How I Learned to Drive

         As I read the play “How I Learned to Drive” written by Paula Vogel, I felt very disgusting and shocking, and wanted to stop the reading.  In the first scene of the play, I thought Li’l Bit and Peck were just like a normal couple.  However, when I found out that Peck was Li’l Bit’s uncle, I felt so disgusting and frustrating.  Even though they are not blood related, it made me sick when Peck and Li’l Bit spending time together and having physical touches.  It was more shocking when I realized that Peck is a married man.  Not only he is cheating on his wife, but also disrespecting and betraying his own family.  It is stated in the play that Peck had a problem with alcohol in the past, and now he is having a problem with pedophilia.  When Peck was dead, I never felt sorry for him since all he had done was wrong and unbelievable, and thought that he deserved the death.  Not only Peck made the play shocking and disgusting, but also Li’l Bit made me sick.  The main reason why Peck and Li’l Bit had this kind of relationship was mostly, Li’l Bit’s fault because she is the one who did not stop the relationship with Peck even though her mother warned her to get away from Uncle Peck.  She knew this relationship was crazy, and it is going to hurt many people, but she built the relationship with Peck and everything got messed up after that.  I am not sure that Vogel intended to disgust the audiences, but this was the first play that I have read so far that made me sick. 

Top Girls

         In the play “Top Girls” written by Caryl Churchill, I find very confusing, but most interesting in Act one.  The style of the play is very annoying to readers like me who have to translate English into their own language to understand the story.  As I finish reading a line, then the person who speaks in the next line talks about different things.  There are many kinds of these situations that made me very confuse to follow and understand the story.  If lines are short, they are not a problem.  However, when there are lines that are long and not related each other, I had to read at least twice to see what they are saying because I forget what I translated in the previous line.  Although the style of the writing is very complex, I find the most interesting in Act one among the play.  Everyone in Act one has serious and interesting past and especially, Pope Joan who had disguised as a man to study and later become a pope is the most interesting character.  It seems like she made a very huge success in the time when there is feminism.  I wondered how she could not have been caught even though she dresses like a man and how could she become a pope without any doubts.  Although the character Joan sounds unrealistic, I enjoyed her story very much.