Controlable The Characterization of Digou

sleep. Digou then looked up and saw a fire and See-goh-poh was naked and screamed at that time. She screamed with legs spread so far apart. Digou tells his sisters about the fact of See-goh-poh, So far that a mouth opens up. A mouth between her legs. A mouth that is throwing up blood, spitting out blood. More and more blood” Act 2, p. 224-225. It depicts a situation in which See-goh-poh give a birth to a baby. He even tells the detail of the story when See-goh-poh hits the blood baby to hear the baby cries until the baby sucks her breast. Digou tells the truth because he wants to open his sisters’s eyes in order to make them realize that during all this time they have been lied to themselves because See-goh-poh is not like they think. See-goh-poh was not in the mission trip when Digou accompanies her, she hides her pregnancy instead so that no one knows she has a baby out of marriage. At the end, he tells them about See-goh-poh’s request before death. DI-GOU: In her last moment, See-goh-poh wanted to be buried in Chinese soil, not Christian soil. You don’t know. You were in the Philippines. [ Pause ] I come to bring you back to China. Come, sisters. To the soil you’ve forsaken with ways born of memories, of stories that never happened. Come, sisters. The stories written on your face are the ones you must believe. [ AMA rises from her chair .] AMA: We will never believe this [ She collapses back into her chair, close her eyes ] Act 2, p. 226-227 For all this thirty two years, Digou keeps silent because he never meet them during the time. When he visits them for the first time, he should keep silent about the truth. He should not ruin the situation and make his sisters upset in the first day of their meeting. However, he cannot deny that he knows the truth and he is not able to act like he does know anything about see-goh-poh. He knows the risk and consequences that he will face if he tells them the truth about See-goh- poh but his courageous and wiseness help him to do it without any qualms. By telling the truth to Ama and Popo, he will make them depressed but he insists in doing so because he cannot deny himself. Therefore, he prefers not to tell any lies to his family.

4. Wise

Another characteristic that is reflected throught the characteristics of Digou in this play is his wiseness. He tells his sisters that it is wrong to praise ancestors who were flawed and human just like common people. He asserts that Americans of Asian origin have to realize that their ancestors has affected their contemporary identities. The reason why he obeys his sisters words and does not angry to them when they accuse him for telling a lie is not because he is afraid of his sisters, but because he is too wise to see the situation. He knows when is the right time to speak to them about his true experience with See-goh-poh. Another part that shows his wise characteristic is his dialogue with Chester. There are some moments in which the playwright establishes a bond between Di-gou and Chester. It is clear from Di-gou’s speeches that him and Chesters should be bonded together by a shared sense of what is Chinese. In the beginning of the play, Di-gou firstly appears as a viewer framed in the glass door. Later he makes his entrance in the same way, first looking in on the scene through the glass.