The Tunnel Play Analysis

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Suicidal thoughts are just the beginning. How did they get to the conclusion of suicide? Well, many uncontrollable factors colliding, the end results are victims feeling they have no other path to take. The current predicament is that we have too much people ending their lives. The purpose of these performances in the tunnel is to inform about how big this whole situation is and hopefully people can experience what the victims go through. All of this is to hopefully educate different groups of people about this and maybe they can prevent it from happening in the future. College students are people that tend to keep their minds open the most and soak in this information more easily. The tunnel shines a spotlight on the message, statistic, and the audience. The Current situation is that we have too many incidences like this happening and we have most of the information we need to tell more people about it, but it would not be as easy. Young audiences performed this play because most have seen such incidences happening to their friends or loved ones. The whole act with the characters’ …show more content…
Other than the statistics coming from the posters, the raw emotions made the whole play in the tunnel feel much more important and how it needed to get some exposure to this since few have witness or feel they would never encounter this issue. If they were to have this issue happen to them, they would at least get a taste of what others have to go through from both the victim’s side and the person who tries to prevent it. If it was a bit longer and more background development such as emotional thoughts from posters of what the victim has to experience then it would have made a greater impact. This is effective as it is and it was necessary to get some exposure on this

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