Project: Seneca Falls Dialogue Character Descriptions: Mr. Smith: Male. 27 years old. Middle Class. Works as a Baker.

ker. Single and is looking for a wife. No children.

Mr. ONeil: Male. 30 years old. Middle Class. Works as a Blacksmith. Married but is getting divorced. Has 2 children from his wife but has 3 others from other women.

Miss. Bennet: Female. 25 years old. Middle Class. Works as a nurse. Engaged, getting married soon (a week). Has no children.

Miss. Holmes: Female. 25 years old. Middle Class. Works as elementary school teacher. Married but hates her husband. Has no children.

Dialogue:
Setting: Shoe store in Harper, Oklahoma. Enter Mr. ONeil to the store and finds Mr. Smith looking for shoes

Mr. ONeil : Hello there Mr. Smith! Have you heard about the Seneca Falls Convention and the Declaration of Sentiments? Mr. Smith: Yes! There is no doubt that they are a joke! Mr. ONeil: Indeed! Why dont they go make me a sandwich?
Enter Miss. Bennet and Miss. Holmes

Mr. Smith: Who would take them seriously? No one Indeed! Anyway, how is your lady doing? Mr. ONeil: We will be divorced soon, Im hoping. She had joined the Womens Rights Movement and thinks she is equal to men! I recall the Declaration of Independence saying that all men were created equal and there was nothing stated about women at all! She is pathetic! Miss. Bennet: Women have equal rights as any man! According to the Declaration of Sentiments We hold the truth to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal!

Miss. Holmes: And that we are endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights; that among are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Mr. ONeil: Oh please! You think a man will take you seriously with those stupid ideas! Almost no man supports what you are saying right now, Madam! Stay in the kitchen because thats where all women belong! Miss. Holmes: Indeed not all men support what we are saying, Sir! But we will make them support us and all our rights and freedoms! Men dont decide where women should be! Miss. Bennet: Sir, I wont let you insult women like that! Why do men think that all women should do is cook, clean, take care of the kids and satisfy the mens desires. Mr. Smith: Well, thats why god made women!
Mr. Smith and Mr. ONeil laugh

Miss. Holmes: You men beat us, cheat on us, and still want us to stay in the kitchen and still want us to have no rights and freedoms! We are not allowed to get mens wages and our property is taken by our husbands! Yet, you expect us to sit quiet!

Mr. ONeil: And what rights and freedoms are you fighting for?

Miss. Bennet: A few of them are our right for elective franchise, our right to our property and wages, and our right to speak in church. Mr. Smith: Do you really think you deserve to have these rights? Miss. Holmes: We work just as hard as you do! Miss. Bennet: Here gentlemen! I have 2 copies of the Declaration of Sentiment! You may have them!
Miss. Bennet hands them 2 copies of the Declaration of Sentiments.

Miss. Holmes: The Declaration of Sentiments explains the complaints and demands of women. The organizers of the Seneca Falls Convention are Lucretia Mott and Cady Stanton. It was the FIRST meeting for womens rights movement. It was organized by a handful of women who were active in the abolition and temperance movements and held July 1920, 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York. Mr. ONeil: I dont want it.
Mr. ONeil Hands it back to Miss. Bennet

Mr. Smith: I would like to take a look at this! Thanks, Ladies! Goodbye! Both Miss. Bennet and Miss. Holmes: Goodbye, Gentlemen!
They all Exit the shoe store

By: Shames R. Jessica R. Jessica C.

and Sean O.