Thursday, January 9 Brighton Beach Memoirs literary elements/ reading the play


Learning Targets:
11-12R3: I can analyze the impact of author’s choices.
11-12R5: I can analyze how varied aspects of structure create meaning and affect the reader. In informational texts, analyze the impact and evaluate the effect structure has on exposition or argument in terms of clarity, persuasive/rhetorical technique, and audience appeal.
11-12W2b: I can develop a topic thoroughly by selecting the most significant and relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, direct quotations and paraphrased information or other examples, appropriate to the audience’s knowledge of the topic

In class: beginning to read the play
Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon

genre: play
first performed: 1982
setting: Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, NY; 1937 at the height of the Great Depression. The action takes place within the Jerome home.
a bit of history: 
The years just before and following the Great Depression brought with them a neighborhood consisting mostly of first- and second-generation Jewish-Americans and, later, Holocaust concentration camp survivors. Of the estimated 55,000 Holocaust survivors living in New York City as of 2011, most live in Brighton Beach. Since the 1970's, Brighton Beach has has a large Russian population. Today it is nicknamed "Little Odessa".

Characters


  • Eugene Morris Jerome, almost 15
  • Blanche Morton, 38: Eugene's widowed aunt
  • Kate Jerome, about 40: Eugene's mother, a strong Jewish matriarch
  • Laurie Morton, 13: Eugene's younger cousin, has heart problems
  • Nora Morton, 16½: Eugene's beautiful older cousin
  • Stanley Jerome, 18½: Eugene's older brother
  • Jacob "Jack" Jerome, about 40: Eugene's father



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