Boy Willie's Poem

In any family argument it is often difficult to pick sides, but nonetheless is imperative to relate to the side that you see best fit. Therefore, I would have to state that I tend to choose Bernice’s side in the argument against Boy Willie. My reasoning is simple, I tend to admire my family roots, thus I have a tough time parting with an heirloom such as the piano. I tend to see the side of Berniece because I would want to protect and take care of an object that inhibits so much of my family’s legacy and not to mention died over. I think that Boy Willie is looking to the future by purchasing the land, but I feel it is important to keep an heirloom such as this piano.

In The Piano Lesson, by August Wilson, Berniece struggles with her personal connection with the piano. Her families past reveal her relationship with the piano. The piano meant a lot of things to a lot of different people over the years. The piano is a complex and multilayers symbol; its meanings are both personal and political. For example, Berniece was affected by the piano positively and negatively. She had a sentimental connection with it and never wanted to get rid of it. But the piano had a lot of history behind it and it also carries a lot of meaning to it. Berniece stopped playing the piano for a while because of all the spirits inside of it and how they started to haunt other people. Berniece saw Boy Willie getting attacked by Sutter’s ghost and that made her realize she needs to let go of the past and play the piano again. But what was ironic is that she tried her best to forget the family history that came with the piano, she can never let go of her families past no matter what she does. This reveals that people should come to good terms with their past and learn to overcome it.

In the middle of Bernice Charles's parlor it sits, unmoved and wooden. How it came to be there is a story which her uncle Doaker tells well. Her father Willie Boy used to work as a slave under the ownership of Mr. Sutter. He was an amazing wood crafter and continued to bring cash in for his "superior". But Willie Boy didn't always belong to Sutter, instead he used to belong to a certain Nolander, whose wife owned the very piano that he was traded to Mr. Sutter for. When Mrs. Nolander wanted to buy him back as her slave, the new owner refused. Instead he allowed Willie Boy to take his talents into their house and carve a picture into the wood of their piano. He was only supposed to carve himself and Mama Bernice, but instead continued to carve pictures of his whole family that he stored in his memory. After the piano was finished Boy Charles, Willie Boy's father, felt that he should take the piano because he would "say it was the story of [their] whole family and as long as Sutter had it…he had [them]"(Wilson 45). On the fourth of July in 1911, it was done. But sadly, Boy Charles was killed, hiding in a box car afterwards. After his death, Bernice's mother broke down and brought in a woman to teach Bernice how to play. She said that when Bernice played she could hear her father talk to her, and so Bernice continued to play, until her mother's death. Now she won't touch the piano, yet refuses to

After bickering with Boy Willie, while he tries to convince her to sell the piano, Berneice hits Boy Willie while blaming him for the death of her beloved husband, Crawley. Boy Willie is a reason why Berneice does not want to let go of the piano. It would be an injustice to sell herself out to the man whom she blames for, getting her husband murdered.

In act 2 scene 2 in The Piano Lesson by August Wilson, Avery and Berniece meet and are discussing the house Avery is going to rent from Mr. Cohen. Then Avery tells Berniece that he wants to marry her, she then brings the ghost that her and Maretha saw. A major conflict of this scene is when Avery asked Berniece to settle down with him, she continues to tell him that she has too much to worry about she can not settle down with him. Another is when she tells Avery that her and Maretha have seen the ghost of Sutter. The stage for the plot of my scene is the rising action. In this scene there is an argument between two characters Avery and Berniece. They argue why Berniece does not want to get married, why she does not want to play the piano for

“12 O’clock Boys” was released in 2014 by Lofty Nathan and “We Real Cool” was written in 1960 by Gwendolyn Brooks. After reviewing each of the works carefully, I noticed that they contained interesting similarities as well as major differences. "12 O’clock Boys" plays like two separate films that are joined. One of them focuses on a group of young African-American men (most appear to be in their late teens, 20s and 30s) who ride their motor bikes around the inner-city Baltimore. They are depicted as rebellious on their roaring motorbikes while ignoring the traffic laws putting the citizen’s life in danger.

Have you ever been punished by your parents for misbehaving in school and not doing your homework? And as a punishment they used to take away your most valuable possessions such as toys; cars, videos games, electronics etc. That makes you feel a little angry and upset at the same since your priced possession has been taken away. This is similar to stories The Piano Lesson, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone by August Wilson and lastly, Hamlet by William Shakespeare. The Piano Lesson took place in 1936 Pittsburgh while Joe Turner’s Come and Gone took place the summer of 1911 in Pittsburgh. In both of these stories Wilson uses religious concepts and ghosts to demonstrate several of the difficulties that African in American had to deal with even after the slavery. The Piano Lesson is about a sibling conflict. The two main characters are Berniece, and Boy Willie both of them have positive believes that are dramatically opposed. Boy Willie wants to sell an antique, family inherited piano in order to buy a Mississippi land where his family had worked as slaves. However, on the other hand, Berniece, who has the piano refuses Boy Willie’s request to sell the piano because it is a reminder of their heritage and

When she passed away, the piano had a place with her youngsters, Berniece and Kid Willie, in spite of the fact that for a period Wining Kid bore it from town to town as a voyaging performer. It as of now dwells in Berniece's front room, despite the fact that she declines to play it.

At first, this process is difficult for Berniece because of the deep emotional bonds with her mother, Mama Ola, who “polished this piano with her tears for seventeen years. For seventeen years she rubbed on it till her hands bled. Then she rubbed the blood in... mixed it up with the rest of the blood on it”. This shows that Mama Ola mattered greatly to Berniece and that the piano acts as a painful reminder for her. At the end of the play, she puts her own ghosts to rest. As Avery blesses the house, Berneice realises that she must finally play. She as does so, she chants “I want you to help me” over and over. She also explicitly names Mama Bernice (who is Bernice’s great great grandmother), Mama Esther, and Papa Boy Charles in between cries for help. All three were slaves to Sutter. Mama Bernice is especially important as she was sold for the piano. By calling out for help, she is accepting the tragedies in her own

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Doaker then recounts the account of the piano's history. Eras prior, Sutter, their family's slave-holder separated a family by offering a mother and kid to pay for the piano which he purchased for his wife as a commemoration present. The wife was content with the piano yet missed having the slaves, so Sutter had that family's spouse/father (who was a craftsman and excessively significant, making it impossible to offer), cut their similarities on the piano. He cut resemblances of his whole history on the piano. In 1911, Boy Willie's dad stole the piano from the Sutters; in striking back he was executed.

Through point of view and personification, Richard Wilbur conveys a sympathetic tone, in his poem “Boy at the Window”. The first stanza of the poem is written in a third-person limited point of view from the perspective of the boy. The reader discovers that “seeing the snowman standing all alone/In the dusk and cold”, the child begins to cry. Although the child is warm and comfortable in his home, he pitied the snowman, who was secluded outside. In the second stanza, the point of view shifts to the snowman, who observes the boy in the window, from outside the house. In contrast to what the boy thinks, the snowman “is, nonetheless, content,/Having no wish to go inside and die”. This suggests the boy’s naive nature, and how he doesn’t understand

The second lesson that can be learned from Berniece goes beyond the importance of family it is the importance of ancestral history. The reason Berniece is so attached to the piano is the family history tied to it. When her grandparents were freed from slavery her grandfather died over stealing it. Then even past that her mother was obsessed with playing the piano and cleaned it everyday. She taught Berniece how to play piano on it and her mother used to say it filled her with great joy to hear Berniece play. But, after her mother died Berniece never played the piano again. In this scene Boy Willie yet again is trying to sell the piano. Berniece begins to defend saying, “ Look at this piano. Mama Ola polished this piano with her tears for seventeen years. For seventeen she rubbed on it till her hands bled. Then she rubbed the blood in.” This is part of the reason Berniece is so attached to the piano which is the reason she will never allow Boy Willie to have the piano. Berniece’s love for her ancestral history is what causes her to be so attached to piano and why she will always defend it. She at one point pulls a gun out on Boy Willie and says he won’t take the piano over her dead body. In this scene which is basically the ending of the story as everything around her is caving in. Berniece has an epiphany to play the piano to cleanse all the surroundings of all trouble. The story goes, “ It is in this moment, from somewhere old, that Berniece realizes what she must do. She crosses to the piano. She begins to play. The song is found piece by piece. It is an old urge to song that is both a commandment and a plea. With repetition it gains strength. It is intended as an exorcism and a dressing for battle. A rustle of wind blowing across two continents.” What ends up happening is it solves all the problems around her. It almost seems to

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