In the play Our Town, the people of Grover's Corners mask their worries and apprehensions about death in their quest for happiness. ... 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 routine of Grover's Corners, one of these being death. ...

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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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Spoon River Anthology Synopsis The book Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters depicts many different aspects of life through poems written by the inhabitants of the town Spoon River. Spoon River is a fictitious town in early America. What is special about this town is that all of the people in it are dead and they tell their stories from the grave. The stories of the town show how you should live your life, all of the way from religion to work habits and to love. ... He states, "That one can be happy only where there are two;/ And that our hearts are drawn to stars/ Which want us no...

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Compare and Contrast Small Town Life to a City Living. I had been blessed with growing up in a small town until the age of just fourteen. ... In my memories, small towns are full of joy, passion and color. ... 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. ...

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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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The fact that the story is about how a death consumes the lives of the entire town as well as the victim, shows that it is concerned with death in life and asks us to evaluate our own views. Not only is the story concerned with death in life on the literary level, but the people of the town feel obliged to honor and offer gifts to a bishop that doesn't even like the town. ... Many in the town describe her as being a woman half in mourning and the narrator is amazed at how she ends up understanding her own life despite how much she was made to die in life(101). Chronicle of a Death Fortold...

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Particularly, we realize and observe the decay of nature while analyzing our own lives. ... This phrases suggests that autumn has set in on the town. ... To march in town gives them a sense of dignity and power. ... As the speaker later "stand[s] on top/of our back steps and breathe the rich air" (43-4) he insights into a brighter tone. He makes it seem better because he suggests that he is not alone when he says they are on "our back steps"(44). ...

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So many things come into play when it comes to social class such as History perhaps of the town that he lives in or maybe the race of him and the people that surround his family. When you look at examples of Social Class and despair such as a poor town in a city, it's a safe assumption to believe Race may also play a role in the way these people live their lives. It is beyond naive to think Race no longer effects society and the way our world works. ... It is the small glimpses that keep us striving and help us to drag our tired bodies out of the comfort of our beds in the morning. ......

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Dunstan's home changes from a peaceful town of Deptford into the violent and killing fields of World War two. "It was called Deptford and lay on the Thames River about fifteen miles east of Pittstown, our county town and nearest big place. ... "This was fighting we lived in trenches, in dung-coloured mud into which dung and every filthiness had been trodden, in our dung-coloured uniforms; we were cold, badly fed, and lousy." ... Joel Surgeoner, the atheastic tramp who had an intimat encounter with Mary Dempster at the town's "pit" changed his way of life and became a servant of Go...

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He said, "our life is a war and I have been a traitor all my born days, a spy in the enemy country... The dream happened after he went through a traumatic situation with some of the most respected people in town. ... The narrator failed to realize how the people in town really thought about him. It did not matter to the town that he was graduating at the top of his class, all they saw was the color of his skin. ... The town used him, as a token but had no respect for him as a person. ...

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Jamestown was a town in May of 1607. ... Early Jamestown was not a successful town even they had survived many tragedies, they still had other things that made it non successful. ... It matters today because, we need to be able to know where our states have come from and how they became to be....

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The condemnation of innocence sheds light on the meaninglessness, irrationality, and inexplicableness of our existence, and until we witness something this horrendous we cannot fully conceive of what our world truly is. ... When he later discusses his plague with Rieux it indicates that there is a better understanding after all that the town has experienced. ... Even if it appears futile and pointless, we have to make something out of our lives. ... In the first stage of the outbreak of the plague the common people of the town know nothing about it. ... Some want out of town with no concern...

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The water was cold on our legs and tired feet. ... All the teens were really nice and we got to hang out the rest of our stay there. ... Time was going by so fast that before we all knew it our stay was coming to and end. ... This trip was planned also as a good bye for our whole class. ... That there is a lot more beyond our towns, there is a whole world out there to discover. ...

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This is so painfully symbolic of our relationship with our caretaker, Mother Earth. ... As the transition from the second part of the story into the third part occurs, the narrator describes her last journey into town to trade her meager goods for food. ... The butcher that she visits in town does not understand her compulsion to feed those that hurt her, and cannot see her place in the scheme of things. ... Unfortunately, when the weight of our burdens finally does our Mother Earth in, we won't be able to mourn her and put her to rest with ceremony. Our own circle of life is far too depe...

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I shrugged off the idea of moving, and went about with my daily life not wasting any of my remaining time in my home town. As the months quickly passed by and moving day approached at an ever so rapid pace, I began to really grasp how much I would miss the town I had lived in for so long. ... My dad had built my travel team from the ground up, holding our first try outs when we were 9 years old to structuring one of the elite teams in all of New Jersey by the time we were 12. ... When we arrived in Virginia Beach it was about 3 o"clock in the morning, but my dad insisted we drive by the hou...

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Our entire life - production, politics, and education - rests on quantity, on numbers. ... (Page 1 - 10) In fact, there is no different between Toronto and the reserve, except everything in Toronto is much more than in small towns, under many people's visions. ...

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In today's society, people are often remembered for their accomplishments. Whether it is winning a basketball game with a last second shot, or leading a country or nation. Some of us worry about how we are perceived in the public eye. Others live life to the fullest, caring only to do what makes ...

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Throughout this novel, technology is depicted as the ominous messenger of our common fate, an increasing sense of dread over loss of control of our lives and the approach of inevitable death in spite of the empty promises of technology. ... White Noise is a book obsessed with death at the hands of our own technology. ... Delillo, however, exposes how absurd what we consider to be "normal" really is in our technology-dependent society and our compulsive desire to have machines save us from ourselves and reaffirm our personal identities: In the morning I walked to the bank. ... One day an ind...

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"How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!... We felt that they were not the tyrants to rule our lot according to their caprice, but the agents and creators of all the many delights which we enjoyed. ... "Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. They know our infantile dispositions, which, however, they may be afterwards modified, are never eradicated; and the...

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There are many moments in our life that that change the complete course of our life. ... Although, I had stayed out of town since my collage, this homesickness was the worst time of my life. While leafing through the book, I started remembering our close-knit family, where my parents disciplined us firmly but in a loving manner. ... After the passing of half semester, our class teacher asked us to make a presentation regarding our future goals in life. He further indicated that this was a very important part of our grades. ...

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As the old woman heads back to her farm, after making her final journey into town, the dogs that depend on her scraps follow her. ... How strange that we gain insights into our own lives while reviewing the lives of others. The cycle of life and death is dependant on our cooperation, or lack thereof. We decide what we do with our lives. We need to know what mark we want to leave behind and try to live our life to that ideal. ...

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This gives the persona of an inner discovery that all change will have consequences, and that the consequences of our materialistic society will ultimately be destruction of our world and ourselves. The understanding of the world we live in and ourselves is much dependent on how we chose to see the way our materialistic society as either, a good or bad thing, Gray doesn't see it as a good thing as he has evidently portrayed it through flames on dangling wire, however he doesn't show the reader what sort of effect it has on 1 person or ourselves which Meatworks does. ... This guilt ...

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Our parents, especially at a young age, are the most influential persons in our lives, so in order to understand Paul, one must look at his mother and father. ... All that readers know about him is that he works in town, and his good prospects never materialize. ... If readers of this story can see that it parallels unfortunate children in our American society, they should also recognize another of its underlying themes. ... Perhaps Paul, with his obvious psychological problems, is better out of this life, but as a society, part of our contentment ought to come from collectively raising happy ...

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These ideas are surround mortality, hope, and the power of words, are important to Zusak's novel and to society due to the way they connect with each other to help us understand character's lives and reflect on our own. ... In town bombings the sky has been described as blood red,  plane crashes explained to be black but for the death of Jews in Germany that summer, it was so severe that death has no color to associate with it. ... This expresses to the reader the mass scale of humans dying under orders of Hitler, reminding us that this isnt just a novel, this happened in our socie...

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We are unable to grow toward greater understanding of our true nature unless we take time to examine and reflect upon our life. ... People began to look down on Ivan rather than to sympathize for him, such as his wife, who didn't care that he is dying but rather troubled by the inconvenience his suffering was putting her through and the financial bind his death puts her in; she is a symbol of the indifferent people of his town. ... I believe reflection is something very important in our lives and I think this should be a priority in the life of every human being. All of us should exa...

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