I wanted to share a poem i wrote in class, because i am so shy i never had the chance to express my feelings on this topic. This class gave me thee chance to express my thoughts on it.

Are we not the same?

Stopped,

Chocolate skin arrives from the dark corner

Wearing the enemy’s clothing

People gazing

Hands on his waist

Phones out recording

Hands up, don’t shoot; Michael Brown

Are you my brotha?

I think not

Why am I being stopped?

The clothes or color

Whatever you prefer

Nasty attitude after 1 phrase

Introduced me to the ground

Arms hugged my neck tight

Wait stop I can’t breathe; Eric Garner

Phones out and distant yells out

Who’s that?

No one knows me

But one yelled

Say her name; Sandra Bland

I yelled out you’re hurting me

His knees deep in my back

Another Freddie Gray counting down my last week

Bright lights are when I’ll appear again

Dim lights and accidental shooting

My chocolate skin is just as good as theirs

Guess I am Akai Gurley and accidents happen

No I am a brotha just like you

Maybe you are my brotha

In a different life or 2

Justice for me, justice for all

My brotha is my brotha

Look just like you

Hands up, don’t shoot!

Finishing Up

Since this is a partial week, any entries you make will be extra credit. Feel free to make some final comments about the class: What did you like best? What did you like least? What do you wish we had done more/less of? etc. You can also use this space to respond to your classmates' readings in the final class.

Neighborhood 3 ending

When I attend the play I expect to see how the characters interact with each other, how the stage is set up to portray the setting in the play, how the emotion is expressed by the characters, and the actors the play each character. I believe that scene 9 and 10 are different because it is the climax of the play and the most action happening. I think that the meaning of "mom?" At the end of the play because it shows how unconcerned or unaware of reality Blake was, until he killed his mother, that was the only time that she shown any sort of remorse or concern. This play shows how teenagers now days get so caught up in video games, technology, t.v that they lose touch of reality and don't have any actual relationship in the real life.

Neighborhood 3 Play

I  have to say after reading the play and then watching it I found it to be very interesting. It was expected to be as I thought about how it may be. I thought of the scenery a little different but the actors fit the role completely. They acted out the scenes very well also. I enjoyed the play and I definitely feel the lesson of it was the video game being based on virtual reality between a neighborhood filled with zombies in relation to parents and their kids. I see it as teenagers go through phases and one of the phases is they don't like what they're parents have to say about what their doing or what they think and one thing is video games. Some parents have a strong thing about that and in the video game the zombies eat away at things and in relation to the parents it's a kind of way teenagers feel at some point. I think this play was great and so was the play to read it. I got a lot out of it, I kind of wish the play went on and didn't end there. It was a good choice for the course I have to say.

PLAYS

I have never been one for plays. Part of the is my laziness. I hate having to cast the play before I read it just so I am able to understand it. In all the reading I have done recreational and assigned I have only eve liked plays by Arthur Miller. Something about how depressing his plays are excites and intrigues me. I appreciated Neighborhood 3 Requisition of Doom. The concept was great I just wish it dabbled more in the line between reality and the game. I would have liked to see more dysfunction and chaos. Unfortunately when it was time to end it really did end. Usually that is supposed to be a good thing where you are left wanting more but here I really wanted more of the story. More of the dysfunction. It was reminiscent of all those shows where suburbia has all those secrets. It was a quick read and I wasn't as invested as I should have been.

neighborhood 3 Final chapter

I felt like I struggled with what was reality and what was in game throughout the story especially with the end closing in it blurred the lines for me a lot. One big question that the end brought up for me was were the kids so in their games that they couldn't tell reality from the game because at the end blake killed his mother , or were things that were happening in the game actually happening in real life which is why Joy found Codys mother outside. My theory was that the game was creating a parallel universe where the game was no real life. Or maybe nothing ever happened at all. What if in the end the mother that we read about was actually in game, and he killed Joy in game and when he did he got so scared he snapped into reality, asking for her to see if it affected him in real life. Also if I am right about the game coming to life what happens to all the parents to they become zombies eventually like they are in the game, or do they just not exist anymore. Still plenty of blurred lines like I mentioned I'm hoping that watching the play answers all my questions.

Response to Neighborhood 3 Ending

- When I see this play, I expect to see young kids that are warped into this game. They are actually like zombies in the real world. I expect to see action going on within the game that is the focus, as well as outside of the game while they are still playing because the story progresses along with the games progression.

- When blake shoves himself away from the computer, he is shivering and his last word is "mom?" because the game and real life are parallel in this story. He killed his own mother without meaning to. Chapter 9 was told from the mom's perspective while chapter 10 was his when he came back to realization after he killed the final boss in the final house (his own) in the game.

- I think it's significant that the parent look like zombies for one of 2 reasons if not both. The first is that while the children were zombies from the perspective of the real world, or the outside world, it's only fitting that the opposite would be true in the world that came to substitute reality for the kids who played this game and became obsessed. Also, I think there may be a metaphor in making everyone a zombie in the game. It may represent how although the kids are zombies for the video game, everyone is a zombie to other things of the world.