BA#3 Secrets in Harrower's Black Bird

I found this play to be similiar to The Road in the way that the information you need to know about the characters was slowly given to the reader. The Main characters are cloudy in the beginning just as in The Road where the man and son are just characters with only a purpose with no meaning. Ray and Una are just characters, you as a reader don't have a clue as to where they came from their relationships with others or eachother and their purpose too is unclear. When we read a story we typically look for the , who, what, when , where, and whys to keep us interested. As human beings we all want to figure things out, its a basic need to know things, and when you are given a story you want answers to these predisposed questions. We crave these answers even more so in a play because you are reading or watching something which we expect to have that peak of interest in it somewhere and then a dramatic monumental (devastating or heightening) conclusion, therefor in the duration of the play we look for clues to give us some kind of notion of what will happen next and then we put the peices together so we can try to figure out the ending then compare what we thought to what actually happened. In this play you are given the clues so slowly and so vaguely that when it comes time for the end you are left wondering and frustrated. The whole play is based on secrets really, and when the end finally comes you are still left with questions, that cannot be answered.