JHENNY VERONICA / 15190027

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When I first read it, I liked the storyline of the drama The Fire by D.M. Larson.
The story is light but difficult to guess and delivered by the narrator with a simple
style. But I think, this story is a bit long-winded because of the many “less
important” debates between the characters. Larson added narration as a setting of
events such as movements between characters, so that I could clearly imagine what
was happening and what the characters were doing.

The story begins with a narration that describes the atmosphere of the night when
people are asleep and someone who enters the place “(On stage are several cots
with people sleeping on them. Tande enters cautiously among the sleeping people.
He reaches about center and is distracted by a sudden loud snore behind him. This
causes him to run into a cot)”. Then there was a small commotion between
characters because they felt disturbed by the entry of Tande (the lost person with
only an address and no memory of anything else) to the place. “Who that? What’s
with knockin’ my bed?” Sleeper said. “Quiet!” Shouter answered by shouting.
Instantly I felt that the characters between the players would be very opposite.

The debate continues and small battles occur between male characters. But I
realized after a few pages in length not all of characters are bad, there is 1 character
that is opposite to other characters. “(Terry goes to Tande) Hi, there.” Terry
greeted Tande kindly. Ya, her name is Terry, the only character who helps Tande,
the main character.

They were very surprised when Tande showed something, “I was told to come here. At least,
I think so. (Takes out paper) Here’s the address.” Tande said. It’s normal if they really know
what that place really is. “That’s a bad place. Only Sleeper goes there.” Downer said. I think
only Sleeper’s character knows what that bad place is. At this point, the narrator does not tell
us exactly about the place, he only shows a few clues that the place is indeed dangerous.

“I don’t understand any of this. What is this stupid address? I don’t want to go, but what else
can I do? There’s nothing behind me. There’s nothing here. The only thing I have is this
address.”. I felt how the character of Tande was confused between having to leave or not
because he already knew that the place was dangerous. This is normal when faced with
difficult choices. He had to go there but did not want to harm himself. “Sleeper would go
anyway. It’s his job. You may as well go with him.” Terry convinced Tande to go with
Sleeper anyway, that he had no choice. He has to go anyway.

The drama was closed by Tande follows Sleeper to go to the bad place. Terry watches sadly
as if he knew that Tande would not return. I felt sorry for the character Tande. he didn’t know
anything but faced with a difficult choice, still, he had no choice.