Our Discrimination Related Assignment

The skit…

          So, for our Advanced English class we had to do this small dramatizations in which we had to include and develop a type of discrimination in the theme of the play. My group and I decided to go with the most cliché of them: racial discrimination, but in a somewhat different way. Our story was set in the Dallas- Fort Worth airport at a TSA checkpoint. The protagonist was Esteban Julio Ricardo Montoya de la Rosa Ramírez and he was a Mexican guy going on a business travel. There at the TSA he confronts a racist officer and is later saved by a random stranger passing by. We got the idea for Esteban’s character from The Suite Life of Zack & Cody in which there is a Peruvian guy with the same name who works at the hotel where Zack and Cody live.

          Also, we had to include a related poem inside the lines of the play. We used the poem “I rise” by Maya Angelou. It was a great poem but in the beginning it gave us a hard time figuring out how to include it in a smooth way so it would fit perfectly with the play. At the end, and after a lot of work we were able to do this and it came out all right.

          In the beginning, this assignment was a pain and I cannot say that the experience was completely good, since we did not have that much time or motivation to do the play. In my opinion, if I were going to say something good about the assignment is that it helped me see better the situations of discrimination, since I was seeing them live in front of me, even more than if I only read about them in class. Anyways, at the end the work was not that bad, since it was a rewarding experience to see that the final product turned out all right.