Name : Yuni Prihartanti
NIM : A320080003
Class : B
The Zoo Story
Drama Assignment
A.Structural Element
1.Character and Characterization
a. The Major Character
1)Jerry who is slightly younger than Peter. He is a handsome man who had a trim and lightly muscled body. He is a lower middle class man who has no job and lives in a slum apartment. He is uneducated man and also a homosexual man. He is a homosexual and a temperamental man.
2)Peter who is 40 years old, he is neither fat nor gaunt, and also he is neither neither handsome nor homely. He is an educated man and he is comes from high class society.
b. The Minor Character
1) Colored Queen
2) Puerto Rican Family
3) The Landlady
4) The Girl
2.Plot
One day, Jerry sits on a bench in the Central Park and there he comes across Peter. The two men are strangers but later they introduce themselves to each other and keep the conversation going. One thing Jerry always insists Peter to know is that he has been to the zoo. He tells the new friend about animals at the zoo. The two are involved in a long various chats until at a point; Jerry tickles Peter’s ribs, driving Peter into almost hysterical laughter. He pokes and forces Peter to move down the bench. Peter decides to fight for the bench, but when Jerry clicks open a knife and tosses it at him, Peter refuses to pick it up. Jerry rushes over, grabs him by the collar, slaps him, spits on his face, and forces Peter to dart for the knife. Eventually Jerry commits to suicide. However, it's by the hand of Peter.
3.Setting
a.Setting of place is on a bench of New York City’s central park, it is Peter’s favorite place.
b.Setting of time is on Sunday afternoon in summer.
4.Point of View
Jerry is the major character and he is the first person.
5.Style
The author used standard grammatical structure.
6.Theme
The main theme of this drama is about the bad side from the social gap between the upper and lower social class. So, it caused Jerry wants to kill himself by using Peter’s hand.
B.Technical Element
1.Mise-en-scene
a.Costumes and Make-up
1)Peter is about forty years old and he also neat in his appearance. He wears tweeds, smoke a pipe, carries horn-rimmed glasses.
2)Jerry is younger than Peter. He is a lower middle class man and he is uneducated man. He is a good looking man. He is a homosexual. He wears carelessly clothes.
b. Set Dressing and Props
Set of Property are the bench of the zoo and the knife.
c.Lighting
There is difficult to analyze the lighting, but in this script we can show there is has natural lighting like on Sunday afternoon in summer.
C.Conclusion
The man faced society or man to society
