Nagat. Almatare

English 102

Professor: Polish

Rough Draft Research Paper

 

 

 

In the play (Anon(ymous), Anon had traveled from one place to another looking for his mother and wanting to go back home because none of the places where is birth home. Anon had to leave his real home with his mother because of war but, Anon drowned on a boat as his family tried to run away from death. Anon’s mother still had hope in her heart that her son might be alive somewhere. People can run away from war because they’re fear of death but death can follow us in different aspect of the world. So why the play writer Naomi Lizuka wrote that Anon drowned without giving a clear conclusion to the play? Was Anon died and he was seeing the next world? Was Anon a live but dreaming in his coma? Was this all dream because of what he had gone through in his journey of running away from a war? This play reminds me of Shakespeare’s Play: “Hamlet’s delay lies neither in his incapacity for swift action nor in the overwhelming difficulty of eliminating Claudius, the readers seem to have reached a frustrating dead end in their understanding of Shakespeare’s greatest work. Fortunately for them, however, a psychoanalytic reading of the play may provide the necessary means through which Hamlet’s seemingly inexplicable behavior can be rationalized”.( Sihyun)1. In many cases readers expect a conclusion in a play: sometimes it can be a happy or sad ending.

Anon explored different places like when the white rich family rescued him and the rich family’s daughter felt that she owned Anon because of her rich father who owns land and mountains. Anon felt that was never his home so he left, kept on traveling to find what he calls “home”. Anon’s mother in the play worked for a sewing factory where the white rich family came and told her that they have rescued a boy from drowning in the water, but that boy ran away because he wanted to go home, the place of his birth.

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  1. Nagat,

    This is super — I love the series of questions you’re asking, and your connection to Hamlet is wonderful!

    I’d encourage you to really delve deeper into the quote you’re citing: don’t just let it stand on its own. Expand on it, tell your reader how it’s relevant here, etc. Give some context about Hamlet and the uncertainties of certain realities in that play. What impact do those uncertainties have on the audience?

    Your second paragraph does a great job of summarizing the beginning of the play, but I’d encourage you as you move forward to make sure a deep analysis is happening as well — you say in the beginning that you’re not sure if Anon is even dead or alive: your second paragraph might be a great place to really start diving into the specific textual evidence for why you’re not sure. What specific things happen in the text that make us as an audience unsure and disoriented? What impact does that have on the way the story is told and the messages that Iizuka might be sending?

    (And, by the way, the playwright’s last name begins with an I, not an L — an easy mistake to make because some fonts make them look the same, but just fyi!)

    Thanks so much for this — I’m excited to see where it winds up!

    JP

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