So this concert i went to....(Beyond Class #1)

So I went to this concert last weekend, and  it was fantastic. Why? Of course there were a bunch of artists there and the tickets were cheap and stuff. That's not what it was so great. I know this is the typical thing a black person would say, but there was free stuff EVERYWHERE. It was a convention center concert. so while the artists were doing their thing on the stage, their were venders giving out free stuff and samples and stuff. My dad won free tickets to a fancy restaurant and concert, I got free tshirts, water bottles, sunglasses, bags of candy, hand sanitizers, coupons, nail files, mirrors, I mean the list goes on and on. I left that concert with so much free stuff i needed two bags to carry it all. Not to mention I also had the chance to meet and take a picture with my most favorite gospel male singer ever! along with a finalist from B.E.Ts TV show "Sunday Best". I was so excited i almost cried. This gospel singer is a beautiful, beautiful, man. and he hugged me. I have proof! I encourage my readers to look up Wess Morgan.  He can sing like a black man even though he's clearly white. But you will be amazed. So yeah that was my experience. The end

Why The Hills Like White Elephants Is Tricky

A while ago, we read the "Hills Like White Elephants" story and although now I know it's about abortion, the ending doesn't really let you know how it ends. So, this is what I would do if I was in the Woman's situation. But, this is just me.  First off, if the guy was so obviously trying to make me get an abortion, my first reaction would be. "Why?" if the answer wasn't already evident. it seems to me like he wants to leave me and get away with it scott free. Either that or he made a mistake and doesn't want to live up to it. To both, my answer would be no. She asked if he would love her if she got the abortion.  Of course he's not going to say no. Until she gets that abortion he's gonna say everything she wants to hear. Now, I've never been pregnant, but I would never get an abortion. That's just me. For one, it would be my fault that the baby got there unless I was raped. Secondly, the baby didn't do anything to me, and it's not the baby's fault that a mistake was made. That baby is a human just like me, and everyone else. I couldn't kill a hamster much less a human being. So if i was in that women's situation, I would keep the baby and say "screw you" to the father. He can't make me commit a murder. Why is it if I killed the baby a minute after it was born I could be jailed for life or given the death penalty, but if I kill it a few weeks earlier its completely different? I'm going off on a tangent here because this is a topic I've defended for years. I don't understand why a simple thing such as age defines when its right to kill. The story sickened me because babies are seen like objects that you can just get rid of if you don't want it. They're not toys, or clothes that didn't fit you quite right. You don't get receipts or layaway. I would do everything in my power to raise that baby whether I was alone or not. If a baby is enough for a man to leave you, especially if it's his baby, then he didn't really love you in the first place. I don't know what time period the story is set in, but in modern day, it is pretty common for there to be single mothers all across the world. I would gladly choose to be one of those if given the choice to murder my flesh and blood, or raise it to be a model citizen who, in the end, I'll be glad to have.

The Glass Menagerie Alternate Ending

Okay, so we've read and watched the glass menagerie. However, even thought the story is the easiest one to understand out of everything we've read so far, the ending is completely vague and unfinished. So Tom leaves, and returns and they're gone. Then what? The audience is left hanging in this play. This is how I think it should have ended. I believe that Tom should leave, squander all of his savings and have to come crawling back to his annoying mother Amanda like the prodigal son. Amanda doesn't hesitate in bombarding him with speeches involving "I told you so". Tom then scans the house looking for Laura, who is nowhere to be found. Jim and his fiancé didn't work out, and he and Laura had started a life together. Meanwhile, Tom stays, nurturing his now dying, aging mother, whose final words are "Thank, you Tom. Although it never seemed like it, but I've never stopped being proud of you…" She finally dies and Tom is free to do whatever he pleases, learning from his past mistakes and moving forward with the reassurance that his mother didn't die resenting him for leaving. The End. Now, I think that's an ending that would leave an audience more satisfied than the ambiguous, unresolved ending.  That, my friends, is how you end a play.

 Cut, scene, that's a wrap, and all that jazz.

yours truly,

Destinee, the Substitute Playwright