Baruch Voices was held on Thursday, November 2. The winners of their classes monologue performed their winning monologues here. I honestly didn’t expect much because I thought it would all be some type of boring poems. However, there were many different monologues ranging from actually intense poems to raps. There were three memorable monologues besides Tammy’s.
The first monologue was from a black girl who talked about herself in her poem. She described the stereotyping she would get from other people just because she was colored and that they only saw her as someone stupid. But in her entire monologue, she repeated proved them wrong not only in writing but also in her delivery.
The second monologue was a rap from a bit scrawny looking white boy. This is exactly who you wouldn’t expect to be rapping for their monologue. You would instead expect a decently muscular black boy instead. But anyway, he rapped at a decent rate and had some sort of flow to it about politically controversial topics.
The third monologue was a story from an Asian boy. His story was about his experience in a hospital story and how he almost lost his job. He starts it talking about him being assigned to an elderly Jewish man. The old man was being dramatic and after a while, the boy got impatient and just threw him into the wheelchair. Then as he was wheeling him down the hall and through a door, the wheelchair hit the door and made the old man fly upwards and then back down. The next trouble was at the staircase and this might’ve been his most comical mistake. As he pushed the elderly man down the stairs one of the handles came loose which caused the wheelchair to slightly swerve right. So in the heat of the moment he decided to jam it back in which cause the wheelchair to fly completely right and the old man faceplanted onto the wall.
All in all, the experience was better than I expected. I had expected to leave after Tammy’s but I stayed for almost all of them except for the last two.