Louie’s at First and Main
My part of analysis of this play was script/text. I did my analysis on crisis and climax of the script. Every play or movie will have a series of crisis and climax’s. I thought about this during the play and noticed that there are a series of these throughout the play. The first was at the beginning of the play. Dimitri was sitting there next to his house “a cardboard box” with a cup in his hand begging for money. He got change from some without any problems but with others, the patrons would be reluctant to give. In any case, Dimitri seemed happy go lucky and made the best of it with his friend Louis.
However, the crises came when Officer Charles came by. He acted as if he physically owned the side walk and detested Dimitri on it. He ridiculed, shamed, and threatened Dimitri. This changed the mood of Dimitri even though Dimitri tried to see the good in everything, it was clear that was ashamed to be in the position that he was in. The second crisis/climax that I noticed is when Dimitri was arrested. Prior to getting arrested, a nice girl had came by and visited with Dimitri. She was known as nice girl, because she was always nice to him and Louie whenever she came by. Dimitri was in his happy state, knowing that someone did care about him; however, it quickly changed when Officer Charles came by again and started abusing him with threats and name calling. Dimitri stood up for himself with the power of language and was quickly arrested and hauled off to jail.
Finally, the third crisis to climax was when the kids tore down Dimitri’s house. Dimitri loved his house and what valuables he did have. It was a sense of ownership. But what do you know, kids being destructive and having no sense of care, tore down his box house. Demitri was upset, but after talking to Louis, Dimitri built a d new and improved two story house. He then got to show off his new and improved two story box house to nice girl.
Although there are more than just these three series of “crisis to climax” in this play, I felt that the writer did a fine job of building the audience up, and then abruptly changing the mood by using this method.
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3 comments:
I do think that there was a lot of conflict and crisis, but I do wonder how much of it was necessary. I don't know if it would be possible to pull a couple out of the storyline since I haven't studied the script all that well, but I wonder if losing a couple of the smaller conflicts would make the stor drag less without taking away from the story too much.
I agree about building the audience up to the great ending. It was a change from the beginning to the end, and I really enjoyed the catch. It was touching.
Heather Harlan
Yes, there were more than one crisis and climax, real life is full of ups and downs, Dimitri has the crisis going to jail, having his house destroyed and finally freezing to death in the alley. The tension built and we felt the full impact of the tragedy in the end. I agree the writer did a fine job of building the audience up. Nancy Prohaska
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