Reflective essay

Daniel Alvarez

12-9-7

Reflective essay

I believe the moral or the key message would have to be to try and accept yourself for who you are or don’t try and change your life for someone else. All three of them show that a lot they go to the extreme for other people. Although, for Wanda, because she is searching for love but she still does bad things to her body just for men.

Lisa Loomer says many things about today’s society, and what people believe to be beauty. One way isshe shows this through the eyes of the three main characters. The first and most important one would have to be how some people go to the extreme just to look “Beautiful”. Some of these are starvation, surgery, and many weight loss programs. Many times people do this for others because they think that it will make themselves more attractive to others. Loomer also tries and shows some of the dangers that can happen to you, mainly through the eyes of Wanda.

Forgiveness from heaven- I think that throughout the second scene she really becomes her own person. She gains confidence and starts to get mad at her husband because he is always brings home new wives. She wants to do what she wants and begins to stick up for herself by not being pushed around by her husband. At the very end of act two, she takes off her bandages and that is when I really saw her becoming her own person and shows that she is going to do whatever she wants.

Wanda- In the beginning all she cared about was her appearance and what other men thought of her. Once she found out that there was a possibility that she could have breast cancer and then she did, it really affected her greatly cause she felt that that was her whole life. There was one scene where Wanda calculated all the time she spent on makeup and other products. She said “I am just going to stop wearing makeup and I don’t care what other people think”. To me, that really showed that she was her own person and she didn’t care what others thought.

Victoria- I didn’t really see her evolve that much in the end like how I saw the others. She said in one part at the end “ok I have to put on my twenty pounds of clothes and corset”. In my eyes, it showed that she was still basically under a spell of her husband just so he would still love her. I think that he should have just loved her for who she is and not for what she looks like.

Larry was always trying to get his drug passed because he knew that he would have made a lot of money. Ken knew that there could’ve been a possibility of HIV/Aids so he couldn’t have let that drug pass. He stopped it outside of the U.S so many people in my circle didn’t know why and if he had the control over drugs outside the states. To me, Loomer is saying that even sometimes when the manufacture knows that there is a possibility of HIV or any other potential threats, they will still try their hardest to get it passed. I believe the reason for this is so that they are able to still make money.

I think that she wrote her play like this because she wanted to show a moral to her story and show that sometimes trying to make yourself beautiful can affect you. I think this script works well in the sense of showing you how beauty images have changed over a vast time period and what women went through and still go through just to make themselves beautiful.