Pawhuska

Melissa Wong
March 11, 2015
Andrew Forrester
DISC 1313
 Escaping Heartland America
 Pawhuska, Oklahoma, a town of a little less than four thousand people, is where Tracy Lett’s play turned movie August: Osage County is set. Beverly Weston, the patriarch and a heavy alcoholic, has disappeared and eventually commits suicide, leaving behind his psychotic wife, Violet, in the care of a newly hired caretaker, a Native American named Johnna. After their father’s disappearance, Beverly’s adult children; Barbara,Ivy, and Karen, along with several other family members, return home to offer their company to Violet. Violet, mixed with the effects of her medicine and her bitterness towards her children for moving away, is emphatically unpleasant and…

Chief Pawhuska, the Osage chief during this time, urged the purchase of this land as an act of safety for the tribe. He thought it would be beneficial to purchase land the white man did not want, so they did not have to live in fear losing their land again (Ball). Little did the Osage people know this relocation was only the beginning of the tragedy they would face in relation to their new land. Before tragedy struck, the Osage people experienced a period of success, luck, and great wealth. All…

Communication Analysis Introduction Within todays media, the relationships between each characters have become a focal point for those who watch as they try to connect themselves to the characters they see in an effort to place themselves into their shoes. In August: Osage County, we are greeted to the Weston family of Pawhuska, Oklahoma during a very hot August. As the plot unfurls, we learn the problems that tie this family together and how they try to handle them, be it in a positive or…

Bickert’s class, Modern American Drama, we have been reading plays about the struggles of American society. One of the that we have read is a play called Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill. This play tells the story about a family struggling with addiction, and they’re hard and eventually vain attempt to fix things. They play in a drama and is semi-autobiographical. The play that I read to compare in comparison, is a dark comedy play called August: Osage County by Tracy Letts. It…