"Our Town- By Thornton Wilder Thornton Niven Wilder was born in Madison, Wisconsin on April 17, 1897. ... Another one of his works, "Our Town,"" was a play which also won the Pulitzer Prize for "letters: Drama- in 1938. The creativity and attention to detail within, that emerge in such works, have earned Wilder a great deal of respect and renown in the literary realm and beyond "Our Town- begins in the town of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, just before sunrise on May 7, 1901. ... "Our Town- is a play about simple life, ordinary events, learning to not take life for granted,...

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Our Town In the play Our Town, Thornton Wilder uses the commentary about certain social issues to further exemplify the point that the people of Grover's Corner are really quite conservative and rather passive while they let life pass them by. ... Very ordinary town, if you ask me... But our young people seem to like it well enough. ... Since suicide is very rarely seen especially in a small town like Grover's Corner, one would expect that the town's people would attempt to keep it a secret. ... At the beginning of the play it is mentioned that there is very little drinking...

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"Our Town" is a synthetic play as the action is developed and consumed in itself. ... The subject of the play is the town and the objective of the action is achieving full harmony. ... Reading "Our Town," it is unlikely to have any kind of thrill or feeling. ... "Our Town" is an accurate portrait of the simple life. ... Before "Our Town," the reader considered himself unique and special and now he becomes aware of his pettiness and of the fact that he is only a character with a predefined course, as if he had received at birth a chart of do's and don't&#...

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In the play Our Town, the people of Grover's Corners mask their worries and apprehensions about death in their quest for happiness. ... The stage manager directs the flow of the play throughout, and his transient attitude towards death reflects Grover's Corners overall outlook on a life that tries to mentally avoid death. ... He tips his hat to the ladies (P.21) The stage manager again in his embodiment of the town must intervene on this discussion and he proceeds to change the subject. This represents once more the town's hesitance to talk about things upsetting the daily routi...

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Progressive Life In his play, Our Town, Thornton Wilder uses a unique structure in comparison to other plays. ... He creates scenes that are universally understood by any person in any town. ... He does this in an effort to continue universalizing his play. ... In the play, several of the characters are dead and are reflecting back on their lives from a different point of view. ... Wilder succeeds, throughout his play, in recreating the inspiring quality of everyday living. ...

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Our whole family and friends would gather every morning until night to help out. We would pick the currants on a hot, humid day from small, green bushes that were planted on our land. ... While adults were gone kids and I would play in the yard. ... Playing in the sand was great. ... I spent most of my early childhood playing in this magical kingdom. ...

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The fundamentals of a play, such as the sets, lighting, make-up, and costuming, are some of the characteristics to which create the feeling for a dramatic play or musical. ... Out of the three movies we watched in class, The King and I, Our Town, and Les Miserables, the different usages of each characteristic helps bring out the varieties in establishing a play. ... Even though the sets were different, the feeling of the play was brought out. In contrast, I believe that Our Town provided a diverse approach in the usage of the set. ... These fundamentals of stage performance create a total feel...

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Meanwhile, across town, a family of three is also getting ready for today's game. ... Isn't an athlete supposed to want to play any way he can? Players will even stop playing completely if they think that they aren't making enough money. ... They may be good at what they do, but so are the teachers that shape our future, and so are the police officers and fire fighters that help make the world we live in a better place. ... It is the spectators who are willing to pay the money to see Michael Jordan or Barry Bonds play. ...

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Her "fits" or convulsion, contortions and outbursts of gibberish baffled everyone in the small town. ... In 1672 Salem Village, a small farming village split from Salem Town, a prosperous town in Massachusetts. ... When the town physician could not diagnose the girls, it was assumed they were victims of witchcraft. ... The justice system of the time period also played a role in unjustly accusing these men and women. ... The fact that our country was still developing played a huge role in the conviction of these people. ...

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Patrick uses each character as a symbol of people in our society. ... While we see the guests inside the home changing for the better, Patrick teaches us a lesson about our world when we see the "sane- characters of this play becoming those who show the most need for change. ... Irony comes into play several times during the play, especially with Captain Fisby being the one who is changed instead the Tobiki villagers. ... In an attempt to escape from her hectic life as a Hollywood star, Marla decides to flee to a small New England town, only to find that life is just the same anywhere she ...

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During our viewings the issue regarding conflict in color, light skin and dark skin, did not strike me in any of the two movies. ... In "Within our Gates," the alcoholic character was portrayed a darker skinned man. ... "Within Our Gates" not only confronts the race problem but also displays the lifestyle and attitudes of the black middle class. ... After Gridlestone was shot and killed by a white farmer Efram was the one to run around town to accuse Jasper in order to gain favor of the white men who would be looking to avenge his death. ... History plays a large role in the film and the flas...

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She also showed us patients that are playing volleyball. ... For me, the most unforgettable part of our tour is when we went to "Manila Boys Town". ... After we prepared a program for them, we entered Manila Boys Town. ... On the other side of the venue, my bus mates playing "Nanay at Tatay" and we joined them because Samuel likes to play. ... And then we played "Doctor Kwak Kwak....

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We had arrived at our destination and our missionaries, Nicky and Janie, had pointed out our hotel, which was on the left hand side of the van. ... We left the town that night and went back to our hotel, unpacked, and prepared ourselves for the journey to come in the next four days. ... The next day we woke up, ate breakfast, and climbed into the vans ready to begin our work in the town. ... As we continued to play, more and more kids began to come play with us. ... However, walking away from the town that night, I learned all that she needed was someone to play with her, talk to her, and show...

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Lucas is a very small town. ... Our dinner typically will be a big, juicy steak, hot from my father's grill. I get down from my bar stool and head to our long, oak table directly behind me. ... I play a little pool upstairs and then decide to go to bed. ... We sit on the porch and feel the cool November breeze blow across our faces. ...

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Is it because we want to escape from our chaotic and complicated surroundings? Or is because we have simply been trained to choose play over work "happy-go-lucky over anxiety? ... The Astrology of the Hippy Movement "The deeper, more subtle, changes that the Hippy Movement generated are still being integrated into our social and political structures as well as our collective psyche. ... In small towns they often stand out like a Peter Max poster in a funeral home. ... Once they discover other hippies their age that they can talk to, they find the courage to face the intolerance of t...

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The town of Jefferson plays a big part in shaping the meaning of Miss Emily. ... "Set on what had once been our most select street."" as demonstrated in this excerpt, her house looks as if it's standing strong and steady. With town gossiping, it is understandable that this reflects the town's value. ... The uses of Faulkner's writing techniques help create in our minds the meaning of Miss Emily. ... Thus, the setting of the story plays a substantial role and important in molding and structuring the meaning and personality of the characters'. ...

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Matt Ross 5/2/2000 Period #5-6 Our Town Essay "Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? ... The theme from the story "Our Town," written by Thorton Wilder, dealt with this topic. ... This is probably the first time that Sam ever looked back on the old town. ... His play, "Our Town," is an excellent example of how we don't look back on our life until it is too late....

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Shakespeare's plays are usually divided into three major categories, these are Three plays which are in the category of comedy are The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Two Gentlemen of Verone. ... In the category of history, three plays are Henry V, Richard II, and Richard III. ... By 1600, at least in towns and cities had some minimal education in reading and writing. ... Shakespeare had a vocabulary of at least twenty-one thousand different words in all his plays. ... Shakespeare gave us a new world in words and insights which would colour, help, deepen, lighten and...

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As kids we have always been taught not to play with our food at the table and not to say some things in front of certain people. ... For example, putting your napkin on your lap, not reaching over people, waiting for everyone to get served before you go to town on your own. ... The invention of technology has had a huge effect on how rude our society really is. Our society has increasingly gotten ruder in many ways. ... Our society as a whole is slowly getting more blatantly rude as time progresses....

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For me weekends begin on a long strip of road in down town Hartford. ... Street racing isn't only found on the fast moving streets of down town Hartford, its all over the country. ... Questions that may be in our minds, but we never ponder too long on them. ... If we did, we wouldn't leave our homes in fear of what may or may not happen today. ... There is just one problem I have with it (and no, my problem is not about it being illegal, although that should play a part in my theme here, it doesn't). ...

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The story starts off on a beautiful summer day in a small town. The author describes the day as very excited but strikes a contrast between the atmosphere of the town and the atmosphere of the people gathered in the square. ... The box is symbolic of our dislike of change; it is old and splintered (337) showing that we cling to what is familiar rather than change and it also symbolizes the traditions of the community. No one in the little town questions the origin of the black box, but accepts it as part of their lives. ... An example of this is when the children are enjoying a break from sch...

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In our everyday lives we hear about drugs manipulating people to the point of nearly insanity. ... After reading Euripides's Bacchae, although not all in the same form, I noticed more than one occasion where manipulation took place throughout the play. ... Being gods, people felt like they had no say in what was happening or, as in the play, couldn't realize it until it was too late. ... The king of the town, Pentheus, feels as though it is his place to go into these mountains to somehow stop this madness. ... Using this play to compare to really helped me emphasize my point. ...

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The community would gather to sing carols and welcome jolly old Santa into town. ... The streets of the town were full of loving families lingering, waiting for the traditional parade to begin. ... The taste of candy cane settled in our mouths, making every breath we took in refreshing and sweet. ... Delight overwhelmed our soft hearts. ... I would gather my rowdy cousins, play games, sing, and talk about what we wanted for Christmas. ...

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So, we are fed our opinion of Emily rather than left to create it. ... We come to think of the narrator as the voice of the town as a whole, and we are made to take his word as our own. ... So we are ultimately transformed into citizens of Jefferson through the narrator and through our common feelings of and for Miss Grierson Instead of focusing on actual changes within the main character, Faulkner chooses to concentrate on a change in the town's as well as the reader's opinions of Emily. Each change of our opinion of Emily's character comes through the revelation of some ne...

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Similarly, four teenagers played out a scene from the TV movie Born Innocent. ... This is more plausible for television has the power, just like almost anything found in our society, to influence how we perceive our world. ... The violence seen on TV can distort our view about our world. ... Secondly, the film must be stored in our memory. ... Television just gives us an extra indirect provocation, and plays into the violence that is already inside of us. ...

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