Estragon Questions (10/23/14)

BOLD= Chlyde's updates to group notes. 

1. what is your character like?

1. hard headed
2. distrustworthy with everyone except Didi
3. Childish
4. Unintelligent

  b.how does he not act?

1. mature
2. smart
3. adult

2. objects your character interacts with?

• boot
• tries to remove it, does so in the end of act 1. (pg. 7, 34 <- old edition of book)
• chicken bone
• sees Lucky with it, and wants to eat it. (pg. 18 <- old edition of book)
• carrot
• would like to eat it, eventually gets one. (pg. 14 <- old edition of book)
• turnip
• was about to be eaten, until a carrot was found. (pg. 14 <- old edition of book)
• willow tree
• considers hanging himself in act 2
• it is the meet up spot
• belt
• how he would hang himself
• holds his pants up in act 2
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• bag
• he wonders why Lucky continues to hold it. (pg. 27 <- old edition of book)

3. describe how your character interacts with other characters. use examples.

• repetitive in words (pg. 26,52-53)
• "like leave...like leaves.."
• goes off topic, on a tangent. (pg. 23 <- old edition of book)
• "the circus, the music-hall, the circus"

4. How does your character change? how do they act in scene 1? act in scene 2?

• physically
• moves spots
• takes off trousers
• mentally
• doesn't change (stays childish in both acts)
• emotionally
• he retains a somber tone for the majority of both acts, but there are a few instances where he is happy. 

5. How does your character make sense of his world? what does he think? and how does he think?

Estragon sees the world like a playground, where he can do what he wants, because this area is for him to mess around in. One example of this idea is represented through the situation that Estragon describes about "throwing himself into the Rhone" (pg. 35 <- old version page number)

He thinks more about himself, or the situations that seem to grab his attention more, because they do not require too much thinking compared to worrying about others or considering if an action is "right" or "wrong".

He thinks like a child because he values human interaction and materialistic ideas more than anything. His mannerisms and lack of adult behavior apparently give this idea that he might look like an adult, but he does not seem like an adult.