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Analysis Of Don T Go: A Play By Alyssa Johnson

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DON’T GO
A Play by Alyssa Johnson

Alyssa Johnson
Mrs. Love Hilliard
Creative Writing
29 January 2016
Characters
DYLAN, A very young boy who is very sickly
STRANGER, an older gentleman full of warmth
MOTHER, a grieving and broken down woman

Setting
A main street lined with people, stores,houses, and a hospital.
Lights up to reveal a young boy, DYLAN, pleading for help.

DYLAN
Excuse me miss, I-
Mister, can you help me, I’ve lost my-
Please I need your-
Can somebody… Anybody?... Help me!...Please

DYLAN (CONT.)
I just want to see my mom. I know it’s only been minutes since I last saw her. Or wait it might have been longer… I coulda swore she was… But then she was… And she was also… Why can’t I remember things? …show more content…

From where?

DYLAN
Well. I guess today, when I was with my mom, I guess I walked off or something. I lost her.

STRANGER
Where were you?

DYLAN
I don’t remember.

STRANGER
Really? That sounds like Dissociative amnesia.

DYLAN
You sound like a doctor. You know, my dad was a doctor.

STRANGER
He was? Did he change jobs?

DYLAN
No. He died when I was five, I think in a car crash. I don’t remember much of him, but I remember his bright smile and him chasing me around the yard when we played. He was so amazing!I know mom misses him too. With all the things that have happened with me lately, it’s been super hard without my dad.

STRANGER
Oh... I am very sorry about your loss, but I’m sure your father would do anything just to come back and see your face one more time. Look at you and see your warming smile one last time. Now let’s find your mother.

DYLAN
But I don’t know where to look. It’s so hard!!! I just miss her and wish I could be with her right now. She’s gone forever! I’ll never see my mommy again!

STRANGER
Pouting never solved anyone's issues, now did it? Wipe those tears away. Why don’t we think of all of your mother’s favorite places, maybe she could be there? …show more content…

She won’t leave there. She can’t believe that you’re gone.

DYLAN
We need to go.

STRANGER
Then let’s go.

(STRANGER grabs DYLAN’s hand as to begin to walk of the stage. The lights fade for a moment. The lights up to reveal MOM sitting in the hospital bed).

MOM
I can’t believe my little boy is gone. He was the one last good thing I had in this world. He was my world. My ray of sunshine. This world feels so cold without him. This bed still smells like him. OH GOD! Why did you take all the people I loved from me so soon? I cannot stand to live in a world without my son. Dylan was the brightest and the strongest man I have ever known. He didn’t deserve this ill fate you placed on him. He had such a bright future. He can’t be gone! He can’t! He can’t!

(DYLAN and the STRANGER enter the room. They can barely hold back the tears as they begin to approach MOM.)

DYLAN
She’s so sad. I can’t believe I did this to here. I should have held on. I should have been stronger. I could’ve stayed longer.

STRANGER
This isn’t your fault Dylan. You can’t change what happened. You can only determine what happens from here.

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