KATE How many times have I told you not to leave your things around the house? EUGENE A hundred and nine. KATE What? EUGENE You said yesterday, "I told you a hundred and nine times not to leave your things around the house." BLANCHE Don't be fresh to your mother, Gene! EUGENE (To the audience) Was I fresh? I swear . . . That's what she said to me yesterday . . . One day I'm going to put all this in a book or a play. I'm going to be a writer like Ring Lardner or somebody -- that's if things don't work out first with the Yankees, or the Cubs, or the Red Sox, or maybe possibly the Tigers . . . If I get down to the St. Louis Browns, then I'll definitely be a writer. Explain Eugene's perspective on what's happening in this scene. Support your response with details from the text.

In this scene, Eugene is actually answering to her mother, although the answer may be a little sarcastic, it was the truth. He doesn't feel he's being "fresh" and that's why he starts talking to the audience asking if he is fresh because he cannot believe the situation: "Was I fresh? I swear... That's what she said to me yesterday (...)".

Explanation:

To complete this exercise, you have to explain Eugene's perspective in the scene. When he starts talking to the audience, he talks about how he's going to put all those conversations in a book or a play, and the play, which is called "Brighton Beach Memoirs" is a semi-autobiographical play.

honestly, school in itself just seems to be a huge waste of time. a lot of people graduate but still end up not doing anything in college anyways, which really makes the whole point of graduating seem useless. i'd rather not bring anyone's hopes up then. what i'd recommend is for whoever's reading this to simply drop out.

i mean, kanye did it. he said something along the lines of, "don't let society tell you what to do." now, he's obviously a very successful person, and since his album is called the college dropout i guess he never really had to go through all that nonsense in order to become a millionaire. the same goes for anyone else then.

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.