The Piece Hold For Three And Was Authored By Sherry Kramer

Xuanchang Zhang
Professor: Dresser
ENG 203
9 Feb 2018
Skills Check 3
1 The piece is titled Hold for Three and was authored by Sherry Kramer.
2 In the piece, there are three characters Scottie, Ed and Bartey all of whom are probably in their late teens or early 20s. They are seated at beach on the water’s edge when Ed is dared to hold his breath until the moon is fully out, which he does, barely. When the moon starts to shine at the horizon Scottie holds Ed on the shoulders and tells him that he can manage to do it. She keep insisting to Ed that he can beat the time clock. At the start of the conversation, she is seen to mention to Ed that he needs to take a big one. This is to mean that Ed needs to take in a huge breath of air which would then allow him to reach the three minute target. The three minutes is a time that the three seem to have taken into account probably from a previous attempt to gauge how long the moon took to completely come over the horizon. From time to time, Scottie will give Ed an analogy which needs to keep going. At one time she tells Ed to imagine that he had disarm six missiles underwater and the world was counting on him, she also gives him one about having to stay quiet to avoid being killed by the storm troopers and even towards the end she tells her to imagine that he was God during creation.
3 The author uses very clear diction in the piece, with the employment of short sentences. For example other than the coaching sequences, the rest of the statements from eit...