Uta Hagens 9 Questions

1. Who am I? Who is your character?

Identify all the details: name/age, physical traits, relatives, education, personal opinions, likes, dislikes, hobbies, fears, ethics, and beliefs.

• My name is Josephine
• My mother is in prison
• My grandmothers has died
• I dont have nay family living with me
• I dont have much education
• I am very poor
• I am fairly young
• I don’t believe in the Modonna, or my mother flying
• I go down to the river with my mother often
• My mother was arrested for Vodoo
• I visit her often in prison
• I dont speak much when I visit her

2. What time is it?
The year, the season, the day, the minute. What is the significance of time?

• It is a few years past 1937, most likely around 1947 or so
• It is day time, when Josephine walks around and the majority of the scene takes place
• As time passes mother gets worse and JOsphine gets more attached to the Modonna and her mother
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3. Where am I?
Identify the country, the city/town, the neighborhood, the building, the room, the specific area of the room.

• I am in Haiti
• I am ina small village in HAiti that is unnamed
• I am in a small living space, about one room by myself
• I have come blankets for a bed and a chair for the Modonna and myself 
• I have one “table to sit at 
• I own one outfit
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4. What surrounds me? What is happening in the environment around you?
Weather, landscape, people, animate/inanimate objects.

• At home it is very barren and plain.
• TEh jail is grey and muddy
• The river is very beautiful and shrimp.
• IT is usually warm and sunny,
• Not much other water except the river that is by the boarder
• not many people are around
• Not really any animals or wildlife around
• MAybe some plant matter but that’s about it

5. What are the given circumstances?
Identify events in the past, present, future. What has happened, what is happening, what is going to happen?

• MY mother was arrested when I was younger
• I live along, with no family
• I take care of the Modonna, and I am pour
• I dont really believe in Vodoo
• I dont really understand my mother but I want to be closer to her
• I am going to visit my mother often
• I go down to the river every year when my mother was around
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6. What are my relationships?
This is more than your relationship to other people. Think about your relationship to objects, characters, and events.

• I have a bad relationship with my mother that I want to fix
• Other than that I am fairly alone 

7. What do I want? What do you want immediately? What does the character want overall?

• I want to help my mother 
• I want to be with my mother
• I want to have a better relationship with my mother
• And I want to understand her and Vodoo 

8. What is in my way? What are the obstacles to getting what you want?

• My mother is in prison for life
• I live so far away from her
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9. What do I do to get what I want? What actions do you take (both physically and verbally)? What tactics

• I walk long ways to go see her
• I visit the river
• I bring her the Modonna
• I try to have more conversations with my mother
• I try to understand Vodoo
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