The playwrights may have had to do some research of the issues facing youth in modern America. Some issues include, familial responsibility, self-actualization, addiction and police brutality.
Some research about addictions would be helpful. Finding information about what causes it, and why it’s so hard for people to break out of it would be helpful. I never experienced addiction and it confuses me, so I want to find out more about it.
Scholarly articles ones in the field of psychology could be helpful, statistics can be useful too.
The conflicts shown in this play stun me. They are all emotionally hard hitting. The story of Alex and the story of Mike, interest me the most. Janelle’s story arch, makes me emotional.
Using different forms of research will help me create deeper and more informed analysis, as opposed to just using information from the top of my head. The analysis will become stronger this way.
Research means finding more information, finding more perspective to a certain topic.
Research should be guided and motivated by, the will, the need to find out more. If you aren’t interested in what you are researching, what’s the point of finding more information about this topic at all? Curiosity is what has always driven man to learn and do more. You have got to have that question inside your head to conduct proper research.
Nawal,
I’m very intrigued by the direction you want to go in this paper! (Of course, you’re not married to it and it’s okay if it changes!) I wonder what direction you might head regarding addiction and Mike and Alex (particularly in the case of the way that Alex’s possible alcoholism is brought up in the beginning and then we never really see him in the context of knowing whether that’s true/how he’s handling it/if he’s handling it, etc). Your research question, too, would have to be very specific (researching “addiction” would get so unwieldy!!). We’ll talk about developing research questions in class tomorrow, though, so no worries! We’re all going to work on this together! I very much look forward to seeing what you come up with!