Ironies in Play

Email 1:Hi there friend,Ever read the play Someday?

Email 2:Yes Heard about the release of the book on the play but havent read through it
Email 1:Well I just wanted to share my thoughts on the book?
Email 2:Ohh seems like you finished reading the whole book!!
Email 1:Ohh Yeah!!I wanted to share with you some famous ironies from the book
Email 2:Go Ahead
Email 1: arbitrariness imposed the loss, is one the famous ironies in the book
Email 2: Ohh nice lines
Email 1:There is one more, arbitrariness governs the win.
Email 2:I liked the first irony anayway
Email 1:Another line by author caught me. What I most often think about when I am lying awake in
the night, or when I am taking a long automobile trip alone, is my two parents and my maternal
grandfather.
This gives a distinct feel of the authors past memories
Email 2:These ironies are captivating,Im soon going to purchase the book

The answers to the questions are answered in two paragraphs below.

The story in SOMEDAY, though told through fictional characters and full of Taylors distinctive wit
and humour, is based on the real-life tragedies suffered by many Native Canadian families. Anne

Wabungs daughter was taken away by childrens aid workers when the girl was only a toddler. It is
Christmastime 35 years later, and Annes yearning to see her now-grown daughter is stronger than
ever. When the family is finally reunited, however, the dreams of neither women are fulfilled. The
setting for the play is a fictional Ojibway community, but could be any reserve in Canada, where
thousands of Native children were removed from their families in what is known among Native
people as the scoop-up of the 1950s and 1960s. SOMEDAY is an entertaining, humourous, and
spirited play that packs an intense emotional wallop.
This play was adapted by the author, an Ojibway, from a Christmas story he wrote. It concerns a
Native woman whose daughter was taken from her and put up for adoption 35 years back; the
daughter, who has grown up in a white middle-class family and become a lawyer, having traced her
birth mother, comes to see her. The reunion is brief and painful; finally the daughter cannot bear
recognizing that a member of the culture she grew up in took away a Native woman's child out of
arrogance and stupidity. The play is written in the style of a warm-hearted Christmas television
special, but with subversive effect. The situation, Christmas, a homecoming, is played for sentiment
and humor in order to provide a disarming frame for the recognition scene. Another element out of
television--the mother discovers at the beginning of the play that she holds a lottery ticket worth five
million dollars--provides a powerful irony: arbitrariness imposed the loss, arbitrariness governs the
win.