Percy's way of learning English

   Last Friday, Feb. 28th, I watched Mamma Mia. It's a musical drama written by Catherine Johnson.    The story of Mamma Mia is a story between mother, daughter and mother's lovers. Sophie is the name of the daughter, she was brought up by her mother. She wants to find out who her father is, so through her own wedding, she invites all three of Donna's former lovers over to try to find out who her father is.    As a student focus on clothes design, the costume is one thing that I really focus on. In my opinion, the choice of costume in this drama was really good. I've searched for the stills of Mamma Mia, which are very similar to the drama. For example, the bib short that Donna wears. This kind of clothes was used as work clothes in the beginning. In one scene, Donna took an electric drill, and the electric drill and suspenders showed the image of a worker. But in fact, she is not, so I think these clothes show that she is a relatively indepe...

In this scene, the first mention is the conflict between Benetha and George, and Benetha hopes that he can join the conversation about African Americans. But George was not interested in this. At the same time, their attitudes towards education have also conflicted. George feels that education can help people find jobs and become rich so that black people can be respected. But Benetha believes that education is a way to show her self-perception, and she hopes to change her position in society through black self-cognition. Mama and neighbors also clashed over whether blacks should seek assimilation. Finally, Walter's boss told Ruth he hadn't been working for three days. Walter told his family that he was very frustrated and felt that he was useless. Mama gave Walter the rest of the money for the house because of her sympathy and she wanted to leave Benetha a part of her education support. Walter became excited and confident again with the money.

At this scene, Walter back home after he gets drunk.  And Beneatha was wearing the clothes that Asagai has brought her to dance. This part shows a lot of African culture in America. Benetha really likes her culture, but George and Walter seem like they don't really like that. Walter may start to hate his own culture because he wants to integrate into white society, that is, a culture that whites don't like. But it is interesting that when Mama wanted to buy a house in a white community, he was actually very worried.

Walter: Son of mama, a black driver. He's straightforward. Brother of Benatha. 35 years old.  Walter Lee “In fact, here’s another fifty cents … Buy yourself some fruit today—or take a taxicab to school or something” Busy and loud song: money that’s what I want Mama Mom of Benetha and Walter. She wants to buy and move into a new house. 65 years old. “Well, I always wanted me a garden like I used to see sometimes at the back of the houses down home.” This shows her dream about a big house. religious Song: Follow God Benetha: She's sister of Walter. She's a black woman that wants to be independent. 20 years old. She wants to graduate from medical school. The only people in the world who are more snobbish than rich white people are rich colored people She's aggressive and stubborn. song:  Confident by D. Lovato

I think the most noticeable thing in this scene is Benetha's thinking about her social status as a black woman, and African culture. The emergence of Asagai in this scene leads to these ideas. Benetha wanted to be a free and independent woman, but this was obviously impossible in the environment at the time. Also, notice that Benetha changed her hairstyle to help her achieve this. Also in this scene, through Ruth's pregnancy, I think it can be inferred that Walter is indifferent to her. Walter was just thinking about how to get money to change his current poor life, which made me feel that he was also a very selfish person.

After reading the first scene,  the first thing I feel is that their life is actually very difficult. The reason is that they all live in the same house, including Lena's children who live with her after they get married and have children of their own. Another thing is that they need money very much. Lena needs money to buy a new house, her daughter also needs money to complete her education, and her son needs money to have a shop of his own. On the other hand, I think their needs also support their hope to continue to live, they need to work hard to achieve these goals.