The Piano Lesson 2

Something I found interesting was when Doaker was talking about the railroads, at first he was simpling talking about railroads but then he he uses the railroads as a sort of metaphor for life. He talks about how there is always a train going in your direction, even if you miss it there will be another one. With the "trains going every whichaway", it shows how people and their lives are constantly moving and changing and paths are crossing and everyone is just going everywhere. Then Doakers feelings towards his own metaphor changes, he doesn't want people going everywhere, he thinks it would be best if everyone just staid where they were. This interested me because it almost seems as if Doaker set up this great metaphor to show us our flaws and things that we shouldn't be doing.

Comment:
I also think it's interesting that they all fight but that is also what siblings do. Me and my siblings fight all the time but not like the characters in the story. I am interested to find out if your prediction that their family had a previous problem before now comes true.

The Piano Lesson 1

In the begginning of the play on the first page I was suprised to see the word nigger used. I've always known it to be offensive to black people and didn't expect to see it in a book we read in class. I was also thrown a little off guard when I started reading by the way the charecters talked I wasn't expecting to read that kind of dialouge.

Comment: I also found the differences in the characters to be compelling because they were related. Other than the characters telling us that they are related I didn't see a connection between them.