will be left behind. As the person continues to climb, she finds cans of paint, which she dips her hands into representing her discovery and use of ASL. Another person shakes the base of the ladder, causing her to spill the paint and create a sinkhole that the ladder starts to fall into. This becomes a moment of awareness for the person, that the mainstream culture is no longer where she wants to be, and she flails her arms to stay immersed in her new language and culture. Another iteration of this theme is in the poem "To A Hearing Mother", by Ella Mae Lentz. This work takes on the daunting task of conveying to the mother of a deaf child why his other, equally important, family and home will be in the Deaf community. Another common theme in Deaf literature and culture is the idea of the community "coming into the light", which is related to the closeness Deaf community members feel when they are together due to a shared means of communication. A production by the National Theatre of the Deaf, My Third Eye, plays with the theme of light. In one scene, after a helicopter rescues a person from a violent storm at sea, the sun rises over the water, which is depicted by Deaf performers use their hands to depict shining rays of sun. The gathering of the Deaf community creates hope, and therefore light. Another common theme of ASL Literature touched on in My Third Eye is the "two-world condition", which deals with the position of the Deaf minority culture existing within the hearing majority culture of society. One of the characters recounts his experience of arriving at a residential Deaf institute, which was an unfamiliar environment, and being left there by his mother for the first time. Over time, he beings to realize that the people of the majority culture have a different view of reality and a different way of living than the minority culture within the institute. Another traditional story commonly told in the Deaf community, Eyeth, reverses this two-world condition so that Deaf culture is the majority and hearing culture is the minority. In the version retold by Sam Supalla, a young Deaf boy does not want to return home to his hearing family for the weekend. A teacher tells him about a planet known as Eyeth, where everyone communicates through