Sunday, March 7, 2010
Amerville
The Amerville play was fantastic a truly will put together performance and fun to watch. It had a very talented cast that could set the mood of a scene from funny to startlingly serious. Even thought the play was full of hilarious scenes, such as the drunken Jean Lafitte and the Fire Arms Salesman, the play had a message that was very grave. A message that stated that even in the United States (the country of freedom) there are still many freedoms of the people that have been spoiled and we the people can make the country a better place. The play referred several times to the post Katrina situations that have been ignored for so long. People are still living in recovery mobile homes and the levies still have not been fixed. The play also sung songs about the hate and violence in the world and how blatantly stupid it is in actuality. For instance, the play described how the Jews (Israelis) and Arabs hate each other when in actuality they are very similar to each other (Like cousins as the actor said in the play). The play’s message in the end was magnetic in that the lyrics stated that these grave situations are not all FEMA’s or the government’s problem to solve they are our responsibility. It is us the normal citizens of the United States who should not be ignoring the real world as we sit in our homes watching survivor (a show that does not teach you how to survive) . We should be the ones making an effort to help make this country and the world a better place.
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You know, my family still lives in a trailer because we lost our home in Katrina. There's always constant construction that goes on around my house, and that attracted one family to ask about our plans to rebuild from Florida.
ReplyDeleteTurns out, the little nine-year-old girl's grandmother lived in our home many years ago in like the 60's. After discovering this info, she and the rest of her family toured our home for nostalgic reasons, then left to go back to their lives in Florida.
We never thought we would hear from that little girl again until a year later when she sent us two $200 gift cards to Home Depot. Turns out her and her little brothers made an old-fashioned lemonade stand for a year to raise money for us to rebuild our home.
You're absolutely right, The spark of change has to start with us. We cant always wait around for government action to save us or make a big enough change to impact society. We need to be the change. And there are signs, be it little, that this change may be happening...