1. Parallels: New York comes up on pages 22 and 27. Rice has lived in New York before and he talks often about his buddy there.
On pages 22 and 26, Ethiopia comes up. Frank says he was offered a job on a convoy in Ethiopia and Rice says he knows enough to write a book about Ethiopia. Probably no connection but it shows that Rice is smart and Frank is just a traveller. Rice understands and Frank knows.
2.I've seen flowers come in the first pages. Molly talked about her childhood and how she learned to see using flowers. These flowers are like Molly,s trextbooks.
3. Frank wants Molly to get her vision restored and he has this belief in Rice. In that sentence, he accidentally uses the word agnostic, which means a person who doesn't believe in God.
4. It feels like Frank is valuing the operation that could restore Molly's vision. Molly values her blindness. Rice values his career. Molly values her blindness.In tghe opening, Molly speaks of her blind childhood with a feeling of nostalgia. It also sounded somewhat happily on pages 9-11. On page 19, Molly says that swimming blind gave her joy. That is also evidence she values her blindness. Also on page 25, she questions her operation showing she's not 100% wanting it.
5. Molly's motivation is to make Frank happy. She wants to please him. Frank wants Molly to be normal, like everybody else. Rice wants his awesome career back. He used to be a famous and popular doctor in America and Europe and he's gone to many lectures but he ended up in Irish countryside and he fell from grace. He feels the Molly can bring him up again. On page 22, he says he felt like he was in a fantasy life again doing operations.
6. Frank's goat monologue felt funny and just a bit random. To stage it, I'd have him be active about the goats and mimic some of the actions he does with them like feeding. And I would just add some lively Irish jig or some Iranian music or even mix them together. Yes mix. And some goat noises.
7. He means that even though you can see the world around you, it doesn't mean you understand it. We can see the world of the South Side of Chicago, but it doesn't mean we understand the community there. We can see an object but not understand its function. We can distinguish these terms by thinking whether we know the world, place, object,etc. in the world around us. Or do we only see it?
8. She was protected and loved by her family even though she had a disability. Her childhood might be described as Edenic because her world was protectes and everything was described to her. Her garden was also physically walled off.
