Ensler's two goals of celebrating vaginas and raising awareness for women violence was set on both aspects throughout The Vagina Monologues and in the real world. I believe that it played an important role in both goals because Ensler thought outside the box and actually performed the monologues in front of live audiences; thus creating a personal connection through emotion and language. Tone most likely played an important aspect as well because usually when u hear someone’s tone change it makes it easier to create your own personal connection to the story that is being told. Ensler went even further and created something called The V-Day Movement. The V-Day Movement is a movement that demands violence to stop (pg. 174) it is usually most popular around February. Ensler uses her monologues to justify the importance of how crucial the violence of women can be; thus raising awareness. Ensler believes that "by taking V-Day worldwide, we can have the opportunity to use this powerful work as a catalyst for shifting our view of our personal relationship to violence and what is possible in a civil society" (pg. 176). Evidently V-Day must be effective because "In just three years, V-Day has raised and donated more than a million dollars to grassroots organizations that fight violence against women worldwide." (pg. 174)

I feel as if these two goals intertwined because if Ensler is trying to promote V-Day through women violence then a connection is made between vaginas due to the fact that it supports women in general. Although, there is a difference in the way she delivers these messages. When talking about vaginas Ensler delivers this through her monologues and during her monologues you can see through her language and through others people body language, tone and presence she celebrates vaginas. Throughout the monologues she actually gives facts about vaginas, in which I found very interesting. My favorite story was "The Flood", because at the end of the story the lady became upset, turned her body away and then u felt a sense of relief in her when she say, "You know, actually, you're the first person I ever talked to about this, and I feel a little bit better." (pg. 30) At this point in the monologues it became clear to me and this is when everything began to tie into each other and I finally learned the importance of The Vagina Monologues.

Reading the monologues all as one piece give you the full effect of the monologues itself because u tend to understand Ensler's style of writing better when you keep reading it. I personally read the book in one sitting because it interested me that much. During this sitting I had to read certain monologues over and over again and sometimes I even had to flip back to stories I already read while I was in the middle of a monologue because I wanted to put certain pieces of the puzzle together. This book was really great and I wish I would've participated in the actual play when it came to our campus because I feel like only then I would've got the full emotional aspect of the monologues. I recommend this book to any and everyone no matter what the age! A+...