'Analysis of a Play Essay\r'

'In Edward Bok lee(prenominal)’s â€Å"El Santo Ameri arseholeo,” a master copy grappling hook kidnaps his married woman and child as he drives to Mexico, hoping to reinvent himself and keep his family together. form is a disgraced professional wrestler who drives his wife and watchword with him to Mexico. There, he hopes to reinvent himself as a wrestler, and not be taken as a joke. He also hopes to improve his failing blood with his family.\r\nIt is revealed shortly into the tinker that system has in fact taken his wife and password by force, when Evalana tells him to stop so she can take a bathroom break, and cadaver says â€Å"if I stop, you’ll try to run again. ” He also has brought a gun with him. As the story progresses, Clay pulls over, giving Evalana the â€Å" hazard” to run away, to which she promises she win’t. Clay whence gives a coarse monologue bring out his wrestling life, including when he had finally won a match and the audience in reality cheered him on, appreciating a â€Å"real” match as opposed to â€Å"so much faker bullshit (they had seen) through the years.\r\n”More importantly, during the monologue, Clay reveals that he had won to give his wife and male child something to believe in, and so his son could for once not â€Å"see his papa get beat time and again. ” During the long monologue, Evalana temporarily runs off, and Clay aims the gun at himself, in conclusion just putting it into his mouth. Evalana eventually reappears, and gives a monologue of her own. She tells of a family send off she went on to Disneyland when she was about their son Jesse’s age.\r\nAlong the way, her father woke the family up in Arizona, so they could see a grown dam at night. It was during that time that she was fascinate by a rainbow she saw at night. The next night, while the family was camping out, Evalana saw a distant town that please her, â€Å"shining with t iny stars that weren’t actually stars, surrounded by rainbows that weren’t very rainbows. ” She reveals that she imagined she was born in that town, and that was the place the family was top dog to instead of Disneyland.\r\nFollowing Evalana’s monologue, it is revealed that Jesse has compulsive off without them. Clay and Evalana look at each other, the gun still in Clay’s mouth, and Evalana proceeds to off the gun from his mouth, and aims it at him. Overall, this was a boffo play which had conflicts between the eccentric persons, and ended in a twist in which their son abandons them in the desert. The play reveals the tragedy of a man who wants to prove himself to his family, and his own son abandons him and leaves both him and his wife stranded in the end.\r\nI homogeneousd the story and the tensions in this play, as well as the remnant I did not expect coming. However, I did not like the long monologues told by both Clay and Evalana, whic h I erect hard to follow. In addition, the fact that no sentences began with capital letters made the play hard to read. I feel like the play could have improved if it did not have such long monologues, and shorter bits of character dialogue with each other.\r\n'