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Paper as Story-making : One Day with Death

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One Day with Death opens to cunningly let the paper perform. Death, a paper-made character personified as the god of death, is the soul of figure to whom we easily get much close. As the audiences are watching the play, they are also watching the papers in display, and the paper unmask what we think of the story can be made in the play. The intrigue part of the play is the paper in performance via the artists' techniques. In terms of language, one may easily imagine that the usage of the paper is mainly for drawing and writing upon. As to the language, speaking marks the way to conversation. While receiving the words whether in listening or reading, one may directly obtain the messages from the other one. In the play, however, the paper becomes functional as it challenges the audiences' imaginations. These sheets on the table, a message of life that has come to an end of their life, must be gone through by the Death who helps accomplish their final step of the life. This mark