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Who is Anna Karenina?

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A fictional character from a book that Juan Julian reads to the factory.

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Who is Santiago?

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Owner of the cigar factory

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Who is CheChe?

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Santiago’s power hungry younger brother?

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What does CheChe bring to the factory?

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Machine

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Who does CheChe kill and why?

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He kills Juan Julian because his wife ran away with the last lector

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Who if Ofelia?

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Santiago’s wife

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Who is Marela?

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The younger daughter, acts like a child (22), raped by CheChe, pertends to be Anna,

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Who is Conchita?

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Palomo’s wife. She has an affair with Juan Julian

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Who is Juan Julian?

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The lector, relationship with Conchita

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Where do Conchita and Juan Julian meet?

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The factory

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Who is Eliades?

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The gamester who runs the cock fights at the beginning of the play.

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Who looses the cock fight and what do they owe the other person?

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Santiago looses and owes CheChe part of the factory if he can’t pay back

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13
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What are the costumes like in Anna in the Tropics?

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Workers are well dressed. Use a lot of white and beige linen. Year 1929 Tampa, Florida.

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What does Ofelia have in her hat who Juan Julian arrives so he knows he is waiting for her?

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A Gardinia

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What does Marela do when Juan Julian arrives?

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She pees herself

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What ritual does Marela do before juan Julian comes?

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Puts his name in a glass of sugar water

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17
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When Juan Julian meets CheChe what does CheChe say?

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We are not hiring

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18
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What kind of character is CheChe?

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He is irrational, deceitful, his way or the highway, seeks power, in some scenes is made a mockery of (shows Ofelia the shoe)

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When Santiago and Ofelia are fighting who is the mediator?

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Marela

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20
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Which character is Santiago like?

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The farmer Levin, reminds him of when he was young

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21
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What story does Conchita tell Juan Julian?

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The story where she braided her hair and cut it but Palamo wouldn’t bury it so her father did. Then Juan Julian cuts her hair and they kiss

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Who is the face of the new cigar brand?

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Marela (elegant coat and fur hat)

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23
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What does Juan Julian give Marela?

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the book

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24
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Who finishes the book?

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Palomo

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Why does the Whipping man Author go under a lot of scruitiny?
He is not black or Jewish
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Who is Caleb?
Confederate captain who deserted the army and made his way back home. He has to get his leg amputated. He whips John as a kid. In love with Sarah who is pregnant.
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Who is John?
Former slave, killed the whipping man, avid thief, says will go to New York, ends up staying with Caleb
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Who is Abraham Lincoln compared to?
Moses
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What holiday do they celebrate?
Passover
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Who is Simon?
Former slave, loyal to Caleb helps treat wound
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Who does Caleb write letters to?
Sarah
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What was the only thing Simon ever owned?
A Haggadah
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Who is most devoted Jew in play?
Simon
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What do they do to Caleb before Amputation?
Get him drunk
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Who is the drunk?
John
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Where does Simon go at the end?
Goes to find Sarah and his wife
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What is revealed at the end?
John and Caleb are brothers
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Themes of Anna in the Tropics:
``` cheating/marriage infidelity the fault of man love, literature, politics jealousy traditionalism vs modernism each character is own genre people as a whole choose tradition about impossible love ```
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Genre of Anna in the Tropics
Magical Realism (lofty language, Conchita's marriage both have affairs and then get back together in end, How affair starts quickly)
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Why does Marela act like a child?
see innocent but has experience | parallel's Kitty in the book
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How does beginning of play forshadow the ending (Anna)
The story of the lover who died at beginning
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What does Marela's coat symbolize?
Shame, cover up bruises, repress what happened, escape and try to be someone else
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How see anger between John and Caleb?
John doesn't respect Caleb, What do I call you now Master doesn't seem to fit, takes letters
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Surprises in the Whipping Man?
Jewish, 1st act funny, dialogue is more contemporary, want more in ending, unresolved things.
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Realities of the Whipping man?
Men not given full freedom talk on South cheering for Lincoln's death reflect struggle isn't over even though free don't know what to do economic struggle
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Who asks the questions at the Passover?
Simon symbolizes he feels reborn (child usually asks the questions
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How many minutes of silence in whipping man in beginning?
2 min let set tell story
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Mathew Lopez background (whipping man author)
actor in NYC not good start writing. criticized b/c Puerto Rican racism still an issue
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Amputation scene
Frightening, talk about realities of time period, significance of Simon trying to save him dramatic lighting, blood,
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What is a Labutian Hero
views every event around him no matter how herendous as an opportunity to further his own interests Power and mmaturity the man who's always a boy
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How beginning of the Shape of Things forshadows end
She is going to step over the line, he gives her permission to deface
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What is art?
The expression or appreciation of human creativy and image notion typically a visual form.
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Is Evelyn's project art?
Could be because she changes him visually but question of concent
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What religion was Labut?
Mormon
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What story does he go off of
Adam and Eve. Eve is thought of as good because had to choose to replenish the earth. had to give up one commandment to fufill the other. Does this because doesn't want Evelyn to be seen as a villain. For greater good for Evelyn to change Adam.
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Who gets married at end of Shape of Things?
No one.
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Where does Evelyn break off engagement?
Her exhibition
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How does Adam change?
More of a nerd at beginning but as time goes on manipulated by Evelyn and changes himself. Tattoo EAT. innocent at beginning but exposed to world by Evelyn and betrayed
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Where do Adam and Evelyn meet?
Museum spray paint number on jacket
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Why does Evelyn deface statue?
She believes it is not pure art it has been ruined because cover up nude part. Therefore, tries to make a statement.
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Why does Evelyn go to Mercy college?
Scholarship "School picked me, I didn't choose it"
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Describe Sarah Ruhl?
Author of The Oldest Boy, Nanny was Tibetan and escaped into India with kid on back) tells story of boy reincarnated lama that they take boy to go to the monestary
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Magical realism in oldest boy
The way/quickly fall in love mother imagining the boy come at night sometime pass, time slow boy is puppet
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Why is a puppet used?
Too hard to work with 3 yr olf
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Japanese puppet theatre is called?
Bunraku 2 hooded 1 not, right arm, left arm, feet
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Question Ruhl asking
What makes good parent?
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Elements of Oldest boy/ main ideas
Hear of Buddhism no attachment religion portion in this day and age (when convenient) Arraigned marriage and family expectation preserving one's culture

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