Joe Turner Come and Gone

After reading the play, I found the article very helpful. The article that I chose to read was “Yoruba Gods on the American Stage”. From the title, a gathered that Yoruba Gods have to do with African Heritage and that there aren’t many appearances of them in or on the American stage. Stated in the article, the two central themes that build throughout the entire play are desire and memory. These are two things that I didn’t specifically get out of my reading of the play. I thought about it and I remembered that the characters in the play told many stories to each other and shared numerous past experiences in order to explain who they were, where they had come from, and things they had seen. When I began thinking about he desires of these characters, I thought immediately of the people finder. It seemed that he was in business, because people had the desire to stay in touch with one another. With little knowledge of African heritage, I came to gather that as independent as they wanted to be, it was as a culture. They wanted to be free from their history. They also wanted to stick together, and it was through sharing these memories that they would do this.