Top 5 Adaptations

12 (Gia)
2 (Sarah)
6 (Dilyara)
8 (Marinda)
11a (Gianna)

Adaptations

Night Women
The son finds out what his mom does for work and tells his teacher nonchalantly.
The teacher asks the mom to have a meeting with her and has a meeting with her son separately. The teacher works out a deal with the mom to get her involved with the day women to start working until she gets enough money to stop working as a prostitute. Fast forward a three years, the mom is working full time as a day woman and she is visited by one of her old suitors. They have a conversation and she learns that the suitors wife left him right after she did. He brings her a gift that is actually poisoned and she dies and her son walks in on her dead.

Children of the Sea
It starts when they meet while her father is going for a meeting for his job and brings his daughter and she recognizes his voice.They spend more time together; go to the market and have a picnic near the water (he then gives her the nickname of daffodil) and she later sits in on one of his broadcasts. The father finds out and takes her away and takes her radio away for a week. He gives it back and she get a message from him to meet her at the station that night, (the daffodils should bloom tonight outside the station, waiting for them is beautiful) and she sneaks out to meet him. She goes but he isn't there, instead there's a note on the ground telling her that he knew he was going to be taken to jail and he left on a boat to escape but he wanted her to write to him every day and he would do the same so they would still be together.

Scene Discussion

I played and older version of Lili in the scene. I decided to have my character be somewhat dependent on her son, Guy, because her husband died a while ago. Although, I wanted her to show some independence by offering to pay for the coffee because in most cases that I have seen, the family members don't want one another paying for something for them. I also showed this by having Guy mention at the end that she needed to get to work. I thought it would be a good idea for her to move to America with her son for college so it would show how hard her and her son are working to get a better life. I wanted my character to tie into Zoni's character as more than just a possible love interest, so I mentioned how my cousin would listen to the radio station that Zoni worked for to make a vague connection between Zoni's character and mine through the love interest his character had in the first story. I knew that if I was playing Lili I would want to be single. I thought that this was a good choice because I figured it would take a very long time to get over the death of your husband, so I wanted to make sure the audience knew who she was and that she was single. I also decided to make her very cheerful and welcoming because from what I have observed, many people who have a lot of sadness at one point in their life tent to either be angry and hateful or gracious and happy. I thought that making her kind and delightful would make her more relatable for the audience.

Adaptive Scene

Ethan- Little Guy (18) College Student

Zoni- Louis (35) Office Job

Gia- Lili (33) Tailor/Seamstress

Setting- Miami, Florida. Coffee Shop.

Zoni is reading a newspaper as Gia and Ethan walk in.

Gia: “Guy, I don’t want you paying for me this time.”

Ethan: “Nonsense mom, it’s the least I can do for you. Now what are you getting this time?”

Zoni: “I suggest the Caramel Dark Roast, best one in Miami.”

Gia: “Oooh, that does sound good. Thank you for the suggestion…”

Zoni: “Louis.”

Gia: “Lili”

They shake hands

Gia: “Thank you Loius.”

Ethan: to the cashier “Two Caramel Dark Roasts please.”

Gia sits down with Louis.

Gia: “Best coffee in Miami, eh?”

Zoni: “Yeah, I’ve been here long enough to know what’s good and authentic.”

Gia: “Where did you come from then?”

Zoni: “Haiti, moved here 10 years ago.”

Gia: “I thought you were haitian, your accent is depreciating. My son and I moved here last year for his college.”

Ethan: “Graduated second best in my class in high school. Heres your coffee.”

Gia: “Thank you. He really made quite the effort to get us over here. So what do you do for work?”

Zoni: “I work at a radio station, I take the early morning shift for the show.”

Ethan: “That sounds like an interesting job, did it require a lot of experience?”

Zoni: “Yeah, back in Haiti I had my own show on the radio, mostly political rants.”

Gia: “My cousin used to listen to the radio all the time, she absolutely loved it.”

Zoni: “We had a lot of listeners from all over the place.”

Gia: “That’s so fascinating.”

Ethan: “Mom, I should really get you to work; it’s getting late.”

Gia: “Okay, Guy. It was nice talking to you, Loius.”

Zoni: “It was my pleasure. I’m sure I will see you here again.”

Gia: “I believe you will.”

Zoni goes back to reading his newspaper as Gia and Ethan exit.

Night Women

In Class Writing

1937 Notes