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Monologue Mania Day # 667 Swimming Against the Tide by Janet S. Tiger Dec. 10, 2015
Swimming Against the Tide
first year - Feb. 13, 2014 - Feb. 13, 2015
I've continued with a monologue a day until the spirit moves me to stop, so if you have any ideas for a monologue you want me to write, please let me know at tigerteam1@gmail.com.
If you just started this blog and want to read the earlier monologues-
For a list of the titles and blurbs from each day, click here There are now over 600!
Get more great award-winning monologues - MonologueZone.com
If you'd like to write your own monologues, I happen to have a book for that -
How to Write a Monologue in 10 Easy Lessons (Well, maybe not so easy)
Thank you for your comments - and for liking and sharing this site. Wishing you much success!
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Monologue Mania Day # 667 Swimming Against the Tide by Janet S. Tiger Dec. 10, 2015
Swimming Against the Tide
by Janet S. Tiger
© 2015 all rights reserved
tigerteam1@gmail.com
(The actor will be a Japanese young man- early 20s, nice-looking, slight accent - he is obviously troubled and has finally decided to ask the grandmother of his girlfriend for advice)
Thank you for talking with me, I have a problem with your granddaughter, and I need help. The problem is with.....I hope it is all right to discuss these things, in Japan I would not even think about it, but here, in the United States, things are different.
You see, the problem is with....sex.
(Sees the reaction and throws his hands up)
I am so sorry! I did not want to offend you! I am concerned because, you see, my family is Japanese, you know, I mean I know you know, but, we are different than most other Japanese.....we are not Buddhist, we are Catholic......for many hundreds of years......and......well, the problem is that I wanted to marry your granddaughter......(listens)....no the problem is not that she does not want to get married, well, yes, that is a small problem, all right, a big problem, but......you see.....my family is very religious......which has not been easy for us......
Let me explain a little about my family......two days before I was to come here to study, my father had a heart attack. (Difficult to remember this) He was very sick, and we were at the hospital, and he asked to see me.
I told him I was going to cancel coming here, and he was very upset. He told me that all his life he had saved so that I could come here, to UCLA.....it was a dream....his dream, and he made it mine. How could I leave him? He told me, if he died, I could go to mass here in the US.....but that if I stayed, he would forbid me to come to the tomb! He was...what is the word?....he insisted that I not give up the chance to start school.
I begged him, I said I could start after the funeral, but he refused. He said there is only one time to start the first time - that to stay with the dead, is to not go on with life, and I had to choose life.
So, I came here, and ....as a swimmer, I am always in the ocean, and I met your granddaughter at the beach in Santa Barbara. She was protesting the pollution from the oil spill, and I loved her from the first minute I saw her arguing with a man - shaking a picture of dead birds covered in oil!
(Listens, nods)
The problem with sex. (Listens) Oh, no, I like sex. Sex is good. In Japan, girls who have sex are expensive, but here, things are different. Everything is very different. But one thing is the same, babies.
I did not think this would be a problem, but now I find out, your granddaughter believes that to kill the baby is all right. And that is now the law in this country, that if a woman does not want the baby, she can have an.....(hard to say) an abortion.
So now there is a problem with sex. I want to marry her, but I also want her to have my babies.
It is very confusing for me! Swimming is much easier! I dive in, I swim, I lose the race, I win the race, it is simple. I like when things are simple.
So what do I do?
(He is a little nervous)
I ask you because, I do like to have the sex, but if she were pregnant, I would not want my baby to be......killed. This is more than just confusing.....(searches for the words)....it is .....like swimming.... against the tide.......
Thank you for listening I am waiting for your advice.....
(He bows, lights down)
© 2015 all rights reserved
tigerteam1@gmail.com
(The actor will be a Japanese young man- early 20s, nice-looking, slight accent - he is obviously troubled and has finally decided to ask the grandmother of his girlfriend for advice)
Thank you for talking with me, I have a problem with your granddaughter, and I need help. The problem is with.....I hope it is all right to discuss these things, in Japan I would not even think about it, but here, in the United States, things are different.
You see, the problem is with....sex.
(Sees the reaction and throws his hands up)
I am so sorry! I did not want to offend you! I am concerned because, you see, my family is Japanese, you know, I mean I know you know, but, we are different than most other Japanese.....we are not Buddhist, we are Catholic......for many hundreds of years......and......well, the problem is that I wanted to marry your granddaughter......(listens)....no the problem is not that she does not want to get married, well, yes, that is a small problem, all right, a big problem, but......you see.....my family is very religious......which has not been easy for us......
Let me explain a little about my family......two days before I was to come here to study, my father had a heart attack. (Difficult to remember this) He was very sick, and we were at the hospital, and he asked to see me.
I told him I was going to cancel coming here, and he was very upset. He told me that all his life he had saved so that I could come here, to UCLA.....it was a dream....his dream, and he made it mine. How could I leave him? He told me, if he died, I could go to mass here in the US.....but that if I stayed, he would forbid me to come to the tomb! He was...what is the word?....he insisted that I not give up the chance to start school.
I begged him, I said I could start after the funeral, but he refused. He said there is only one time to start the first time - that to stay with the dead, is to not go on with life, and I had to choose life.
So, I came here, and ....as a swimmer, I am always in the ocean, and I met your granddaughter at the beach in Santa Barbara. She was protesting the pollution from the oil spill, and I loved her from the first minute I saw her arguing with a man - shaking a picture of dead birds covered in oil!
(Listens, nods)
The problem with sex. (Listens) Oh, no, I like sex. Sex is good. In Japan, girls who have sex are expensive, but here, things are different. Everything is very different. But one thing is the same, babies.
I did not think this would be a problem, but now I find out, your granddaughter believes that to kill the baby is all right. And that is now the law in this country, that if a woman does not want the baby, she can have an.....(hard to say) an abortion.
So now there is a problem with sex. I want to marry her, but I also want her to have my babies.
It is very confusing for me! Swimming is much easier! I dive in, I swim, I lose the race, I win the race, it is simple. I like when things are simple.
So what do I do?
(He is a little nervous)
I ask you because, I do like to have the sex, but if she were pregnant, I would not want my baby to be......killed. This is more than just confusing.....(searches for the words)....it is .....like swimming.... against the tide.......
Thank you for listening I am waiting for your advice.....
(He bows, lights down)
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Janet S. Tiger 858-736-6315
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