Annie Capulet Monologue

Annie Desmond and her friends Talisha and Margie are inner-city teens struggling with the many implications of living in a lower-income community. Annie’s mother, Myrna Desmond, had Annie when she was in junior high school and still dreams of being a writer. Myrna is a cleaning lady for an office and she repeatedly has gotten in trouble for messing with the computers in the office.Annie and her mother have a strained relationship due in part to the fact that Myrna resents Annie for being born and preventing her from achieving her dreams. Myrna doesn’t even call Annie on her sixteenth birthday. Annie is the only one of her friends who is still a virgin, Margie is currently seeing a guy named Jerome and Talisha has a bad habit of dating men way older than who don’t always treat her kindly. The girls live in a world in which cell phones are the main identifiers of social class and economic standing and sex can be as cheap and meaningless as you want. Annie decides to get a tattoo like Margie did from a guy named Antwoine. There is also a guy named Malik who has shown an interest in Annie. All of this contributes to the first portion of the shape of the play: the stasis. The intrusion occurs when Annie enters a pact with Talisha and Margie to get pregnant and have a baby shower together. This intrusion provokes all of the action that follows, including the last five of the play. The last five actions of Milk Like Sugar …show more content…
The play concludes with Malik pursuing his dream of a better life by going to school at the University of Iowa. Talisha has dropped out of school and moved in with the older man that hits her and Margie has her own family and is attending night school. Keera has changed schools. Annie and her mother’s relationship is more strained than ever before, possibly because Annie is now pregnant. However, Annie looks into the telescope and smiles, as if realizing that she can still pursue a better