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How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel

How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel. Winner of the Putlizer Prize for Drama, 1999. How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel. Talking Points The structure of the play: unstuck in time, flashbacks The Greek Chorus—see p. 2264: Vogel on plays as democracy The plot--reconstructed

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How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel

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  1. How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel Winner of the Putlizer Prize for Drama, 1999

  2. How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel • Talking Points • The structure of the play: unstuck in time, flashbacks • The Greek Chorus—see p. 2264: Vogel on plays as democracy • The plot--reconstructed • The characters: • Li’l Bit • Peck • Grandmother • Mother • Big Papa • Allusions • Music • Cars: Buick Riviera, Cadillac Eldorado, Chevy Bel Air, Cars and Sex: e. e. cummings, “she being brand” • Literature and Film: Alice Liddell, Lolita, Emma/Clueless, Dangerous Liaisons • People: Hugh Hefner and Playboy, George Wallace, Gregory Peck, Kate Smith,

  3. How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel The Original Li’l Bit Mary-Louise Parker

  4. How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel The Original Uncle Peck David Morse

  5. How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird

  6. How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel • Music References • Roy Orbison, “Sweet Dreams” • Beach Boys, “Little Surfer” • Shirelles, “Dedicated to the One I Love” • Sam Cooke, “You Send Me” • Five Satins, “In the Still of the Night” • Gary Puckett and the Union Gap, “This Girl is a Woman Now”; “Come Back When You Grow Up” • Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass • Carl Orff, Carmina Burana

  7. How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel Buick Riviera

  8. How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel Cadillac Eldorado

  9. How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel 1956 Chevy Bel Air

  10. cummings, “she being Brand” she being Brand -new;and youknow consequently alittle stiff i wascareful of her and(having thoroughly oiled the universaljoint tested my gas felt ofher radiator made sure her springs were O. K.)i went right to it flooded-the-carburetor cranked her up,slipped theclutch(and then somehow got into reverse shekicked whatthe hell)nextminute i was back in neutral tried and again slo-wly;bare,ly nudg. ing (my lev-er Right-oh and her gears being inA 1 shape passedfrom low throughsecond-in-to-high likegrasedlightning How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel

  11. cummings, “she being Brand” just as we turned the corner of Divinity avenue i touched the accelerator and give her the juice,good (it was the first ride and believe i we washappy to see how nice she acted right up tothe last minute coming back down by the PublicGardens i slammed on theinternalexpanding&externalcontractingbrakes Bothatonce and brought allofher tremB-lingto a:dead. stand-;Still) How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel

  12. How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel Poussion, Rape of the Sabine Women (1634)

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  17. How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel Hugh Hefner in London, 1969

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