2-2 Short Response Correction PDF

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Short response in regards to an artifact that had to be chosen from the Irish Culture....

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Amanda Burnie 9/13/2020 Two artifacts that I have chosen to continue in this course is a poem written by Eileen Carney Hulme called “Belonging” and the Irish play “Dancing at Lughnasa” by Brian Friel. The reason I chose these two artifacts is the poem really speaks to me. I feel as if it about someone dying but is still always there with you. The play “Dancing at Lughnasa” symbolizes a sickness that is still carried around to this day and how everything changed in his life. The artifact that I would like to focus on the most is “Dancing at Lughnasa”. When looking at the play, it really makes you think about someone close to you becoming sick. Right now, we are also in a time where there is a threat to our families because of a disease that can be contracted. Storyline is based in Uganda and travelled back to Lughnasa. You can see the sickness in him, hear the cries and arguments through his loved ones. There would not be a taste sense in the play unless you see people eating something. The smell may be within the time and location that they are, also depending on the season. As most plays are, they try and touch your heart and play with your emotions a bit (in a good way). You go from different ranges of emotions, such as happy to sad to angry then back to happy. In this play, everything goes from being fine to having something happen to someone so close to you and you are not able to do anything about it. Tension on what if scenarios amongst siblings can become overwhelming. Then everything beings to crumble. Its purpose is to make you think more instead of lashing out in the heat of the moment. This artifact interrelates with history because of the medical help they had back in the 1930’s compared to now are incredibly different. Learning from the History of the brother contracting Malaria then and Malaria now are two different worlds in which you are more likely to survive from it now due to better medicine. As this happened in Ireland 85 years ago the relevance of it now can be quite eerie....