Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Knots of Blood

As per the assignment, here are my seven summation sentences (whew, almost too much alliteration there for me to handle!):
Sc. 1: Two brothers: Zach is a man who is content with what he knows and sees, but Morris is a man who wants something more.
Sc. 2: From the letter-writing, we see that Zach is a man of the flesh, while Morris is a man of thought.
Sc. 3: The color of one's skin makes all the difference, even when growing up; even so, the color of one's skin does ot necessarily dictate the company that one keeps.
Sc. 4: Zachariah convinces Morris to dress up to meet Ethel, which is ironic because Morris is essentially a while man who must pretend to be a white man.
Sc. 5: The dialogue between Zach and Morris betray their true racial heritages; however, Morris seems to have some guilt regarding his white appearance.
Sc. 6: Zach questions the inferiority of his blackness, and whether or not he is beautiful, too, despite his skin color.
Sc. 7: Although Zach and Morris are "play-acting," they are actually playing the roles that society has assined to their skin colors; in the end, Morris decides that it is what flows through one's veins that decides family, not what one's appearance.

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