The Vanishing Half Storyboard
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- Kennedy is seen as someone that only really cares for herself. "The pride was impossible to miss; she delighted in making others wait for her, sauntering through every held door" (Bennett 235). Kennedy is seen as a selfish person that thinks she's above everyone else. She's seen as insufferable.
- What kind of person are they?
- What they like/dislike?
- In the book, it states, "She worked harder in that musical than she'd ever worked at anything" (Bennett 278). Kennedy's passion is theatre and it's what she works hard it. She chose it over finishing college and managed to have a decent career.
- What are some key things they say?
- Kennedy creates a key moment when she rudely comments on Reese's and Jude's relationship."Nothing. But you know. Nobody really expects someone like him to be with you, do they? Kennedy laughed. 'You know I don't mean anything by it. I'm just saying. Your men usually like the light girls, don't they?" (Bennett 251) Kennedy saying this changes how the story itself unfolds. The next thing Jude says reveals that Stella had been truly lying to Kennedy her whole life.
- Kennedy doesn't have many long relationships in the story. One character she cared for is Frantz. "Frantz was her first black lover" (Bennett 272). In the story, Kennedy's boyfriend was Frantz. He wasn't like the guys she usually liked and was her first black lover.
- What/who do they love?
- Kennedy is a lazy girl that is spoon fed everything. It says in the book, "Only a lazy girl would get caught, and her daughter was clever but lazy, blissfully unaware of how hard her mother worked to maintain the lie that was her life" (Bennett 226). Kennedy is lazy because she knows she will get anything she wants in the end. Her parents spoil her, especially her father.
- What is the character like?
- What do they talk about?
- Kennedy would always try to figure out more about her mother's past. In the book, it states, "No it's not. You told me you were from a little town. It starts with an M. M-something. You told me when I was little" (Bennett 269). Stella lied to Kennedy about her past and Kennedy constantly tries to get her to tell the truth throughout the story. She wants her mother to tell her the truth.
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