Rider to the Sea

Rider to the sea and Angels in America share a similar situation. Maurya loses all her sons to the sea, and even her husband. The sea is not an epidemic, but somehow it still has a way of killing her loved ones in different ways. So, in a way, the sea can be a metephor to the AIDS epidemic. In Angels in America, many different people are also losing their loved ones, but to the AIDSepidemic. It can be prevent, but somehow, mistakes causes it to happen to them.