Leff’s “Burn Your Maps”: Dripping With Realistic Human Characteristics

Literary theorist Kenneth Burke defines a dramatic interpretation by defining five important elements. A list of this element, currently commonly known as Burke's Pentagon, can be used to evaluate human behavior, subjects and motivation for literary research. When practitioners of performance research convert text to aesthetics, five elements (agents, goals, scenarios, actions, agents) are found to be very useful. When systematically applying Burke's Pentad to "Burn Your Maps", Robyn Joy Leff released a short story of "Atlantic Monthly" published in January 2002. This can realistically grasp the emotional and logical motivation of the text. And it is healthy.

The story is set on the map's location on a small town that drips down arbitrarily on the meadow, tapped lightly in the middle of the mainland. In one era when the people around the phone dialed with a rotary dial, the equipment was trembling with the tense vibration of our limbs. Here I was in the Great Plains of Dakota, where I lived until I was 18 years old. Half the city of Napoleon, its name was so empireized that it could only be interpreted as a satirical joke for those who visited that quiet street. The explanation of Napoleon is similar to the explanation of obscure words. Therefore, I will use the numbers to explain their polite attributes. Zero stop lights, two bars, three gas stations, four churches. Napoleon's downtown block - hardware store, restaurant, 3 lane grocery store, pharmacy, bank. In addition to grain elevators and water towers, there are no buildings in towns up to two stories.

Can you imagine that you are a family living nearby? Do you think that you saw a car that a person who died got out of the gas chamber while you were working. Can you imagine that the smell of burning of the human body in the oven on the summer night drifts from the window of the bedroom? Can you imagine that your community is a place of genocide? What does daily life look like in this evil shadow? Many of us are aware of the wide range of poverty in the color race society, the dangerous discrimination spreading in our criminal justice system, and the inequality in the workplace. What does not become a headline is how race discrimination hurts blacks and brown of all ages and white people hate their difficulties. From surprisingly young age, children will be bombarded with news that color people are less valuable of man than white people.