Our Workshops: A Collaborative Effort to Analyze and Present

 Workshop 1: Love Is Blind, Or Is It?

For this workshop, our group focused on Streetcar Named Desire, specifically on Blanch Dubois. Her character encompassed many facets that she hid from others and also denied the truth to herself. She had a problem with figuring out reality versus illusion and our group project really explored her personality and traits she displayed.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-ySFGP7qBGhlvMlYX4cRhEqH7uedfk7JxiNZLP6kq4g/edit?usp=sharing

Workshop 2: Children of the Sea by Edwidge Danticat 

Our group focused on this short story about a young Haitian man who had to flee political violence by boat while the girl he loves is still in Haiti. It showed the obstacles he faced and the separate, fear and hope experienced as the Government forces people to escape their own homeland.

 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15afHheC2PQtaxRAkuvH5HcibFXinbb0xq2Ug7HqowvE/edit?usp=sharing

Workshop 3: Analyzing Poem & Song

The poem  and song I chose for this are When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats and When We Were Young by Adele.  Both of the poems are in the link below - each one is on a page by itself to review. Both of these works are exploring love .  Each one is on a page by itself to review. These works are exploring love and how it changes as time goes by. So in both of the songs the time involved shows what the love really meant to the author but there is a major difference between the two.  The poem written by Yeats looks forward into old age. And the singer/songwriter, Adele, is looking backwards into youth. In the poem he looks at his love and believes many people will remember her for her beauty but he is saying that he truly loves her for her soul and always will.  This is showing that his love is very real and deep. It sounds like maybe he is not with her but he is in love with her and is trying to convince her that he is in love with her. In the song by Adele she is not imagining old age, she is going back to a time in the past in her youth. It seems like she has met a person who was once her lover. She appears to be emotional and still longing for that person. The similarities in these works is where both authors seem to be seeing the person's real and true identity beneath the surface.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kylUnjEN_Iqtw3VK80Cc5l79Zfj3dJIjyIm-vk-4dWE/edit?usp=sharing