Character Analysis

        The character I am going to play is the daughter from "New York Day Women" at two different ages --- around 15 and 30. Since she grew up in the United States, her clothes would be same as what her American friends usually wear. Unlike her mother, she does not have any Haitian accent while speaking English. She would be looked just like an ordinary American except her different Haitian face and black skin. 

        Throughout the play, the daughter would go through a series of emotional change. When the daughter is at 30 year-old (both in the beginning & end), she has become pretty mature. At this moment, she is not the girl who would say "My mother, who talks to herself when she peels off the skin off poultry" anymore. She has already known all the difficulties her mother had been endured by herself, all the sacrifice her mother made for her, and what the word "Haiti" means to her mother. She  starts being considerate and understand her mother. That is why I set up a scene that she is patiently braiding her mother's hair at the beginning, which is another way to show that the daughter also starts to learn and accept the Haitian tradition. Strongly contrast with the daughter at 30 year-old, when she was still 15 year old at middle school, she was a kind of emotional adolescent. She knew nothing about what happened to her mother, and nothing about Haiti. She was jealous about the others' mother-daughter relationship, and blamed her mother for her indifference to her growth. However, when she first saw her mother crying, and how her mother tried to hide her depressing emotion from her when she received a letter from Haiti, she suddenly realized that her mother was not as "bad" as what she thought. Such feeling change or growth would be the most part I want to highlight to the audience in my performance, which would also become the most obstacle.