Finishing Neighborhood 3

• I'd like you to try to describe what you expect to see when you see the play performed.

I am excited to see how the characters interact on stage. The dialogue in the book is really open to interpretation and I think seeing the actors inject personality into the characters will help make the play more interesting for me. 

• Why are scenes 9 and 10 formatted differently than the rest of the play? 

I think scenes 9 and 10 are formatted differently because they are more dramatic: the real drama starts later in the play as the characters lose touch with reality and are sucked into the game. 

• In 10 when Blake shoves himself away from the computer why is he shivering? Why is it significant that the last word is "Mom?"

Prior to this moment, Blake only referred to his mother by her first name. He is distant from his mother. I am unsure where Blake lays in the blurred line of fantasy and reality and I think he is too. He seems to snap out of it when he says "Mom" and looks for his mother. He kills her in that game and I think he's nsure