Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Joseph Asagai-Don Cheadle


Don Cheadle worked on a movie called Hotel Rwanda that was about genocide and "In 2010, Cheadle was named U.N. Environment Program Goodwill Ambassador" (Wikipedia). He co-authored a book about ending genocide and genocide is one of the problems that is prevalent in some parts of Africa. Joseph wants to go back to his country and improve the conditions concerning health, education, and etc. Don's experience working in the movie Hotel Rwanda, and his personal beliefs go hand in hand in the role for Joseph Asagai.

Pg.1051 Physical description- “Dramatic-looking young man”
Personality- He’s respectful, knowledgeable, kind-hearted, and caring.
Pg. 1052 (explaining to Beneatha his nickname for her and its meaning) “(Thinking.)  It means… it means One for Whom Bread--- Food Is Not Enough.
Pg. 1071(to Beneatha) "What you just said--about the circle. It isn't a circle-- it is simply a long line-- as in geometry, you know, one that reaches into infinity. and because we cannot see the end-- we also cannot see how it changes. and it is very odd but those who see the changes--who dream, who will not give up-- are called idealists . . . and those who see only the circle-- we call them the "realists"! . . . I LIVE THE ANSWER! (Pause.) In my village at home it is the exceptional man who can even read a newspaper . . . or who ever sees a book at all. I will go home and much of what I will have to say will seem strange to the people of my village. But I will teach and work and things will happen, slowly and swiftly. At times it will seem that nothing changes at all . . . and then again the sudden dramatic events which make history leap into the future. And then quiet again. Retrogression even. Guns, murder, revolution. And I even will have moments when I wonder if the quiet was not better than all that death and hatred. But I will look about my village at the illiteracy and disease and ignorance and I will not wonder long. and perhaps . . . perhaps I will be a great man . . . I mean perhaps I will hold on to the substance of truth and find my way always with the right course . . . and perhaps for it I will be butchered in my bed some night by the servants of empire. . . 


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