The Piano Lesson Essay

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Critique: "THE PIANO LESSON"

In this critique, I am going to write about the movie "The Piano Lesson" this movie or play was written by American Playwright August Wilson. Wilson was born with the of name Frederick August Wilson and born in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The "Piano Lesson" was ward with the Pulitzer Prize for Best Drama. When Wilson started writing about this play he created a strong female character African American. This play "The Paino Lesson" it was most like in 1936 when United Stated was going thru the struggling with the Great Depression, and a black African American was moving north for the better life from the south they still wore 70 years after Emancipation." The Piano …show more content…

But Big Willie has bigger plans to sell the old piano. The piano is owned by both Berniece and Big Willie. When He arrival to the house against Dockers advice, Boy Willie went wakes his sister Berniece, and told the death of James Sutter, whose family once owned his ancestors. Berniece asks Big Willie to leave the house because she refuses even to consider the proposition her brother was trying to sell the piano. Berniece told her brother "Money can't buy what that piano cost." The history of the piano goes back long history of violence in the family when the piano was purchased for the Sutter plantation owner for his wife. The cost for this piano. Sutter's had to use some of the slaves. Sutter brought all his slaves, and the pick the grandmother and her young son for the purchase of the piano. Sutter's wife loves the piano some much but and the same time she was missed seeing them her two slaves, so he brought the great-grandfather who was an excellent woodworker to carver his wife and son face on the front the piano. Not only he did that; he added some other family tree on the sides of a piano and years later the family stole the piano out the Sutter's house. The brothers carried the piano it by a wagon to some realities to the next county. Some men stopped the train and

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