Difference between reading and acting
Reading is a skill that is taught at one point in
our lives, it’s a way of learning and expressing one’s self with words. Reading
open ones imagination and also it makes one understand also about life and
grasp the importance of its benefits. Likewise reading helps one with their
ability to think outside the box especially when it comes to their writing
skills. Whereas acting is when an individual pretends to be someone other than
themselves, it’s like a form of expressing one’s self through fictional
beliefs, Acting brings more enthusiasm to the story because if one is reading,
they may sometimes get lost in what they are reading whereas if they actually
acted out the play, they would enjoy it more and get a better understanding of
the story.
Summary of Act 1
Dennis Scott recalls the painful memories of the
slaves and the hardships. “An Echo in the Bone” was written to understand the
present in terms of the past. This
timeline entails the framework of the play which is called the Nine-Nighty
Ceremony. A man by the name of Crew who was a black peasant, was missing from Maas
Charlie, the white estate owner had been killed. Crew killed him because of racial tension. In the year 1937 in Kingston, Jamaica, Crew friends
and family was searching for him for a long time but they were finally
convinced that he had died. Rachel who was the wife of Crew in her late 40s and
her daughter-in-law Brigit who is two months pregnant in her 20s , had a traditional
ritual gathering that is a part of the Jamaica culture held nine nights after someone
had died , they called it the Nine-Night Ceremony . Rachel was trying to
communicate with the soul of her deceased husband Crew ensuring him that all is
well. She sent him off with cheerful noise of rejoicing and meanwhile they were
celebrating the death of Crew, some of the people at the ritual were
re-enacting the oppression we black people had to face back in the days.
