Passing Strange
please write a 3 pages essay from one of the three topics down.
Here are the topic suggestions for Passing Strange. There is a good bit of overlap in these topics, but hopefully one of them will be worded in a way that helps give you a jumpstart to write about the show.
1) Young Stew is continually trying to be understood. In what ways is this a show about what Young Stew doesn’t understand?
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2) Talk about the show in terms of its opposing themes of Love and Understanding.
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3) Stew tells Young Stew that his “song was just passing for love.” “Passing” is a recurring idea we hear throughout the show. What does Passing Strange mean by “passing”? What types of “passing” go on during the show? And why does Stew say that Young Stew’s “song was just passing for love”?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X0x1Pra3tQ Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvkzADbap34 Part 2
……….Answer Preview………..Passing strange is a comedy drama talking about a young African American artist’s journey to Europe for self discovery on musical field. In Act one, the narrator describes himself as stew. The narrator and Youth have been interacting with the characters all over the play through their performance as a singer. Youth’s talent developed through continuous attendance to church services of which he had been encouraged by his mom. Youth later joins the church choir because of a young girl whom he had fallen in love with (Citro, 2010). The narrator explain to us that it is not a really love between the two because the girl belonged to the pastor. This period was in 1970s when he became a member of a choir group ……….
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