The playwright may have excluded Rebecca's father and Sojourner Truth from the action to emphasize the personal struggle and conflict between Rebecca and her mother, highlighting the generational divide on issues of women's rights. Their absence also allows the focus to remain on the female characters' perspectives and experiences in the suffrage movement.
Sojourner Truth
by Joanna Evans
The fight for suffrage drives a wedge between a spirited young woman and her mother. . . .
Characters
NARRATOR
REBECCA, 17 years old
MAMA, her mother
BEFORE RISE: NARRATOR enters, addresses audience.
NARRATOR: Did you know that women in the United States weren’t allowed to vote until 1920? That’s when the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, extending voting rights to all women. If you do your math, you’ll find that women couldn’t vote for nearly 150 years after our nation was created out of the Revolutionary War. . .talk about injustice!
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Question
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Both Rebecca’s father and Sojourner Truth are influential in the play, but neither of them appears. In 1-2 short and small sentences, draw conclusions about why the playwright did not include these characters in the play’s action.
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