Symbolism of Piano Essay

Reflection: This prompt makes you not only think about everyday objects that are meaningful to us but how they impact our lives in even the slightest way. That piano impacted each and everyone of those characters and in good and bad ways. It just makes you think of all the everyday things that might impact your life with out you even thinking about it. 

Prompt: Storytelling proves to be one of the most powerful element of information transferred throughout the play. The Piano has it's own story. In a well Developed essay, explain the significance of the Piano's story and it's impact on the characters in the play. 

Essay: 
           In the book "The Piano Lesson" by August Wilson all of the characters have a connection and it impacts their lives everyday. This connection is the piano that was carved by Papa Boy Willie.  Berniece, Boy Willie, Doaker, and Wining Boy are all impacted by the piano, they all have a significant memory of thought about it and they all want to deal with it in their own way. 
                Berniece is impacted by the piano because she grew up with their mother putter her blood and swear into preserving the piano. Her mother would polish it and play it and then polish it some more. This memory impact Berniece everyday, she has not played the piano since her mother died and she doesn't want to sell it either, she wants to preserve the memory. Her father died over the piano and she wasted to respect that, Boy Willie want to respect that too but in a different way. 
                 Boy Willie is impacted everyday by the piano too, because he just sees it sit there and in his mine it is just rotting away. Boy Willie's Father died over the piano  and he wanted to prove to himself and everyone else that he could make something out of himself with the the money from the piano by buying the land that his family worked on for years. This is why he would like to sell the piano and buy the land, to make a living and a statement that he is just as good as any white man. This though is all Doaker and Wining Boy ever thinking about, everyday.. all day. 
                  Doaker charles and Wining Boy were the brothers of Boy Charles who is Berniece and Boy Willies father. Doaker and Wining Boy helped Boy Charles steal the piano from the Sutters. They didn't die but Boy Charles did and they are living with that memory.  Doaker lets that piano sit there day after day in his house and haunt him of his brothers death, but he never says anything, he just keeps it to himself. Wining Boy on the other hand becomes a musical artist and play out his guilt in the piano, he also gambles a lot and hies behind that after he stops playing the piano. All the characters have their own story with the piano and they all are dealing with it. 
                  Berniece, Boy Willie, Doaker and Wining Boy are all from the same family and are all heavily impacted by that piano. They all have their own idea as of what to do with the piano, and what is right or wrong. The carvings and the memories will never go away they will continue to linger.