Analysis: The Piano Lesson by August Wilson

Auguste Wilson's piano lesson tells the story of a family whose past pain and the struggle against their peace continue. The story begins with a boy Willie coming from the south to his sister Bernis. Boy Willie introduced the idea of ​​selling family heirlooms, pianos to collect enough money to buy the land of his ancestral slave. But both boy Willie and his sister Berniece have half of the piano, and she refuses Boy Willie to sell it.

"I gained the power of death" (Wilson 29). Like the African-American playwright August Wilson, you may understand this phrase by a piano-class boy Willie. In this article, we will focus on several things about his life. (Britannica Concise Encyclopedia), August Wilson was born on 27th April 1945 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was born in Frederick August Kittel, Jr. German immigrant son, Frederick Augusto Kittel, his mother is an African American named Daisy Wilson.

In "Piano lessons", August Wilson depicts the life of a 30-year-old family in the dilemma as the ancestor's piano was sold to buy his ancestors as slaves. The piano teaches many courses, but the most important thing is that you have to stick to your heritage and you must stick to economic improvement not just everything else. Piano lessons teach several basic lessons about African American culture. I felt Wilson responsible for his African slave past. In this way, his drama teaches the responsibility to respect your heritage. It is related in 1913 as much as in the great literary tradition. An older generation of drama, Doaker, represents a distant era in American history, and proves the past. He talked about a piano saying to his friend Leimen "This is the story of our family" (page 45). The drama work in the drama is to bring the background story of the blood stained piano to the audience.

In her article "History classes in Wilson play in August: Reality and imbalance", Anne Fresh learned from the piano "universal lesson" that we can forget the past no matter how much effort I can not do it. We can try to repress it and try to suppress it, but the African past "never dies" (45). From wooden sculptures to piano songs, August Wilson gives the audience insight into the history of forgotten past and forgetting it. When she began playing the piano again, Bernham Charles reconnected to her ancestors. At the end of the game, the little boy Willie reminded Berniece to continue playing the piano and warned her if she chose to ignore the past. "Hi, Berniece ... If you keep Maretha playing the piano with you ... do not explain ... me and Sutter are responsible for returning" (Wilson 108)