Thom Pain

So I don't exactly know what to make out of this short play, but from what I gather the author is trying ton convey that nothing is for sure, that anything can happen at anytime and its just "whatever." what happens to you won't effect me, and what happens to me won't effect you, most likely. unless of course I give you the details of what happened to me like my dog got electrocuted and then maybe you will also be a bit effected by what happened to me, you will feel for me. everything is very unspecific and unorganized and all over the place. he begins talking about fear, but doesn't seem to really define it correctly how we would know it as, so it leaves us guessing how our fear may be different than others. as the play goes on you can sense a general theme that nothing can really be predicted so the author continues to jump from one topic to another than back to the first and leaves the audience confused but still understanding at the same time in my opinion if that makes any sense. For example, there was no context to the boy dressed in the cowboy suit in the puddle at first, then topics changed briefly but then we geared back to this little boy and now his dog and although it says the boy loves the dog and the dog loves the boy that goes south real quick when the dog dies from a telephone pole and while the audience is left applaud that that was added into a play, then realize and understand that it is the truth that nothing is predictable and life isnt always just a boy loving his dog but also the tragedies that come with it.