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Rpugh: Commentary

2006-04-27T03:33:01Z

Commentary

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	==Commentary==		==Commentary==
			The opening stage directions of this scene tell the reader that the time of the play starts in late October. Comparatively, the end of the year approaching signifies upcoming change in the lives of people. This scene is also full of forshadowing. Like The rabbi even says at the end of the scene that soon "All of the old world will be dead" (Kushner 17). The rabbi seems to be simply going through the motions with this funeral, as he has with many funerals in the past. He admits that he never knew Sarah Ironson, but he knows what kind of person she was.

			He then becomes the first character in the play to criticize what America has become. While reflecting on what Sarah wanted in life, the rabbi talks about how the Jewish forefathers struggled so that their children " would not grow up ''here''" (Kushner 16). He calls America "the meltingpot where nothing melted" (Kushner 16). By this, he means that America is composed of several groups of cultures, but they never really mixed, or melted, together. Such a divided community, the Jewish leaders think, was exactly what they were trying to run from by coming to the Americas.

	==Study Questions==		==Study Questions==
	#The beginning scene takes place at who's funeral?		#The beginning scene takes place at who's funeral?
	#She is the grandmother of which character?		#She is the grandmother of which character?
			#What is the only non-Jewish name of one of Sarah Ironson's grandchildren?
	#During the rabbi's eulogy he tells the family that Sarah was the kind of person that brought the villages with her to America. Where did these villages come from?		#During the rabbi's eulogy he tells the family that Sarah was the kind of person that brought the villages with her to America. Where did these villages come from?
	#What Great Voyages no longer exist?		#What Great Voyages no longer exist?

Kfox: /* External Resources */

2006-04-19T03:42:22Z

External Resources

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	==External Resources==		==External Resources==
			[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/meltingpot/melt0222.htm The Myth of the Melting Pot: America’s Racial and Ethnic Divides.]

	==Works Cited==		==Works Cited==

Kfox: /* Study Questions */

2006-04-19T03:29:09Z

Study Questions

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	#What Great Voyages no longer exist?		#What Great Voyages no longer exist?
	#What was Sarah Ironson's husband's name?		#What was Sarah Ironson's husband's name?
			#Rabbi Chemelwitz describes America as a “strange place, in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melting_pot melting pot] where nothing melted (16).” Does this mean that immigrants of different cultures and races do not fit into an integrated American society?

	==External Resources==		==External Resources==

Lbrown: /* Notes */

2006-04-16T19:58:15Z

Notes

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	*'''Grand Concourse Avenue''' (16) - a [http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?addr=grand+concourse+avenue&csz=bronx%2C+ny&country=us&new=1&name=&qty= street] in the Bronx.		*'''Grand Concourse Avenue''' (16) - a [http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?addr=grand+concourse+avenue&csz=bronx%2C+ny&country=us&new=1&name=&qty= street] in the Bronx.

	*'''Mohicans'''(17) a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahican member] of an American Indian tribe living in or around the Hudson Valley.		*'''Mohicans''' (17) a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahican member] of an American Indian tribe living in or around the Hudson Valley.

	==Commentary==		==Commentary==

Kfox: /* Study Questions */

2006-04-14T23:15:46Z

Study Questions

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	#The beginning scene takes place at who's funeral?		#The beginning scene takes place at who's funeral?
	#She is the grandmother of which character?		#She is the grandmother of which character?
	#During the rabbi's eulogy he tells the family that Sarah was the kind of person that brought the ~~villiages~~ with her to America. Where did these villages come from?		#During the rabbi's eulogy he tells the family that Sarah was the kind of person that brought the villages with her to America. Where did these villages come from?
	#What Great Voyages no longer exist?		#What Great Voyages no longer exist?
	#What was Sarah Ironson's husband's name?		#What was Sarah Ironson's husband's name?

Shill: /* Works Cited */

2006-04-10T23:47:34Z

Works Cited

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	[[Angels in America \| ~~Angels in America Part 1~~ Act 1 Scene 2]]		[[Angels in America \| Millennium Approaches Act 1 Scene 2]]

	[[Category:Literature]]		[[Category:Literature]]

Shill: /* Works Cited */

2006-04-10T23:45:01Z

Works Cited

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	[[Angels in America \| Angels in America Act 1 Scene 2]]		[[Angels in America \| Angels in America Part 1 Act 1 Scene 2]]

	[[Category:Literature]]		[[Category:Literature]]

Shill: /* Works Cited */

2006-04-10T23:28:03Z

Works Cited

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	[[Angels in America \| Angels in America Act 1 Scene 2]]		[[Angels in America \| Angels in America Act 1 Scene 2]]

			[[Category:Literature]]

Shill at 22:58, 10 April 2006

2006-04-10T22:58:40Z

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	==Works Cited==		==Works Cited==
	*Kushner, Tony. ''Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes''. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1995.		*Kushner, Tony. ''Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes''. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1995.

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			[[Angels in America \| Angels in America Act 1 Scene 2]]

Lbrown: /* Notes */

2006-04-10T02:14:59Z

Notes

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	*'''Grand Concourse Avenue''' (16) - a [http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?addr=grand+concourse+avenue&csz=bronx%2C+ny&country=us&new=1&name=&qty= street] in the Bronx.		*'''Grand Concourse Avenue''' (16) - a [http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?addr=grand+concourse+avenue&csz=bronx%2C+ny&country=us&new=1&name=&qty= street] in the Bronx.

	*'''Mohicans'''(17) a [http://~~www~~.~~m-w~~.~~com~~/~~dictionary~~/~~Mohicans~~] ~~member~~ of an American Indian ~~people of southeastern Connecticut~~.		*'''Mohicans'''(17) a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahican member] of an American Indian tribe living in or around the Hudson Valley.

	==Commentary==		==Commentary==