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    In this monologue from the musical "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown," Charlie Brown shares his lonely thoughts during his school lunch period. He eats a peanut butter sandwich alone, thinking people who eat them must be lonely. He sees a cute red-haired girl eating nearby and considers asking to join her but believes she would laugh at him. He works up the courage to stand but quickly sits back down, calling himself a coward. When he imagines she is looking at him, he puts his lunch bag over his head in embarrassment. He reflects on his loneliness and isolation during lunch each day.

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    In this monologue from the musical "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown," Charlie Brown shares his lonely thoughts during his school lunch period. He eats a peanut butter sandwich alone, thinking people who eat them must be lonely. He sees a cute red-haired girl eating nearby and considers asking to join her but believes she would laugh at him. He works up the courage to stand but quickly sits back down, calling himself a coward. When he imagines she is looking at him, he puts his lunch bag over his head in embarrassment. He reflects on his loneliness and isolation during lunch each day.

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    In this monologue from the musical "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown," Charlie Brown shares his lonely thoughts during his school lunch period. He eats a peanut butter sandwich alone, thinking people who eat them must be lonely. He sees a cute red-haired girl eating nearby and considers asking to join her but believes she would laugh at him. He works up the courage to stand but quickly sits back down, calling himself a coward. When he imagines she is looking at him, he puts his lunch bag over his head in embarrassment. He reflects on his loneliness and isolation during lunch each day.

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    In this monologue from the musical "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown," Charlie Brown shares his lonely thoughts during his school lunch period. He eats a peanut butter sandwich alone, thinking people who eat them must be lonely. He sees a cute red-haired girl eating nearby and considers asking to join her but believes she would laugh at him. He works up the courage to stand but quickly sits back down, calling himself a coward. When he imagines she is looking at him, he puts his lunch bag over his head in embarrassment. He reflects on his loneliness and isolation during lunch each day.

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    The passages provide insight into Troy's difficult childhood and relationship with his abusive father. They also show Charlie Brown's loneliness and insecurity during lunchtime.

    Troy describes his father as 'evil' and that he 'wasn't good for nobody'. His mother left when he was young and all of his father's other partners also left him. Troy was afraid of his father and their relationship became even more strained after an incident with a girl when Troy was 14.

    Biff is confronting his father, Willy, about the truth of his own life and career. He says Willy filled him with false ambitions and ideas of success. Biff realizes he doesn't want the kind of life Willy wanted for him and that neither of them are actually leaders.

    From the play "Fences"

    written by August Wilson


    (From August Wilson's play Fences. In 1957, Troy is a hard-working, strong black man with a
    wife, Rose, with whom he had a son, Cory and another son by a previous marriage, Lyons. His
    brother, Gabriel is slightly crazy and he just got a job driving the truck for the sanitation
    department. Trouble is, he has no driver's license...so he's got a few things on his mind. The
    conversation has turned to fathers and Troy gives us some valuable insight into why he is the
    way he is.)
    Troy: My daddy ain't had them walking blues! What you talking about? He stayed right there
    with his family. But he was just as evil as he could be. My mama couldn't stand him. Couldn't
    stand that evilness. She run off when I was about eight. She sneaked off one night after he had
    gone to sleep. Told me she was coming back for me. I ain't never seen her no more. All his
    women run off and left him. He wasn't good for nobody. When my turn come to head out, I was
    fourteen and got to sniffing around Joe Canewell's daughter. Had us an old mule we called
    Greyboy. My daddy sent me out to do some plowing and I tied up Greyboy and went to fooling
    around with Joe Canewell's daughter. We done found us a nice little spot, got real cozy with each
    other. She about thirteen and we done figured we was grown anyway . . . so we down there
    enjoying ourselves . . . ain't thinking about nothing. We didn't know Greyboy had got loose and
    wandered back to the house and my daddy was looking for me. We down there by the creek
    enjoying ourselves when my daddy come up on us. Surprised us. He had them leather straps off
    the mule and commenced to whupping me like there was no tomorrow. I jumped up, mad and
    embarrassed. I was scared of my daddy. When he commenced to whupping on me . . . quite
    naturally I run to get out of the way. (pause) Now I thought he was mad cause I ain't done my
    work. But I see where he was chasing me off so he could have the gal for himself. When I see
    what the matter of it was, I lost all fear of my daddy. Right there is where I become a man . . . at
    fourteen years of age. (pause) Now it was my turn to run him off. I picked up them same reins
    that he had used on me. I picked up them reins and commenced to whupping on him. The gal
    jumped up and run off . . . and when my daddy turned to face me, I could see why the devil had
    never come to get him . . . cause he was the devil himself. I don't know what happened. When I
    woke up, I was laying right there by the creek, and Blue . . . this old dog we had . . . was licking
    my face. I thought I was blind. I couldn't see nothing. Both my eyes were swollen shut. I layed
    there and cried. I didn't know what I was gonna do. The only thing I knew was the time had
    come for me to leave my daddy's house. And right there the world suddenly got big. And it was a
    long time before I could cut it down to where I could handle it. Part of that cutting down was
    when I got to the place where I could feel him kicking in my blood and knew that the only thing
    that separated us was the matter of a few years.

    Death of a Salesman
    Arthur Miller
    (Biff confronts his father about the truth of his life, and the false images that Willy had for his
    son)

    Biff: You know why I had no address for three months? I stole a suit in Kansas City and I
    was jailed. I stole myself out of every good job since high school. And I never got
    anywhere because you blew me so full of hot air I could never stand taking orders from
    anybody! That's whose fault it is! It's god**** time you heard that! I had to be boss big
    shot in two weeks, and I'm through with it! Willy! I ran down eleven flights with a pen in
    my hand today. And suddenly I stopped, you hear me? And in the middle of that office
    building, do you hear this? I stopped in the middle of that building and I saw - the sky. I
    saw the things that I love in the world. The work and the food and the time to sit and
    smoke. And I looked at the pen and said to myself, what the **** am I grabbing this for?
    Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am I doing in an office,
    making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for
    me the minute I say I know who I am! Why can't I say that, Willy? Pop! I'm a dime a
    dozen, and so are you! I am not a leader of men, Willy, and neither are you. You were
    never anything but a hard-working drummer who landed in the ash-can like all the rest of
    them! I'm one dollar an hour, Willy! I tried seven states and couldn't raise it! A buck an
    hour! Do you gather my meaning? I'm not bringing home any prizes any more, and you're
    going to stop waiting for me to bring them home! Pop, I'm nothing! I'm nothing, Pop.
    Can't you understand that? There's no spite in it any more. I'm just what I am, that's all.
    Will you let me go, for Christ's sake? Will you take that phoney dream and burn it before
    something happens?

    Hamlet - Prince Hamlet gives advice to his actors before their performance. He
    discusses the art of acting.
    Hamlet: Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the
    tongue. But if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town crier spoke
    my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, by use all gently, for in
    the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire
    and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the soul to hear a
    robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of
    the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb
    shows and noise. I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant. It outherods Herod. Pray you avoid it. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be
    your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special
    observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. For anything so overdone is from
    the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as
    'twere, the mirror up to nature, to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and
    the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone, or come
    tardy off, though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve, the
    censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. O,
    there be players that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly (not to
    speak profanely), that neither having th' accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian,
    pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of Nature's
    journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so
    abominably. Reform it altogether! And let those that play your clowns speak no more
    than is set down for them, for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some
    quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the mean time some necessary
    question of the play be then to be considered. That's villainous and shows a most pitiful
    ambition in the fool that uses it. Go make you ready.

    Youre a Good Man, Charlie Brown! Musical - Clark Gesner


    (Charlie Brown shares his thinking with the audience as he eats his lunch during a
    typical school day for him.)
    Charlie Brown: I think lunchtime is about the worst time of day for me. Always having
    to sit here alone. Of course, sometimes, mornings aren't so pleasant either. Waking up and
    wondering if anyone would really miss me if I never got out of bed. Then there's the
    night, too. Lying there and thinking about all the stupid things I've done during the day.
    And all those hours in between when I do all those stupid things. Well, lunchtime is
    among the worst times of the day for me. Well, I guess I'd better see what I've got. Peanut
    butter. Some psychiatrists say that people who eat peanut butter sandwiches are lonely...I
    guess they're right. And when you're really lonely, the peanut butter sticks to the roof of
    your mouth. There's that cute little red-headed girl eating her lunch over there. I wonder
    what she would do if I went over and asked her if I could sit and have lunch with
    her?...She'd probably laugh right in my face...it's **** a face when it gets laughed in.
    There's an empty place next to her on the bench. There's no reason why I couldn't just go
    over and sit there. I could do that right now. All I have to do is stand up...I'm standing
    up!...I'm sitting down. I'm a coward. I'm so much of a coward, she wouldn't even think of
    looking at me. She hardly ever does look at me. In fact, I can't remember her ever looking
    at me. Why shouldn't she look at me? Is there any reason in the world why she shouldn't
    look at me? Is she so great, and I'm so small, that she can't spare one little
    moment?...SHE'S LOOKING AT ME!! SHE'S LOOKING AT ME!! (he puts his lunchbag
    over his head.) ...Lunchtime is among the worst times of the day for me. If that little redheaded girl is looking at me with this stupid bag over my head she must think I'm the
    biggest fool alive. But, if she isn't looking at me, then maybe I could take it off quickly
    and she'd never notice it. On the other hand...I can't tell if she's looking, until I take it off!
    Then again, if I never take it off I'll never have to know if she was looking or not. On the
    other hand...it's very hard to breathe in here. (he removes sack) Whew! She's not looking
    at me! I wonder why she never looks at me? Oh well, another lunch hour over with...only
    2,863 to go.

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