Zusammenfassung der relevanten Themen für das Englisch Abitur 2024 in Niedersachen (Hamlet, Heads of the Colored People, Mambo Sauce, Boy Erased, Atonement) und eine Übersicht der verschiedenen Textarten in Englisch
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Characters
Name: Riley
Age: 20ish
Profession: engineering student
Hobbies: cosplay
Outward appearance: black, likes to dress up (blue contacts, bleached hair)
Environment: well-read
Behavior: tolerant, confident, expresses himself through art
Relationships: Paris‘ boyfriend
Values/feelings: important to have a black wife, proud of his heritage
Additional information: faces racism
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Name: Richard Simmons - Brother Man
Age: adult
Profession: sells comics illegally
Hobbies: sketch artist
Outward appearance: black, muscular, tall
Environment: former prisoner, poor, less stable
Behavior: smokes, non-violent, expresses himself through art
Relationships: –
Values/feelings: black people should support each other, proud of his heritage
Additional information: faces racism
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Name: Paris
Age: 19 years
Profession: tour-narrator on a cemetery
Hobbies: cosplay, sketch artist
Outward appearance: black,
Behavior: open-minded, supportive
Relationships: Riley‘s girlfriend
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Name: Kevan Peterson
Age: 25 years
Profession: UPS, sells art and T-shirts
Environment: had a toxic marriage
Relationships: knows Paris through her art, single parent of his daughter
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Heads of the colored people
Summary
Main plot
• Riley walks to a convention center
• Brother Man wants to hand him a pamphlet
• Riley ignores him -> Brother Man turns him around violently
• they start fighting
• people start surrounding and filming them
• the police comes and they both get shot
• later on in the Newspaper, Riley is pictured as innocent
• when talking about Brother Man, they chose his mug shot and emphasize a criminal charge from 5 years ago
-> forcing a perspective onto the scenario (Brother Man is the violent one, Riley just his victim)
Reasons for the fight:
• Brother Man didn't like to be ignored by Riley, especially because the latter is black as well
• he just wanted to be acknowledged and sell his self-drawn comics -> that's why he stops Riley
• Riley felt threatened
Side story of Kevan and Paris
• Kevan is consumed by thoughts of the events on TV (fight)
• he thinks about how he wants to collect and support black art
• Paris wants to meet Riley at the convention center
• she draws collections of heads in her scetchbook (especially Riley)
• arrives at the center and sees Riley's dead body
• After that she draws his face over and over again and later on Kevan wants this collection for an art project
• incident is covered falsely on TV
Meta
• narrator explains why the actual shooting was not portrayed
Topics
Discrimination / police violence
• It is suspected that the police started to shoot as fast and as violently (13 shots) because both are black
• meta-narrative style makes prejudice visible
Ethnic identity
• Brother Man expects Riley to pay attention to him because he is black as well and is irritated when Riley doesn't
• Brother Man believes that Riley might be ashamed of his ethnicity because he changed his haircolour and puts in blue
contacts, when in reality Riley just likes to dress up that way (challenges prejudice)
Cohesion
• Brother Man believes black people should stick together
Grief
• Paris expresses her feelings about Riley‘s death
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Mambo Sauce
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Characters
Name: Constance
Profession: artist, part time teacher (New York)
Hobbies: art
Outward appearance: black
Behavior: ambitious, empathetic, socially conscious, different at Winging It!, self aware
Relationships: conflicting relationship with Brian, close friends with the Winging It! staff
Values/feelings: proud of her identity, afraid of being judged
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Name: Brian
Profession: charter-school-lobbyist (DC)
Outward appearance: white
Behavior: open-minded, insensitive, impulsive
Relationships: difficult relationship to Constance (ignores her feelings)
Values/feelings: career-oriented
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Name: Gina (Anne)
Profession: owner of Winging It!
Outward appearance: black
Behavior: strong, independent, business-minded
Relationships: friends with her staff and Constance
visits friends
Constance # Brian
Winging It! Alissa Mark
owns
Mr. Bruce Gina
friends
friends
friends
Jay, Tracy, Earl
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