A Spoonful of Water of by Hudes

In A Spoonful of Water, I found that Hudes use of interacting realities, in which both of the two different worlds that he established in the play parallel each other.  I found this to be most effective in the last scene, scene 15.  In the very ending of this scene,Elliot is confessing to Yaz that he knew how to probe Odessa to relapse and he intentionally engineered it because he was upset that the “good” mom died and that he needs to get away because he knows if he stays where he currently is he will become an addict as well and not be able to move forward, while simultaneously John has just finished bathing Odessa and he lifts her and holds her up and she looks like a radiant angel yet deathly sick.  I think that Hudes chose to intertwine these moments together because hey both parallel each other in that both Elliot and Odessa are deeply sick and addicted, they have had their fallings, but by Elliot deciding in that moment that he needs to go away and by having Odessa being viewed and held up like a radiant angel, Hudes is creating hope and the chance of renewal and transformation into some thing better.  By recognizing that he has an issue and needs to fix it, Elliot is already on the path to tat renewal, which balances John’s renewal, hope and commitment to helping Odessa and helping himself and even balances out Odessa, because she is “a radiant angel,” a symbol of hope in that moment.