Jacob L Lit and Performance Blog

#1.)  When I read the chapters, “The Wall of Fire Rising” and “Night Women” in the book Krik Krak by Edwinge Danticat, these two stories seemed to be the most eye catching to me.  When I say eye catching, they seemed different that all the other stories because most of these stories talked about the Hatian Culture and how everyone was fleeing the country because of the Macouts.  The Government was in full control of the Haitian people.  I thought these two chapters had a connection because they both have a mother and son but no father.  I thought this would make a good piece in our created performance cause we could see what both sides looked like in both stories.  In both chapters, Little Guy and Night Womens son were going through a tough time because Little Guy just lost his father and Night womens a prostetute.  After all, it seemed like the performance worked out by putting Lily as Night Women and Little Guy as Night Women's son.  It was a ve...

Blog post due by the end of the day -- Reflect on your group's performance (strengths, weaknesses, etc.) as well as your individual performance. 350 words Jasmine and I performed our final performance in front of both classes last Thursday.  Unfortunately, we had to redo our performance a couple times because i was not able to memorize a line in my monologue.  When performing on stage I felt I was nervous and did not know what to say.  I wanted to stick to the script and not improvise.  I overthought the line when I said my mom must be a night women for about a year.  The first draft of our final performance was not great.  Jasmine and I made some eye contact and we did not have the backup when I came home from school.  After performing multiple times I learned that as an actor you have to show emotion but not to rush your lines.  I am that type of person that says the lines fast.  I think our strength in the final performance was our ey...