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- Sandra Chen
- Username: sanrachen
- Location: San Francisco, California
- Joined PRX: May 02, 2009
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- "Overachiever"
- Summary: Is it wrong to push the limits? Erin Bilir is a high school overachiever, and doesn't think so.
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YEB review of Overachiever
Sandra Chen
Posted on August 22, 2009 at 03:14 PM
It's always refreshing to hear a piece that isn't cluttered with sound effects and adjectives. Overachiever was simple, a monologue about the inner thoughts of an overachiever and what is at the end of this burning passion to work hard. Simple. A bit too simple. The piece definitely had the potential to be great. With other voices, Erin could have created complexity to the piece, showing the type of person she wasn't and why. Maybe interviewing her own parents and having them describe her overachieving tendencies. What kind of extraordinary person does she want to be? Why? Character development is so crucial in a piece of self-reflection. What I got out of this piece was the tip of Ernest Hemingway's iceberg. I know there's more to this piece somewhere.