ENGL 102- 

I Am Very Excited To Learn About Poetry.


A Thing Of Beauty Is A Joy Forever

- John Keats

ENG 102- What Do I  Expect?

I am not really quite sure what to expect. But I am excited to find out.
Am sure I will be visiting the writing center more often & developing my composition skills.

In English 101 Class , when we have the  group critiques,  it gives me a chance to develop my communication skills, which I am trying very hard to improve. The class was really important to me to understand writing with sentences and making a paragraph with one thought. 

English 101

My favorite thing that we did this term is the Thomas Pain play, my least favorite thing we did was watch the movie that was just not my thing, the way it was made and what it was about. It just upset my stomach and I wasn't up for watching it.

Tomas pain 2

How is the audience supposed to interact w/ the actor?

The audience where not supposed to interact at all because it was meant to give a more of an illusion involvement and 4th wall breaking. The way it was done was very unsettling which maybe the point but the actors who where supposed to be the audience would also give off that genuine feel to the play.

Finishing Up w/ ENGL 101

Since this is the last week of class and since we don't meet for a complete week, any entries you make on the blog this week will be extra credit. You can make any comments related to the course that you would like. However, I have a few questions:

1. In what ways did ENGL 101 surprise you? How did it meet or complicate your ideas of what a college writing class would be like?
2. What do you expect ENGL 102 will be like?
3. What is one thing that you learned this term that you didn't know before?
4. What was your favorite thing we did this term? What was your least favorite thing?
5. Which of your classmates' writing did you admire the most--either during group crits or on Thursday's in-class reading? 

Do you have any questions?

It's been a pleasure for me.

The play on Thom Plain is very disconnected and  tells about a man who has went through difficult times in life. Confusing as I have never had the chance to experience anything like this.. Comedy where you don't get to put a big smile on your face

Thom Pain

The play Thom Pain based on nothing by Will Eno was a dark comedy trying to give the reader

insights and an understanding of this man. Does the writer want us to think about our own life and

recall our sad and horrible past memories? This play was confusing. It is not based on one story line.

Instead, it has several story lines told by the main and only character being a one person play.

Thursday’s play

Seeing a play is great experience because each play has its own interpretations by the actors. The classes interpretation of thom pains play was different for each group which made it interesting. Some groups used background images while others changed the wardrobe of the actor with a tank top and makeup. I liked how each group  had it there own spin on the play and it gives the audience a different view than just reading it off the script with you seeing it live. I saw some videos of the play on YouTube and even those actors had there twist on the play which is good because it’s a different experience each time you see it.

Play thom pain

The speaker in the play seems to tell the audience he doesn’t care about there options or thoughts as he tells them to go fuck them selfs. This would seem like an insult but I feel it shows the speakers personality which is carefree as he also is smoking in the beginning . The speaker also describes him self a-bit with  him saying I really am whatever and to me this his him support that he won’t care about how people think of him even when they leave he says goodbye as if nothing happened.

Thursday Class

Performing this play mean we need to understand the story, how’s the story go on. It’s my pleasure to join in group with my wonderful classmate. And I think we did a good job! The difficulty things i think it’s interaction with the audience and the stage resilience. It’s my first time to see this, I’m not good at pronunciation. Seeing this can teach me a lot pronunciation in the story.

Performances

Though I didn’t arrive in time to see all the performances, the ones i did see helped me visualize the play. It’s one thing seeing the words on a piece of paper, and a whole other thing watching people try to say all of those disjointed things fluently. It was also interesting seeing the different takes on the character in terms of attitude - goes to show that an actor can really change the mood of a script just based on their way of presenting themself.

By performing this play it showed me that Thom Pain is not a man who is straight forward and blunt and does not care what he says around others around him but is a man who does have a gentle romantic side of him who actually cares about a woman that he has actually felt he as fallen in love with.
By seeing others act the different sections of he play I was able to see that others had different  interpretations of of his personality and or mood he gives off.

How did performing this play make you see it differently?
Seeing it ?

Performing this play made it seem entirely different , while reading it there where parts where I would loose track or loose interest cuz of how much he jumped around topic to topic. I know understand it and really appreciate it for its creative and artistic direction which the play goes in. It made me aware of more stuff he was trying to say and it made the experience more interesting.


When seeing it especially when the professor did it captivated me more and intrigued me. Plus with the movements it felt better

While performing this play I saw it differently since I was the person saying all these things and I thought to myself well if I was a little bit meaner I would actually be this honest but I’m not. While I saw this play the people that performed did it in such different ways and you would get different interpretations of the role and no one performed the same

How did performing make you see the play differently

Seeing people performing the play, I was able to see the different ways to deliver the lines and the different ways to utilize the stage. And the songs in the beginning, plus the background, brings a different atmosphere to the lines being said. Thom pain is a peculiar character so I’d say there would be different variants of the performances.

Play feels

How did performing this play make you see it differently? seeing it ?

Performing the play made me get a different ideas of how other interpretations of the play exist out there. In my head the play was a man on a stage with different backgrounds much like the ones i made for class that would set the mood of what he was talking about. When watching others they made the play come to life with acting it out and using outside things such as props that i didn’t imagine in the original. For scenes where he would talk to the audience the class had a great interpretation of that and i was supplied myself when they talked to me during the performance it made it more engaging for me. While watching everyone perform i learned the different ways people talk while reading a script and the different tones / music that could set the mode for the play.

Thom Pain

When reading this play, the beginning seemed off. The author quoted '"ear".  I knew that the author was going to talk about fear somewhere in his story because that was the opening of his play. Later on, the author talks about a boy and a cowboy suit which sounds very weird to me. His writing is very scattered like Hoffman's in Moods. I knew that all his ideas would be scattered but maybe all would make some sense in the end. This author wants you to interpret the story for yourself. He does not want to give his readers/audience the true meaning in his words, so he hides it in these scattered pages. I think authors like these are very poetic. I say this because poetry has a lot of meanings and so does Thom Pain. You have to look for the deeper meaning in this play just like poetry stanza's.

thom pain

The text in the play appears to be a bit unconventional in terms of delivering a story formally with proper transitional phrases. Instead Thom Pain uses random gestures that throw people off such as when he ended a descriptive metaphorical story with profanity. It's similar to "Moods", by Yoel Hoffman for the reason that they both introduce something randomly and explain it very unorthodox. It seems like a poem without any stanzas or rhyming for the sheer reason there are many literary crafts. 

Thom Pain

The opening of the play is bizarre, and the speaker, Thom Pain, talks in a casual and disjointed manner. He speaks directly to and about the audience, something that the other books we have read this term do not do. Even Moods, which sometimes made reference to the reader, could not interact with its audience in the same way as Thom Pain, a play. For example, Thom Pain directly mentions a man walking out of the theater, and the laughter of the audience. He also involves the audience, telling them what to imagine in their mind's eye. He's controlling the atmosphere. I think it's kind of funny when he recounts the story of the boy and his dog and insists that it's a true story, in the same way the audience's laughter and the man leaving is written into the script regardless of whether or not it happened.

i believe in the beginning of this play the speaker, probably in front of a crowd giving off a monologue of some sort , the speaker is telling a story , while trying to get his story about the little boy he does a lot of self reflecting for the people and makes them think, he obviously has something to say beneath his stories and they listen , not sure why they do but they are , except for the guy that left .

Thom Pain

In this text Pain is being being brutally honest and straight forward with everything he is saying . When you compare this text and Moods you can see that there is a difference of how they establish things, in moods everything is described with metaphors or it's actually indirect and subtle. for moods you're going on context clues, at least in my opinion that's   how it is.

Thom pain (opening)

I think the beginning of the story make me feel relax,and I can really easy to get into the story. The speaker was very causal, like he said whatever for a lot times. I like this, it's make me feel no pressure. And he always told us to imagine something, like don't imagine a pink elephant. He's story go very fast, if you don't focus on it, it will miss something immediately. And he said not important to answer his question for a lot times.It's like when we was thinking, our brain will comes out a lots different mind, sometime we might think this idea or that idea for us it's not important. Very interesting and vivid.

Thom Pain

The opening of the play Thom Pain starts off as a one man standing show, its him talking to the audience . the visuals of smoking and lighting the match show how its almost like stand up. In the opening he talks about himself as a introduction then goes on to tell a story but takes a step back to ask the audience " Do I even have to be here to tell a story?".The play started off with an attention grabber then went onto the story of a boy which you could relate to the reader. Later on in the play it talks about a dog and not long after the dog died a brutal death. Also what I noticed int he play was the constant break that would go back to the audience and the pauses the reader had to look back at the audience waiting for a response.

Thom Pain opening

This is an interesting play. It's a comedy, but not the kind of belly laugh comedy we might expect. It's a serious comedy, an intellectual comedy. There's probably some laughter, but not a lot. Eno wants us to work for the laughs, to take part in the farce.

Thom Pain

How is this text different from other texts we've read this term? In what ways is it similar? What is Will Eno's voice like? What is the character Thom Pain like?

Other questions:

• Why is the subtitle "based on nothing"? 
• Who was Thomas Paine?Why is the character called "Thom Pain"?
• Who is Childe Harold?
• Watch this clip from Michael C. Hall. How does it affect your understanding of the play?
• How is the audience supposed to interact w/ the actor? 
• What genre is this play? Comedy? Drama? Something else? 
• You'll probably read a play in ENGL 102. How will reading this play prepare you for that experience? 
• What questions do you still have?