Abigail And Louis Love America Analysis

Scene 3 of Act 4 is an intense one. Belize and Louis has a confrontation with each other and on the surface, it is two people who dated the same person before fighting with each other, but to dig in deeper, Belize makes a statement about the hypocritical America and white America. Belize says Louis is, “[u]p in the air, just like that angel, too far off the earth to pick out the details. Louis and his Big Ideas. Big Ideas are all you love. ‘America’ is what Louis love” (Kushner 96). He says that Louis is thinks too broadly of things to where he is blind or straight up does not care for missing details that are just as important. He states that Louis loves America because they are like. Implying that America is like Louis, glamorous and under …show more content…
Terminal, crazy and mean” (Kushner 96). Belize experience a side of America that Louis never seen. Belize knows information that Louis never bothered to ask about. It is not like Louis’ America is not real, but the point is that Belize’s America is real too. Louis acts like he knew everything, but once Belize tells him his perspective, all Louis can say is “…I didn’t know,” where Belize replies, “… you never bothered to ask” (Kushner 96). Kushner is trying to say that, people cannot assume they know everything because we all live different lives, in different ways, and with different identities. For a white person, Louis, to try to tell as black person, Belize, what he thinks the reality of the situation is wrong. Louis does not know what it is like to be in Belize’s shoes. The least he can do is bother to ask instead of getting angry, upset, and defensive, especially when he does not know the whole truth. When someone sets a person straight about something that the other individual clearly did not know about, whether it is something socially, economically, or whatever, saying “I don’t know” is not good enough, especially when that individual choose to stay ignorant by choosing to not ask or