Topdog And Underdog

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    tale of “Equal Opportunity,” a story of an older black man who decides after decades of inactivity to rejoin productive society. Author Suzan-Lori Parks entertained readers and theater goers with her story of two competing brothers in the play Topdog/Underdog. Despite both literary works being provocative tales of able-bodied black men these two stories do not represent African-American literature as defined by Gibson and Warren but rather depict a contemporary dilemma

  • Analysis Of Topdog Underdog

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    system they abide to is a game. One could assume their fate is determined by personal choices and opportunities, but there is more that comes to play, especially when one is black in America. The system is rigged against African Americans and in Topdog/Underdog, Suzan-Lori Parks uses her characters, Lincoln and Booth, to explain the unjust, racist system that puts down Black people. She uses a card game to explain how the system is unfair and how people fall into traps of the system, and at the end,

  • Topdog/Underdog Outline

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    First, I would like to thank you for giving me an opportunity to present this pitch. Topdog/Underdog is a play by Suzan-Lori Parks that I would like for you to consider producing at the Voorhees Theater. In my pitch I have included a brief synopsis of the play, Theme of the play and how the production would help the fellow students. To further persuade you I have included a brief history of the past productions of the play, written review of different productions of the play, some casting choices

  • Identity In Topdog/Underdog

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    No matter how many times it can seem broken, family relationships always have a considerable amount of significance in a one’s identity. Abandoned by their mother and father at a young age, brothers Lincoln and Booth live together in Booth’s small apartment while Lincoln provides the paycheck that goes into the expenses. Pushing aside his past of hustling through three-card monte, Lincoln secures a job of acting as Abraham Lincoln at an arcade. Unlike Lincoln, Booth spends his time as a thief

  • Analyzing Parks's 'Topdog/Underdog'

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    What conditions, influences or events caused “Topdog/Underdog” plot to revolve around the differences in the standards and views of two brothers? How or why did it become what it is? In “Topdog/Underdog”, Parks uses language, sentence structure, tone, and other writing style details to display the difference between two brothers who have grown up and are now independent with contrasting views on life. One of the key details that I believe influenced the poem is that the main characters, Lincoln and

  • Suzane-Lori Parks Topdog/Underdog

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    “Topdog / Underdog” Power, Social Economics, and Greed between Brothers Dramatic irony is a type of irony where the characters are unaware of the situation but the audience is not. For example, in the play “Topdog/ Underdog”, we know before the characters that the younger brother is going to kill the older brother. In real life, irony can be comical, bitter, or sometimes offensive. The playwright places ironic instances throughout the play and has the characters speak and act in a certain way so

  • Nostalgia In Topdog And Underdog By Suzan Lori Parks

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    Nate Marshall’s “palindrome” absolutely neglects the use of chronological and linear time to convey the story of a romance that seemingly continues to haunt the speaker in the present. Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks, a Pulitzer Prize Award winning drama, demonstrates the struggle of two low-income African American siblings who rely on a card game, as much as each other to survive. Both works of literature, the poem and the play, assume that the protagonists in each are destined to entrap themselves

  • Power Dynamics In Suzan Lori Park's Play Topdog/Underdog

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    Suzan Lori Park’s play Topdog/Underdog explores the power dynamics in a contentious fraternal relationship. Topdog/Underdog follows Lincoln and Booth’s ostensibly shared search for “what is” and “what ain’t” and struggle to survive under stifling societal confines. Navigating the only reality they know, a money-driven world that denies them any social or economic stability or progress, the brothers survive by resorting to a life of hustling. Lincoln and Booth are defined by their struggle to survive

  • The Unfair Treatment of Women

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    The Unfair Treatment of Women My mother has always promoted sisterhood and support for women. Growing up, I was taught that women, although we can do anything we want to do, need a support system, because we are traditionally the underdogs, and we should not accept being treated unfairly. My mother likes to tell a story about how, when she was a girl, she told her dad that she had decided to become a lawyer when she grew up. In response to her proclamation, my grandfather, an attorney himself

  • Analysis of The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela

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    Analysis of The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela In The Underdogs written by Mariano Azuela, we are introduced to a character that strongly symbolizes the fuel of the Mexican Revolution. Heroes like Demetrio Macias brought the Serrano’s hope of giving them what they felt they truly deserved. Although Demetrio Macias, the general (colonel) of a rebel army is hunting down the army of Pancho Villa, he seems to have the same ideals as the enemy. In addition to Demetrio Macias, we meet women like Camilla

  • Rugby is Better than Sex

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    all other sports grounds, our rugby team found a somewhat full size field. The first engagement we had for the season was a home match against Lehigh University and this was one of best games for the entire season. We went into this game as the underdogs, but that did not inhibit my team from maneuvering well. We were not expected to win, so all we did is have fun giving Lehigh a decent challenge. On many occasions, I would run with the ball and stop just a couple of yards away from the goal line

  • Charlie Chaplin

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    composer, (Reader‘s Companion 157). He was the ideal rags to riches role model that every American dreamed of becoming. Charlie Chaplin revolutionized American show business and inspired Americans to follow their dreams because he was proof that even underdogs could make it to the top. Charles Spencer Chaplin had a very eventful life. He was born in London on the 16th of April, 1889, (Douglas np) to two music hall performers; Charles and Hannah Chaplin. (Reader’s Companion 157). His father was a singer

  • The Physics of Basketball

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    headlines all over. Every news channel, sports channel, and newspaper has a story about the big games. Everyone is making bets as to who will be the big champions. Will it be the defending champions, Los Angeles Lakers, or will it possibly be one of the underdogs. This is the most intensive time of year for basketball fans as they watch the teams battle out the game. Up and down the court, the turnovers, rebounds, fast breaks, and most of all the baskets make the games exciting. But have you ever wondered

  • Descriptive Essay About Snow

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    Snow, one of Earth’s beautiful yet ugliest creations, is one of those subjects that brings with it mixed emotions. Some people love it, while others not so much. It can bring us fun and joy, but can also bring just as much destruction and danger. When it first touches the ground, fresh, pure and unaffected, it’s a lovely white blanket that covers our world. However, once it becomes black, mushy and hard, we get tired of seeing it, hoping the sun melts it all away as soon as possible. It’s a cycle

  • To Kill A Mockingbird Essays: Why Defend a Black Man?

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    clearing the accused, Carl Lee Hailey's, name.  The lawyer feels that it is his obligation to humanity to do so.  Similarly, the case Atticus accepts is something which goes to the essence of a man's own conscience.  Atticus is unable to treat the underdogs of the town how the majority of people act towards them.  Clearly the people of Maycomb are narrow-minded, bigoted and hypocritical, and Atticus  Finch is not.  Nothing can be done to make the prejudiced, perverse people hear the truth.  This dogmatic

  • Justice After War

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    discuss how to maintain justice. Maintaining the balance between these two is a tedious task. In many conflicts through history the aftermath has been more of a problem to the defeated than the war itself, becoming financially crippled, becoming underdogs of the world, being restricted. These are all problems faced by the dark horse of the battle, after a battle keeping a stability of even-handedness and retribution is a daunting task. Many trials through time have been subject to comments by critics

  • Geroge Orwell

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    community. Thus, he advocated a need for balance between the two concepts. In 1922, Orwell began working as the assistant superintendent of police in Myaungmya, Burma, and this is where his hatred toward imperialism and its tyrannical rule over the underdogs in society developed. He felt guilty torturing and flogging unwilling subjects. The community had taken too much power over the individual, and the imperialist society commanded Orwell to enforce this injustice: “I was stuck between my hatred of

  • Dodgeball

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    one day a game we once played and still play could be so hilarious that as an audience we would want to watch a comedy about it. DodgeBall is a great sports comedy; hence this is a movie that can be watched by the entire family. DodgeBall: A true underdog story is an extremely creative film that deserves to be watched. Imagine playing a game of dodge ball against the toughest kids in the school. How well do you think that you would do? Would you over come or would you lose and run away, never trying