KK Quiz 3 Part 2 -- Reflective Paper

In my group, I play the role of young Caroline in Caroline's wedding. The scene happens on the day after the day in New York Day Women chapter. I am not the main character, but I tried my best to represent this character. 

In the second scene, I started by sitting in a bench in New York Central Park, waiting for New York day woman to come. The whole scene happens on the bench, as a result, there is no blocking. When I was acting, I added many body movements. I was sitting on the left side of the bench, swinging my leg, then New York Day Woman comes to sit on my right. Before I act this scene, I considered Caroline is only about 10 years old, so her acts need to show her age. Many other actions like hand waving and looking up to think are also used to show Caroline's immature.  To be faithful to the original,  I tried not to move my left arm since Caroline only has one forearm. The reason why I chooses to move my right arm is that there is a part when I tell New York Day Woman a secret. I need to show audiences my whole face, so when using my right arm, it won't hide my face when I whisper in her ear. Beside my actions, I also focused on my voice and my words. I spoke softly, used words like Granny and um that many adults won't use.  

In the book, Krik? Krak!, it doesn't mention much about Caroline's childhood. So my partner and I put Caroline in the chapter New York Day Women. In this way, these three characters not only can be linked together, it can also show the theme that all Haitians are friend and take care of each other. Immigrants always tend to be friend with people who come from the same country as they do. So let New York Day Woman takes care of baby Caroline makes sense. A part of my script, which is Caroline’s parents all went to a funeral of Haitians, also shows this theme. Also, the relationship between New York Day Woman and her daughter is considerable. In the book, her daughter is kind of envious about the kids who were taken care by her mom, because those children share love with her. But in our scene, Caroline is just her mom’s friend’s young child who doesn’t take her mom’s love away at all. New York Day Woman’s daughter’s attitude changes from jealous to understanding.