Cardboard Mansions: While preparing, presenting and after presenting my group sketch

  Our English teacher told us to prepare a group sketch for a short story. She split us into groups of 4. Since we still don't know each other that well, it is hard for us to actually plan and act out this play but at least I am closer to one person in the group. Our story for the play is Cardboard Mansions, I read the story after a few days. I thought I was late and I think my group has already started to plan how to act out the story but I was wrong, none of my teammates has started to plan anything but worse, they hadn't even read the story. Some don't even know which story we are acting out. So, I told them to read and try to think of a way to act it out because it is hard to act out a story with a lot of flashbacks and backstories without a narrator.

  It was the day for the sketch. Our group had nothing. One of the members still hadn't read the story. Even though I have the story in my mine but it was still very difficult to present it out through a play. We tried to plan for a bit before the English period but none of us had any ideas. When it was English, Teacher gave the class ten minutes to read our story while we try to plan. We don't have much choice so we just act out the story. It was chaotic since one person only know a bit of the story and we are still kind of confused about how do we act out the story so we just act it out without much care.  I think the act was bad but at least we acted out the story. I think we can do better if we all co-operate and communicate more.

  The short story, Cardboard Mansions, is about an old lady and her grandson living a poor life. This story takes place in Africa. The old lady's name is Dadi-Ma and her five-year-old grandson's name is Chotoo. This story is a very sad story because Dadi-Ma lost all hope when she tried to find her friend so she can live with her like the old days after getting kicked out of the shanties but when she got to the place her friend lived in, she can't find her friend because everything has changed and her friend has moved to somewhere unknown. Dadi-Ma lost all hope because she is worried about the future, the future of her grandson.

  This story has taught me that family love is a powerful thing. Dadi-Ma's love for her grandson is so strong that she is afraid for her grandson's future and she is worried for him but she tried very hard to hide her fear away from Chotoo to make him feel safe.