Second Employee: You positive we're getting a Christmas bonus?
First Employee: Yes. Someone over heard we did a good job.
Third Employee: There is a guy-I forgot his name-He got an extra month’s bonus for selling a clearly broken TV.
Customer:[approaches] Could you please help me with finding Christmas lights.
First Employee: [pulls out piece of paper and pen] what kind of lights? 80 watts?
Customer: Uh-uh. Not those. Suppose they burn out through the season, I might get in trouble with my wife for getting lights like that.
Store Manager: Well, here is an easy fix. Lights good enough, but do not waste power. I say powerful, bright, colorful. I said long-lasting. You can find them no other place.
IBSEN:
Tilney: Who is that?
Milard: Lord knows.
Tilney: Jefferson's cousin? Is that him?
Milard: Could be.
Tilney: Did not recognize him through this crowd.
Milard: Ah, I see.
Tilney: He's still a boy. I bet not even fourteen.
Milard: Look, here he comes.
Jefferson's cousin: (walks over with jittery movements) Oh, You look familiar! You must be a friend of my uncle! Uncles always the one with friends. I bet great friends for sure. He-He is rather talkative.
Milard: Is that so.
Jefferson's Cousin: Oh yes! very friendly!
Reflection:
I thought it was fun to play around with how the sentences were put together. The short choppy sentences really provide a great attitude in characterization for the people in the pastiches. I had fun making snooty characters that came across as careless to the topic discussed in IBSEN, as to create characters that were far more well off then those around her. I also saw Hedvig as a very enthusiastic character towards her favorite subjects so instead of having her favorite subject be her daddy, I had my character is his uncle. I made it seem like that was all he wanted to talk about, and that he was very fond of his uncle at the highest degrees. I replaced guards in Anouilh with employee's at an electronics store to help get the emphasis out the guards many characteristics and somewhat less focused on the job mind. They just enjoyed more on talking than actually doing work. This was also made shown when the manager came up to do the work for them and help find the Christmas lights for the customer. I also used the store manager to show how the chorus talks and also to make him come across as sympathetic but in a truly mean way and also to make him seem like he knows what he is talking about and knows everything that will happen.
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