English IA oral

• Introduction to the book/ story. ( What was appealing to me as a reader)
• Why would you think it would make a good piece of theatre?

My performance was based on the story (Night Women, from Kirk! Krak?, by Edwidge Danticat).

Kirk? Krak! Is a special book, in my opinion, it’s not only a book that contains multiple short stories this book is evidence of human flourishing; with the goals of discovering and promoting strengths and virtues that help individuals and communities to thrive. Edwidge Danticat; who managed to get through all the obstacles and create something out of herself and share it with the world. Danticat and her story ( Night women) caught my attention precisely because of how this story describes the characteristics of the people of Haiti and its environment. Haiti's has a harsh and tragic history behind it, in general, this country is known for natural disasters, poverty, racial discord, and political instability that have plagued the small country throughout its history; and this story had a potential to deliver the information to the society and me.

Literary analysis of the story, Characterisation:

Theme - A story talking about a woman and her struggle throughout the story, also the judgmental opinions and hate that she received from her community. However, the theme of the story is the judgment and misunderstanding that follows her throughout the story. A mother who is being judged and misunderstood by others of being a prostitute and being different from the rest of the community. This story points out the hate that's coming from the community and the misunderstanding of people towards others with different abilities and social norms. From reading and performing the story, I can determine the value of love and sacrifice that she made for her son, whom in future might have to do the same for his kids.

Characters - A young single mother who is 25 years old and who works as a prostitute. . She hates her job but needs it to support her son. She makes up lies about angels to protect him and wants to believe them herself. She convinces herself that women who work during the day lack her independence.

The character whom I am going to perform and introduce to the audience is the Devil. A character who only tries to help mother but at the same time doing a favour for himself. He is a Satana a religious character, who could be over a thousand years old. He is tall, has a dark soul/personality. He does not fear of anything besides losing his powers. A Character whom I created myself, this character, in my opinion, had to be the highlight of the story. When I was creating him I wanted him to conduct all the characteristics possible including hate, love, happiness, disaster. Throughout my performance my main priority was to claim him as the adviser that Mother needed all this time, I wanted him to express all the emotions that I as a human being have and maintain.

Conflict - The central conflict is based on the fight between Angel and the Devil on behalf of mothers decisions. Both characters are trying to manipulate mother into making decisions that they think are the right ones. Both characters are right on behalf of their opinions. However only one she will listen to.

Relationship -  This short story is based on the relationship between a young mother and her son. Both of them face their struggle and throughout the story trying to help each other and get through the obstacles.

• Tone language- the tone of the setting changes thought out the performance due to the different setting and the atmosphere of the play. At the beginning of the play, the tone relays on the son and the mother who basically start with the description of their lives and their feelings.  
• Setting - of the play is a small one-room apartment where they live. Throughout the play we change the setting by including different props like; beds, table, and all of it rely on our characters movement on the stage.
  
  
  Adaptation of the short story and our performance.
  • What did we change, added?
  • What did we want to show throughout our performance?
  Out of all stories that were given to me by the author Danticat in her book " Krik Krak " the most authentic and intense was the story called "Night Women". The story that does not provide the reader with Multiple detail and observations, but a story that can make us think and make us compare different perspectives. Whether as this story was presented to us in the dramatic form, I want to include some creativity and obstructive way of thinking, and what can help me with that is including comic characters that would devour the negativity and drama in the story.
   My primary goal was to maintain the plot and the theme of the story. However, I wanted to create a perfect example of rearranging the story by including little nuances that would give the story more characters and more creativity for the audience.
   In this performance, I showed the maturity of both the characters mother and the son. Mother for making the right decision and being authentic and open to her son. Son for not being scared to come up to her and being brave for talking to his mother and trying to help her to find the solution to every obstacle that there are facing and will in future.
  In my opinion, it's was a good idea, and it was flexible for any adjustments that we did make in future. I want to create a different perspective and point of view towards this story so that people can see that it's possible to turn negative in to positive.
  
  
  Conclusion performance
  • What did we do on the stage to highlight our literary analysis?
  • My role and my performance
  • How I improved my leadership role in the group
  • How did I improve, and what was successful.
  This specific project showed me as a student how much time and effort you have to put in the assignment that level and quality, including, creativity, leadership, and communication. I’ve been working on this project from the beginning of the year step by step; at first, I read the book and learned all the stories and observed the characters. After we’ve learned that our project will be focused on the novel by the name of ( Krik? Krak!), my group and I choose to develop our performance on one of the short stories ( Night Women) ; my group and I finally developed an organized product that all of us enjoyed and were happy to delivery to the students, IB comity, and ourselves. By deepening into the project, it gave me an opportunity to explore and go deep into the production industry. During our final performance, it took me and my group two takes to complete the assignment what is devastating when it comes to project like this one. Throughout the performance, my group and I had some difficulties with completing our licence. However, we managed to improvise and deliver the main points of our dialogues. It was difficult for us to fulfil our hopes and hard work that we invested in this project: due to the new crew member and multiple dialogues that we had to add and adjust to our performance. New crew member, missing rehearsals, and other obstacles played a significant role in our production. However, I still do think that we did a solid job on our performance and delivered the content that we were expecting. This assignment played a significant role in me and helped me to develop and build up a leadership role in my group.
  
  
  My role in this specific project/performance was to produce proper content and then sell it to the audience. I created and adjusted the story to the point where I wanted to be. Throughout this project I have learned a lot of characteristics about myself, for example, I’ve learned that I have the ability to lead a group of people, provide all the materials as fast as possible, deliver information in the proper way by giving and helping my partners with their part of the performance.
  
  I have learned alot about haitian cultuea and it environment...