Choose a primary character? Type the name of the character and the play that they are in.
Lloyd. Nursing by Adam Rapp
What are five relevant Given Circumstances to that character? Use a sentence to explain each one so you have five sentences total.
1. Lloyd signed a waiver to be a test subject.
2. Lloyd doesn’t mind dying due to everything he’s been through.
3. If the glass that is in Lloyd’s cage is one-sided so he can act naturally.
4. If Lloyd never put his trust in Joan. he could have potentially survived everything.
5. If Erin did more to get Lloyd back home, he would have lived a normal life.
What do they want and Why do they want this? Use three sentences to answer this.
1. Lloyd wants to die because he doesn’t care enough to live. We have seen him hang himself as a test to his first nurse, Andy, even though he doesn’t have much motivation as the person the guard told him about. We see him sign a waiver to participate in a study where people inject him with the most dangerous diseases.
What are five examples of tactics/verbs that they use throughout the play? Five Verbs
1. Lloyd does a lot of arguing in the play, he never agrees with anyone and always reads between the lines.
2. The guard and Lloyd sympathize with each other when talking about their children.
3. When Erin and Loyd have a conversation about the family they have, Lloyd wants to isolate himself from everyone he loves.
4. Lloyd is also mourning over how he is as a person and what he’s become.
5. Lloyd tries to push away the journalist.
Cite an example/moment in the play where they use that tactic/verb? One sentence.
1. When Andy and Lloyd were talking about Green Eggs and Ham, Lloyd’s example of arguing and reading between the lines is when he explained his own message of the book when he said “It’s basically about how chaos teaches us how to lie to our m‐m‐m‐ mother’s.”
What page number is the monologue you are looking at from? Single word
1. Twenty-seven (27)
Who are they speaking to and what is their relationship to that person/people? Single sentence.
1. Lloyd is speaking to his brother Joe.
What do they want from the person/people they are talking to? Single sentence
1. Lloyd wanted to give Joe and dive into his mindset and what made him leave to be deployed.
Why do they speak uninterrupted? Think about this a little. Normally, we don’t get to just talk a long time without another person answering us. Political Speeches are an example where the speaker is uninterrupted. A Thank You speech after getting a reward. Why does this character get to speak uninterrupted? What is your opinion? Five Sentences
1. The reason Lloyd keeps breaking when he speaks and continuously talks is that he wants Joe to absorb everything Lloyd is saying so it sinks in. Most of the story was not about Joe with his wife leading Lloyd to go to the army. He wanted to show to see how little he cared about things and the smallest things can make him do what he wants to do. He does show emotion throughout the play but for the majority of when he was talking to Joe, he wants him to leave.
What would you identify as the theme of the play? What is the play About? Five Sentences
1. The theme of the play is to tell the audience that being alone is the worst thing someone can do to themselves. When I see how Lloyd signed himself up for what he did was the first act, the second when Joe came, and third with Erin. Lloyd has always spoken like the victim in all this due to his horrible experiences in the past. When Erin and his brother come to try and help him, Lloyd pushes them away because he doesn’t want to feel like he’s pulling them down. Lloyd doesn’t mind dying and he’s made peace with it. After he does pass, it leaves the audience thinking about what he could have done if he opened up and let his loved ones in.
What in the play resonated with you right now? What felt relevant to you? What did you identify with? Five sentences.
1. How in today’s age with teens and young adults keeping things to themselves and how it slowly breaks someone is the same way how Lloyd is slowly breaking but not by his mind, but by the diseases. In some way, the diseases that were being injected into him could be the “diseases” young minds inject into their brain causing them to change for the worse also.
This is just excellent Koray! I think you are spot on about the themes of the play and the power of loneliness. I really enjoyed how you explored how Lloyd's life could have been different and how the choices he and the people around him made led him to his current situation.
You also did an excellent job identifying tactics and verbs. I think your understanding of Lloyd and what he is doing to the people around his is really insightful. If you were portraying this character as an actor, you have arend yourself well with tools to approach the scene work.