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Surname 1 Student’s Name Instructor Course Date “The Piano Lesson” Most of the African American writings majorly fall under the category of Gothic literature. For instance, Wilson a literary companion, in august described the recurrent legacy of slavery in the life of African Americans using the genre of gothic in his play “The Piano Lesson.” The characters in this play are categorically strange through their resolution and actions as they vividly show the kind of slavery they are experiencing. The piano is a symbol of inherited slavery by Berniece, Boy Willie, Wining boy and Avery. The future and success of each member of this family is tied to piano. This makes them to be enslaved by the past history of the piano "[Boy Charles] Say [the piano] was the story of our whole family and as long as Sutter had it…he had us. Say we was still in slavery" (Act I, Scene 2). Berniece is concerned and obsessed by the piano’s mysterious history together with her husband’s death. Boy Willie has been working as a sharecropper but now there is hope of him acquiring a piece of land, but the history of the piano has blocked him. Also, Avery wants to be a perfect man of God, but the ...
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