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Oral Presentation

Our group combined the story of Little Red Riding Hood and My love My love because I think two stories share lots of similarities. For example, Ti Moune travel through the forest to see Daniel, little red riding hood travel through forest to see her grandmother. Also both stories have a bad guy behind and making conspiracy trying to stop them from seeing people who they loved which is Papa Ge and Big bad wolf. However, those two stories have different endings. That is because the story of little red riding hood is a fairy tale and My love My love is a story for adult which reflects the reality. Therefore, I want to combine those two stories to show how cruel reality is compared to fairy tale.  
The characters we pick are Papa Ge which is the Big bad wolf, Ti Moune which is little red riding hood, Daniel which is the grandma, and Ezurille which is the wood chopper. We also add Andrea in order to show the classes difference that exist in the reality compare to the fairy tale, which present the gaps between rich and poor by letting Daniel choose from Ti Moune and Andrea.

In the play, my role is to act as all of the evil characters such as Papa Ge, and the Guardian. The significant of my role is to show the cruel site of the reality, which create tons of difficulties to Ti Moune. For example, I control Daniel and wake him up from his impulsive decision which is to married Ti Moune by leading Daniel to find Andrea who is a white girl who is also in the same class as Daniel. In that way, I form a contrast with Ezurille who represent the fairy tale part of the play.  I distinguish my two unique characters by using different voice, body languages, and costumes. When I act as Papa Ge, my voice is really sharp, and usually end my lines with a creepy laugh; I wear a wolf mask on my face to show the connection with the story little red ridding hood, and I always make sneaky actions and creepy sound to show that I am an evil character who is always trying to stop Ti Moune from achieving her dreams. When I act as the guardian, I always shout out my lines and speak with no manners; I also take off my mask and black coat to differ from Papa Ge.

We stage our play mostly in the center stage, and adding black out and soundings to separate the play to different scenes. By adding costumes, popes, and different settings the play become more realism.

To sum up, though play I connect a fairy tale and a story based on reality to extrude how cruel reality is. By acting my characters such as Papa Ge, I learned how to be sneaky and evil and this is the first time I act as a bad guy in the play which is a very different feeling. However, try out different characters is always an interesting thing to me!