Vivian: No- cancer, yes.

Jason: When?

Vivian: Now. (Wit 24)

Vivian: This is much easier.  I just hold still and look cancerous.  It requires less acting every time. (Wit 37)

Although this play is emotional and dramtic, there is still an element of humor.  I chose a couple of quotes that literally made me laugh out loud.  When I looked over the desciption of the play, I felt like I was going to start reading something that would depress me.  Yes, it is depressing at the end, especially when she is suffering from a large amount of pain.  It reminds me of how some peoplebelieve that it is not the end of a journey that matters, it's getting there that's worth while.  The end is tragic, but the journey itself was amusing with irony, humor, and real life lessons. 

Just a side note of something that bothered me:

(Susie returns with an orange two-stick Popsicle.  Vivian unwraps it and breaks it in half.)

It is really hard to break a Popsicle after unwrapping it because my hands get sticky or it doesn't break right.  It's easier to break the Popsicles while they are still wrapped.  That way, when they are unwrapped, they are broken well and there is no mess.

• You start with one idea, you test it, and you hit on something better.
• You might end up somewhere unexpected. If so, that's good -- it means you learned something.

    "PRAY take care around Sister Rhonda Rice ? she is the first nun in Britain to win a black belt at KARATE.  Nunja warrior Rhonda, 44, only took up the tough martial art 3½ years ago.  Now fellow nuns are used to seeing her practise her fighting moves in her long habit at All Hallows Convent, Ditchingham, near Bungay, Suffolk.  But Rhonda was embarrassed to admit she was a nun when she first joined the Ditchingham Satori Shotokan Karate Club.  She said: “I kept it quiet. I turned up in the habit and quickly changed. I wasn’t sure if the class would like it if they knew I was a nun."

I chose this term because it made me laugh.  First of all, it gave me the image of a ninja-nun.  Second of all, ninja and nun are combined to one word, "nunja".  It is such a random term that I had to pick it.

The kangaroo is jumping ‘round the pen

In search of blissful leisure.  Should she play

Her fav’rite game?  Use dirt to make mud pies?

The kangaroo does wonder what to do.

With gliding motions, creatures pass her by.

With one leg up, the other remains on

The dirt.  To not hop boggles her mind, and

What odd fur they have, rough and striped and bright.

The young ones pointed, laughing at her moves-

She somersaulted, ‘round and ‘round she went.

Surrounding audience spun by her fast

The kangaroo welcomed laughter.

The group of creatures grew and watched the show,

A spectacle, a prodigy indeed.

Blank verse, yay!