Proposal/ Transaction

Honestly, I think we did a good job with coming up with a whole new idea. When we first started it was not very good. We did not really come up with new dialogue but rather stuck to the story itself. With the new script, we tried to broaden our horizons a bit. We looked back in the text at the story "1937." We realized something rather interesting. We all know that the mother dies from being beaten to death by the guards, but we never knew what drove the guards to do so. We decided to come up with a reason as to why they would beat a helpless women to death. We thought, if the mother tried to escape, they could easily get mad and beat her up, but we wanted more than that. So, we decided that the mother would take the blame for someone else trying to escape. What the audience did not know though, was that the mother knew she was going to die that day, almost as if she had a vision. A huge theme we noticed in the book overall was the use of  storytelling/magic. You see in the text the mother and the other women are said to have "wings made of fire." Therefore, we wanted the mother to have some sort of power so it could go along with the theme. If we had more time I would have loved to show more scenes. For example. we had a scene where the mother gave the daughter a note to give to the father/husband, but in the text the husband/father is never mentioned. We wanted to add the father into the story and portray how he would have felt in this situation. We also wanted to show the mother daughter relationship more. In "1937" the mother and daughter never talked, but this time we made the talk to each other, but we wanted the mother to be snappy, this way the audience could see their relationship crumbling. I'm sure the audience would have also loved to know what was said in the letter and therefore I think adding another scene or two would be interesting and less confusing. Overall, I think It was not bad and if we had more time it would have been great!