Twilight Los Angeles 1992 Analysis

In the monolauge of “Twilight Los Angeles, 1992” Anna Deaver Smith, the Author and actor of the play states “It is not an answer. It is not a solution. I am first looking for the humanness inside the problems, or the crises. This spoken word is evidence of humanness. Perhaps the solution comes further down the road.” When Smith says this, she means that she is looking for peoples “Humanness”, as in the things that make up human beings, such as thoughts and emotions when in the crises to tell the process of how and why the problem occurred. In this Smith is not offering any specific solution. Rather she is documenting the way different individuals dealt with the riots which offers individual solutions to the problems smith dramatizes, but not solutions to the
He explains that there was a sense of tension in the air. He described it as so palpable you could cut it with a knife. When he was at lunch at a restaurant he described the people eating at the restaurants all as white upper middle class. He described that the main feeling he felt was guilt. Guilt that everyone was going on with they’re daily business while people rioting in the streets. Also, racial guilt as he felt that the white community was responsible for the riots. The solution this offers to the problems smith describes would be to show how us how people need more diverse thinking. It is not just the white community, black community, Latino community, or the Korean community all of these different facets of people are all part of the community. Once we can start to remember this it will aid in stopping this tension of racial divide. The humaneness smith is looking for in this situation is the feeling of guilt this man experienced. To feel guilt is something that is a strictly human quality and it shows that he feels empathy with the