Commentary: Different?

The textbook is a monologue and inspired by two other kinds of texts. Alan Bennetts Talking Heads and (to a lesser extent) a text I discovered by Carol Ann Duffy called Comprehensive. It is present in the AQA English Language and Literature Anthology for 2003, 2004, 2005.The purpose of the text is as a promoter of entertaining an audience of a younger age (possibly in between the ages of 12-18) that are aware of the mathematical groups of people concerned (who are usually teenagers themselves) and also of their colloquialisms. This targets broadly speaking those who are affected or annoyed by these types of people within their daily lives. (People in the Birmingham area of this age are more than likely to go steady the dialect). A person that fits into this category should hopefully find that the text is true to real life, and also quite amusing.The piece begins as one of Alan Bennetts Talking Heads would. As his works were written with the assumption that they would be visual for a watching audience as well as just for a listening audience, he wrote, what could be denotered to as stage directions in italics at the top of each monologue. I lay down done this also as I think it sets the tantrum well and perhaps gives away more information about each character. The genre of the piece (monologue) does non really confine me in terms of the yield matter or layout but I bump that its genre is evident from merely viewing the layout and maybe reading the first paragraph.I did not feel it suitable for either person to greet the audience, as they would be talking to a camera and not a person. This also would not aid me in any way when putting across my attitudes. Instead I continued straight into two characters speeches as a means of qualification the passage quarter more smoothly.There is not just a single attitude that I am trying to get across in writing this text but they are all linked in that my complaints all refer to the groups known to me and man y others as greebos and Kevs. I have attempted to explain these two groups of peoples attitudes (as I see it as an outsider looking in) towards their own lives and, more importantly, to each other. I have also made clear using up of collect with each person to show the listener how confusing some of the slang that teenagers use today is and how the language varies between the different groups (i.e. one would rarely name a greebo say the word wicked unless it were as a means of imitating a kev). I have tried to show how humorous some of the lyric and phrases used sound, and in some cases, how they make no sense whatsoever, for example, the names of these groups alone are somewhat confusing and do not give us any clue as to what it means to be a member of these groups. Even though I am familiar with these groups, I do not know where their group names or the language they use is derived from.They have both someways managed to inherit a kind of stereotype description, which everyone can refer to if either the word greebo or Kev is used. Part of the message that I am trying to put across is trying to, explain that most Kevs and greebos do not fit their stereotype description at all. For example, according to Tom, squatting and his kind do not like the game of football, what kind of a person doesnt like football?, when clearly Jack states that he has got a season ticket for City and he enjoys going to the games.Filthy scum get outta BrumBopping around in their approximative PsTom and Jack speak in an informal manner (shown above), as if they are talking to a friend instead of in a more impersonal way. They both presume that the listener understands the slang that they use. I felt that if they didnt do this, then my attitude towards the language that they use would seem less obvious. disdain their supposed initial feelings of being comfortable talking at a camera, towards the end of both monologues the boys both seem to feel threatened after arriving at the su bject of befriending a member of the opposite group. At this point there are a lot of stops and stutterings marked by , and finally apparently as a means of escape both come to an abrupt end and what looks like a farewell without an explanation of where they have to rush despatch to and why they have to go wherever they are going so quicklyIn reality, the stereotype greebo is exactly as the kev describes and the stereotype kev is exactly how Jack describes, but their minds do not seem to be open enough or able to grasp the concept that not all of the opposing group are like this. If what Tom Foster believes were true then there would not be many greebos alive to get exasperated about because presumptively they will have all slit their wrists. Only in extreme cases only are their faces covered in piercings and not all of them despise football (as I have shown using Jack). The greebo that I have used in my monologue does not give us any evidence that he worships daimon either de spite what the kev believes and the kev is even in a relationship with a greebo despite this being against his ethics.When talking about Eminem, (a music artist popular with both groups) Jack refers to him as one of us. When he says this the listener would realise what he means by us even though he gives us no clue as to what it means. This shows that he knows that he is part of a group (the greebos) and by saying that he is one of them is a way of making his music only acceptable for them to listen to rather than Kevs, and as he continues he explains that Kevs listen to his music for the wrong reasons almost saying that they should not be permitted to listen to it.cos theyll get thinking that he is one of them These greebos sicken me. These quotes show that they talk down on each other as if they were somehow of a lower class and referring to each other as them gives a feeling of hostility even though they are so similar in many ways. The only real difference is in the clothes that they wear and the music that they listen to.Although it may seem that I have exaggerated the tot of times that both Tom and Jack use slang I assure you this is no exaggerationHes the only galosh one. The word safe is just one of the slang words used by Jack in his monologue. If he were using Standard English then he would have said He is the only one that is trustworthy and that I like.I emphasise the separate groups pronunciation of words as a means of making the monologues appear more like spontaneous speech as (if the piece were to be acted out as it should be) this would be the way I would want the actors to speak. I also tried to do this by changing the subject abruptly in various places throughout the monologues.i.e. . Its never about the music with them, just baselines and how tweaked the sand trap drum is, whatever that means.So anyway, we decided that they were takin over too much in Birmingham soThey accuse and criticise each other for doing the corresponding things w hile oblivious to the fact that meanwhile members of the opposite group are accusing them of doing the same thing. For example, Jack says Its never about the music with them while before on in Toms monologue he says, We go for the music, not to get wasted This insinuates of course that it is never about the music for greebos either. If we took both peoples word for it then neither of them listens to music because they want to listen to music. I dont though and find these accusations preposterous.I believe the way in which each person ends the conversation. The language that they both use is comedic and further helps me to convey how both groups rather weird variation of the English language baffles me. Despite this, ending their monologues in the ways that they do sums up both characters.