Genre
A play
Language
English
Setting and Context
Set in 1991 in Brooklyn
Narrator and Point of View
An anonymous third-person narration
Tone and Mood
Apprehensive, chilling, vehement, heart-breaking, disturbing
Protagonist and Antagonist
The central character is Anonymous Young Man 1
Major Conflict
The conflict emerges when a motorcade group of the Jewish driving in Crown Heights kills an African American boy. Black people protest, and they kill an innocent Jewish man to get revenge. The riot between the two groups erupts, and the results are chaotic.
Climax
The climax comes when the riots become blow out of proportion. The reader realizes that the groups involved in the rioting express their frustrations because they are both racially discriminated in America.
Foreshadowing
Racial discrimination prefigures the hatred between the Blacks and the Jews.
Understatement
Violence is underestimated in the play. For instance, during the protest, lives are lost, and property is destroyed.
Allusions
The play alludes to racial discrimination and the frustrations of the people who are genealogically segregated.
Imagery
The images of race, ethnicity and injustice are all over the play to depict sight to the audience.
Paradox
The main paradox is that after a Jews' motorcade kills the African American boy, the Black people turn up to revenge, and they end up killing an innocent Jew.
Parallelism
There is parallelism between the riot’s intentions and the outcome.
Personification
The violence is personified as futile.
Use of Dramatic Devices
N/A
