Alternative Scene Monologue

Joseph Grass has been diagnosed as having Bi Polar disorder, with manic episodes. This causes Joseph to lose control of reality. Joseph blacks out at the wheel in traffic and when he comes around, becomes verbally aggressive and refuses to cooperate with anyone trying to help him.

Thank you for taking an interest in the role! I really appreciate it. — So I have some background for the Emilia role, but it's open to creative freedom. She, Brandon (me) and the Kit all grew up on the bad side of town (I haven't picked a location yet, as I wanted everyone's input once I got the group together) She and Brandon are very close, almost like siblings, and he's very protective of her; they have a relationship like Dom and Mia from Fast and the Furious.

He does not understand why his own mother would do such a thing to him. During this moment, Joe begins to transition from precociousness to the confrontation stage. After he kills his mother, he is confronted by Shola, who tells him that his mother is good and she is not the devil. Joe arrives at the Church with his mother’s body being carried in his arms. He lays her at the alter and begins to pray for forgiveness and to say his final goodbyes. His father rudely suggests that he removes Nunu’s body from the church. Joe’s will for his mother and his emotions got the best of him when he confronted his father about the truth and him being his child. Joe was intensely outraged and sat the church on fire burning himself and his father. At the moment of Joe’s death, Joe was in the internalization stage of black consciousness. Joe began to have positive attitudes about his mother’s culture and beliefs.

Joe had attended 3 funerals in the last month for his friends, all succumbed to “full blown AIDS” as everyone is calling it, their families abandoned them, and it

Joe feels the obsessin to have eyeone listen to him. He wants to become a “big voice”. He denies to listen to anyone else words no matter how legitimate it may be.

After the realization overcomes Joe, he is able to piece together more and more what reality has in store for his future. He knows that he can’t live a normal life, but he just wants to be able to experience being outside, away from the prison that he is trapped in for the rest of his life. When he is finally able

Upon the clearing of the smoke, the scene of a gruesome battle appears. Furniture haphazardly toppled over; shattered glass daring anyone to step foot on the floor; clothes strung out everywhere. At one glance one might think that this was the work of a robber; but upon closer inspection, it is realized that nothing of monetary value has been stolen. The scene shifts to earlier that evening where a party was in full swing. The smell of alcohol seeping into every piece of fabric in the room. The sound of loud music vibrating the very core of every living person within hearing distance. There is an immense amount of people crammed into the tiny living room and red, plastic cups scattered throughout the house. All throughout the kitchen they lay; the trash can filled to the brim with these traitorous cups. The red appearing to be the color of hell fire, calling the sinners to

Black stage two stop light one two figures dressed in black. On the floor in fetal postions

separation, talk of divorce, and the possible of moving alway from all he know is hard on him. Great point with identifying, patient centered care, it's important for Joe

Joe was also subconsciously taught to distrust women. From his first experience with the dietician, all he knew was betrayal by the women in his life. His foster mother betrayed his foster father by attempting to help him. In his eyes, women were not to be trusted. The breaking point for Joe was Joanna’s pregnancy scare. To him it was the ultimate betrayal. “You haven’t got any baby, you never had one. There is not anything wrong with you except being old. You just got old and it happened to you and now you are not any good anymore”. (Faulkner 277) Joanna did not know what was happening to her body because she had never been taught. Joe however saw her mistake as an attempt at control. Her age made her useless to him and this realization destroyed her will to live. “Maybe it would be better if we were both dead”. (Faulkner 278) If she could not have Joe then she would kill him and then herself.

Joe feels that he has to now ask for permission to see Pip. In the

On top of that, not only does Joe face physical consequences from the war, but Joe also suffers mentally from the war. In the explosion Joe not only loses his arms and legs but he also loses his sight, hearing, and throat. This leaves Joe with difficulties communicating and unable to move himself. Joe has no one to keep him company as he lays in bed day after day, not even knowing when it is day or when it is night. Joe struggles with this mentally and this leads him to go into a mentally unstable state.Joe has to overcome these obstacles of not being able to tell time and not being able to communicate, but this takes time and in the meantime Joe starts to suffer mentally. Joe ends up spiralling into a dark hole where he gives up on hopes of life and he wishes that someone would come and kill him. Not only is Joe suffering mentally because of his isolation but throughout the war he has seen a lot of gruesome deaths and treatments of bodies after the person is killed. All of the images he saw during the war as people were killed and left for animals take a toll on someone's mental state. Unlike most people Joe isn’t able

Joe is not just a companion but also in some ways a paternal and even

The horn has already sounded and I’m still running. I can feel my blood pulsing in my ears. The sounds of useless advice feels the air. I continue to run. I come across a cave and ran into it. I gasp in shock and as I walk into a lab filled with mindless people editing videos. A film crew rushes at me and says, “If you were able to be in Divergent, which character would you be?” I shake my head in confusion. I attempt to back up slowly, but they grab me and place me in front of a computer and yell, “Edit!” The slam the headphones on my head and everything becomes a blur.

The audience can relate to Joe and feel sympathy for him because he was a good man who did many great things for his family and in the end paid the ultimate price. Towards the end of the play, Joe's son Chris anguishes over the fatally flawed decision made by his father, thus eliciting the sympathy of the audience. However, this is not enough to detract from the audience relating to Joe as a