Water By The Spoonful

Water By the Spoonful-

I decided to choose scene 7.  In scene 7 Odessa is talking with john for the first few pages then enters Elliot and Yaz.  Elliot and Yaz are trying to get money from Odessa to pay for flowers to bring to their aunt’s funeral.  After bickering over it for a little bit, John then decides to interrupt the conversation and then introduce himself.  Odessa continues to refuse to give them any money and it is in this scene that we find out that Elliot is Odessa’s son.  After rejecting her sons pleads for money he tells the story of Mary Lou, then she offers to give them her computer to pawn for money.  This scene is a big moment, it is the first time the audience gets to see Odessa away from the computer and is also the first time the worlds of chat room and real life collide and we learnt the story of Odessa’s daughter.  This is a pivitol scene that pushes the plot forward and helps us understand more of the motivations coming from Elliot and Odessa.

John Michael Moore