Lost Girl Exercises 120-123 Notes

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 - in class I broke down my monologue into different chunks as well as beginning middle and end

- the beginning of the monologue Wendy is dull and is staring off into space as she talks 

- a change occurs when she says "so I'm sorry you have a problem with sad," - she sits up more and talks more directly to the audience 

- another change when she says the eight minutes a day part, then another change when she transitions into memory and stands up on the chair

- another change when she comes back into reality, goes back to dull

- another change when she comes more alert, but overall sad at the end 

- I annotated my monologue with each change, pauses, chunks, etc. 

- the given circumstances are that Wendy is in her room, just sulking and being sad curled up in a chair, what has happened is her mom has accused her of being sad all the time, the time is irrelevant because Wendy hardly pays attention to things like time, she is with her mom but in her own world at the same time, and she can see everything around her, but she is almost refusing to look and accept reality so she just stares off into space or at the ground or her hand

- Wendy's objective in the parts where she is not in lost in memory is to explain herself and explain why she is more comfortable being sad, to justify her actions and her behavior. While she is lost in memory her objective is to be free and be childlike again, to be happy

- I have picked several actions throughout, such as examining my hand, switching positions in the chair, standing up on the chair, possible moving my hands as if I'm flying, and examining my hand again. 

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