Finlay,+Brett

Hi! I'm Brett Finlay! I'm a Freshman Majoring in Advertising. I love art and have a creative mind. I am a black belt in karate and earned it my sophomore year of high school. I worked with the kids in the after school program and in the karate summer camp last year at the studio I got my belt through and loved the experience. I hope to make a difference in this world and achieve great things.

1. In class, we watched the ritual for the production of holy water by a Balinese Wayang kuilt puppeteer. When the movie began, none of us really knew what to expect. We all just started laughing at the silliness of the puppet show with quizzical looks on our faces. We laughed at the silly voices of the characters and the funny swirling movements of the puppets, though we had no idea what was going on or what was being said. The comedy is communicated by the clown servants through voice inflections of the dalang puppeteer as he acts out light-hearted scenes, and the silly overall appearance of these puppets; the puppets have large bellies, a protruding tooth, an awkward nose, and a tuft of hair. Though these clown puppets are limited in their movements and lack facial expressions, the puppeteer makes them personable and funny to his audience to lighten the mood before beginning the much more serious ritual of making holy water with the puppets.

2. Though the ceremony following this puppet show is rather serious, the ritual is meant to be entertaining to the audience and put a happy mood in the air, for the ritual is a rite of passage and is important to those being blessed. The puppet show is a means of communicating stories of their religion. Comedy is used to make it interesting to the viewers which include small children, since many ceremonies celebrate milestones in children's lives. It is easier to educate the younger audience members if they are engaged in the performance, captivated by the comedic nature of the show.

Joe Turner's Come and Gone Writing Assignment Question 1

There are several counts of racial discrimination in the play. First, Selig treats Seth and his wife rather rudely and when Bynum asks if Selig has seen any shiny men he says he has only seen “the Nigras working on the road gang with sweat glistening on them” as if implying that was their rightful place. Also, Selig tries to give Seth poor prices for the sheet metal he sells him and Seth has to haggle to get anything fair. Another example is when Jeremy and his friend Roper Lee are fined 2 dollars for no reason when at the bar having a drink. They were then thrown in jail before they could even have the drink and weren’t given a meal. Bertha comments that the police are trying to take people (more than likely black people) off the street by putting them in jail. In another example, Jeremy is fired by a “White fellow”, while working, for not paying fifty cents to keep his job. This discrimination effects the characters by getting them sent to jail and fired, as mentioned, but, in general, they don’t seem to care much about Selig’s racist comments or mistreatment since they are more than likely used to them. They are so used to being verbally abused and treated unfairly that when Jeremy tells Seth about being fired, Seth tells him that he shouldn’t have given up his job and should have paid the fifty cents.

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