In Brighton Beach Memoirs there are 2 themes I noticed while reading. One theme is imagination. While Eugene is outside "playing" baseball he imagines himself playing in the World Series with some of the best to ever play. He puts this game before anything. While his Aunt has a headache he still pitches the ball against the wall making her headache worse. And he even tell his mother to wait so he can finish the inning that wasn't really happening. Eugene even announces the game like a real announcer would. The other theme in Brighton Beaxh Memoirs is poverty. Eugenes family isn't very wealthy and has many people living in a small house. Stan who is another person who is living in the house described that he had gotten fired from his job that day. In order for him to get his job back he had to write a letter explaining his apology to his boss. Jack who has 2 jobs explains that one is going out of business and now he only has one job. With only one person working the family is going to run out of money quickly. With many people fleeing their countries because of the Hitler Regime , Jack concerned that his family members will come to America and try to live with them. This is concerning because with the amount of people in the house already they are already struggling and with even more that could possibly come to live in the house they would struggle even worse if they don't find more work.

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This is the trailer of the the movie for Brighton Beach Memoirs. This relates because this is what the Play is but just a movie.