Mama Day

As we mentioned in class, I dont feel as if the play really connected with the tempest at all. After reading A thousand acres and seeing how closely it was related to King Lear, it is hard to see any direct connections with the tempest in this novel. Though there aren't any direct connection within this novel I do see small aspects ofthe play within this novel such as, magic, the storm, and maybe George and Cocoa have some relation to Miranda and her husband in the tempest, but besides these small detail i dont feel like Naylor really wanted to make this Novel as a reamke of the tempest. The consequence of thinking this Novel was remake of the tempest can cause you to miss ceretain points of the book or miss important detail. When i First began to read this novel I was trying to make connection with the tempest but things werent really adding up, and for me it sort of made the novel harder to read and pick up exactly what was going on. The novel is pretty much completely different from the play, it has some aspects that go along with the play, such as the storms and the magic, but there is no real connection between the play and the novel. I believe Naylor may have written this loose adaption to get more attention to her novel from critics and those interested in shakespeare.

Prospero's plan

From my point of view at the beginning of the story Prospero's main plan was to sabotage and seek revenge on those who wronged him. at the beginning of the story i seen him as just someone who abused the power he held, but it was pretty much built up anger he was trying to release on the people who wronged him. As the story started to end there was a change in prospero's attitude as a whole. In act 5 the dialogue changed as well as prosperos. Him and Ariel actually had a conversation where he would actually listening to what Ariel had to say and what Ariel's opinion was. Si i noticed his attitude changed and i also believe his plan changed over all because he actually started to look at what it was he was doing and he somewhat let that revengeful attitude drift away.