Bibliographic record
Abstract
In Father Comes Home from the Wars: Parts 1, 2 & 3 (2014), Suzan-Lori Parks depicts a black slaves experience of the American Civil War.Part 1 focuses on a black protagonist, Hero, who faces a difficult decision to go to war as a Confederate soldier.Going to war for the Confederacy means that he will fight for the American South in support of the maintenance of slavery when he wants to fight against it.But Hero decides to go to war, and he departs for the battlefield with his white owner, called Boss-Master.His wife, Penny, is left behind at home in West Texas.Part 2 is set on the battlefield, where Hero meets Smith, a Union soldier and a captive of Boss-Master (called Colonel in Part 2).Although Smith is a black man, he passes for white with his "fair" skin.After learning Smiths racial identity, Hero decides to free Smith from captivity.This is the end of Part 2.Then, in Part 3, Hero comes home from the war, alive.His survival and homecoming (along with the news of Boss-Masters death) delight Penny very much, but soon the reunion scene disintegrates into total confusion as Hero suddenly announces his new wife, Alberta, expecting her to be welcomed.In desperation, Penny decides to leave Hero.The last scene shows Hero alone with his dog in an old slave cabin, preparing for the burial of the Boss-Master.Unlike many of Parkss black tragic protagonists, Hero survives his struggles and begins his life anew.He even changes his name to "Ulysses," the name taken after the Union General Ulysses S. Grant.Nonetheless, the plays ending emphasizes the tragic aspect of the black experience in the United States.Observing the way in which Heros involvement with the Civil War causes him to experience of emotions of confusion and contradiction about his beliefs, Father Comes Home reads as a story of Heros suffering and his loss of the cultural bond with his old community in the tumultuous context of American history.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".