What Is Change Berniece's View Of The World To A Mundane World?

After spending time with her elderly relative, the girl sees that the worst thing you could do to another person “is to make them feel as if they are worth nothing” (Ortiz 3). This ordeal causes her to learn that what she says and how she behaves could be hurtful and upsetting to others. Because of this event, Connie would most likely become more thoughtful of them. In addition, the teen starts “to consider a number [she] hadn’t thought much about” (Ortiz 3) and begins to understand Abuela better. The girl feels terrible and sorry since she had made her grandmother feel like she was worthless. Zero becomes a more significant number to her life, and she realizes that she should not act towards others like she had. In conclusion, Constancia’s experiences with her grandparent made her more mature and considerate, changing her self-centered

The apparitions in this play are The Ghosts of the Yellow Dogs and Sutter. Both these ghosts have the motivation of revenge. Having two separate motives for the piano; Berenice values the piano's history while her brother, Boy Willie, wants to sell the piano and use the money to buy the land his family was enslaved on. The Charles family is being haunted by the ghost of Sutter, whose family once owned theirs. Sutter's ghost appears after he falls down his well and the cause could be the Ghosts of the Yellow Dogs, the spirits of the Charles family's ancestors. The ghost's appearance causes conflict within brother and sister to rise. Sutter comes back after his death as a ghost to avenge his murder and reclaim his piano. In act 1 scene 1, Berniece states, “Just go on and leave. Let Sutter go somewhere else looking for you”. Berniece thinks that Sutter's ghost appeared because her brother, Boy Willie, killed him. In reality, the ghost of Sutter just reminds Berniece about her family's history and the piano. The piano represents her family’s past, struggles, and history. Berniece cannot accept her family’s past and move on. “Mama ola 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

This cycle in the end, makes her extremely bitter towards two types of people she encounters: those that she perceives as lower than her and those that have somehow ascended the social hierarchy through nontraditional means.

For example when Doaker and Boy Willie are talking Doaker says”You know she won’t touch that piano. I ain’t never known ger to touch it since Mama Ola died. That’s over seven years now. She say it got blood on it….” So this is saying how Berniece thinks that the piano has something on it that she feels has almost a grudge or vengeance on it because to her it has blood. Therefore, the piano has some kind of spirit or prescence that Berniece doesn’t want to deal with and so hasn’t over seven years. However, this rapidly changes because of Boy Willie’s presence and how Bernice has to quickly make up her mind and start to realize what her family has actually done. The piano as I stated before is an embodiment of the past, and the ending scene proves my point when Berniece calls upon her father Papa Boy Charles and Mama Ola to help her get sutter out of the house and keeping the hostile environment that Berneice is living in. With the ghosts of the yellow dog being a sense of presence in the house and it is scary, and Berneice even sees Sutter within the house when Boy Willie arrived. Berniece has the right approach of taking care of the piano, just because it is a piano doesn’t mean that it isn’t important and that is what Boy Willie sees, is a piano that is just a piece of wood

To identify the importance of the play, Wilson introduces symbolism as a mean of the play. The symbols the piano, Sutter’s ghost, and the song bring about the core of the play, and give a deeper look into The Piano Lesson.

Ghosts haunt this troubled family as well. Several characters see the ghost of Mr. Sutter, the man who probably murdered the father of Berniece and

At the beginning of the play a group of people see the ghost but when the ghost

Each and every individual develops some sort of perspective and opinion on many different subjects, objects, and people throughout life. However, these perspectives are prone to change. The play, A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams is a great example of new outlooks on life making an effect on personal beliefs. It shows the denouement of two opposing perspectives and how they can eventually damage or even destroy an individual. Some ideas

As Avery says, she is carrying stones with her, letting the piano weight her down, keeping it as a grave reminder of her family?s history. If Berniece were able to touch the piano, she would be able to accept and overcome her fear and disgrace of the violent past, but she is not ready to do that.

To begin with, in this play the author unfolds family conflicts that involve its characters into a series of events that affected their lives and pushed them to unexpected ways.

The play makes you think, whether for a split moment or a long time, about the idea of being aware while going about even the most menial of tasks.

We see in the story that the ghost of Sutter is still haunting the family, through the piano. At the same time the piano is a symbol of family history, it is also a link to the slavery that the family had to endure. It is only through playing the piano, not through some christian exorcism, nor by physically fighting Sutter that they are able to drive off the ghost of Sutter. Boy Willie says "Hey Berniece… if you and Maretha don't keep playing on that piano… ain't no telling… me and Sutter both liable to be back." (108) By continuing to play the piano, Berniece and her daughter can continue to keep these dark links to their past away. Just like Mama Ola tendered the piano and taught Berniece about it, Berniece can teach Maretha about the importance of

Wilson highlights the fact the piano is full of stories that are directly linked to Berniece, which affect her current negative feeling towards it. Also, as a young girl, Berniece had to play the piano for her mom, so she could talk to her dead father. This demonstrates that not only is her family physically depicted on it, but also spiritually connected to it.

To start off, the first stanza in her song represents a sense of how unavoidable change is and how the confusion of the bond combined with the stress of the blame game can lead to a doomed

Lastly, her family betrayed her by not listening to her side of the story after her sister told lies about her, and they betrayed her when they acted as if they did not care if she moved out of the house. In all of these actions, the family itself and certain members of the family are portrayed as uncaring, unsupportive, disrespectful, conniving, deceitful, and hateful to Sister. Through every action of the family, Sister is treated harshly, and she tries to not let this bother her. Yet, anger and bitterness build up inside of her until she cannot take it anymore. Consequently, it built up so much inside of her that it severely affected Sister so profoundly that she moved away from her home to get away from her family.