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the rehearsal reading notes - Coggle Diagram
the rehearsal reading notes
"finally feel like i can speak normally again"
only when you are accepted in a situation, society, whoever you are placed with; only then are you heard, and your voice is visible to the world
otherwise, when you are not accepted, that's when it feels like your voice is taken away from you
(but i think you never lose your voice; it only feels like you have no voice, because it feels like, no matter what you say, your words don't matter
"my voice returns to me" (pg. 3)
"i can talk normally again, like other people"
"like other people" - refers to comparing oneself to the other people
implying that the person speaking is "new" to the situation/society
also implies that the group/society may see the person as a foreigner?
meaning: from the person's perspective - new to this environment
from the society's perspective - new to having this person in their environment/society
feeling belonging in the world she used to be "new" in; becoming ordinary?
"happy in the
adoptive
country"
husband still has to translate for her; meaning, that her "language" hasn't been brought into the society yet - not being taught in schools so that the husband doesn't have to keep on translating for her
but then doesn't go back to her origin country
("reasons" are listed on pg. 3)
even when her relatives visit her adoptive country
as if the adoptive country took over her life
sort of like how digitalization takes over ppl's lives; making it difficult to go back (to the old)
real reason: she's afraid
the woman officer was smirking because letting the dancer into the home country would "help" her realize that the country has changed from what she had known
pg. 5: i cannot dance
after coming back from visiting her parents/her origin country
becoming unfamiliar with one's home country after spending time in an
adoptive
country
pg. 5: on the way to dying, the guards who the Lord "calls for" are the woman's friends, family, and lovers
"prison cell of my life" (pg. 6)
she is rejected, and goes back to the world of life; though she relieved because she will eventually die/go to the world of life "and get her papers stamped"
metaphor of immigration
crossing between worlds
after getting rejected, she rehearses her answer of "what is the purpose of your visit" to death
in simpler words: what is the purpose of you dying - and not living on?