Everyone cares about you, yet no one cares about you at all. This statement is profound and repetitively felt in the story, “anyone lives in a pretty how town.” There are people all around that have feelings and yet none of them care about anyone but themselves. The obvious theme is lack of emotion towards your own people.The above statement is a glimpse of the attitudes and day to day flawed ways of inhabitants of pretty how towns and all other places in the world. There will be multiple examples of the lack of emotion played out through this story. Beginning with children experiences, adults and marriage, and ending with the death of an individual. Children are the most amazing individuals on earth, they can love unconditionally,
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They married their partners and routinely went along with their lives only having their own selfish goals in mind, with lack of worry for anyone else. Thus dooming the generation to come to have the same outcome as this one. A quote of this from the story, “someones married their everyones laughed their cryings and did their dance (Cummings 556).” This quote shows a dull outlook on marriage and it downplays how special and how amazing it should be. Growing old and weary the adults became grandparents and the elderly folk which no one had the time for. “One day anyone died I guess busy folk buried them side by side (Cummings 556).” Here again it shows how even in death that no one cares and they're already focused on getting back to their lives. Death is saddening no matter the person and this story shows the people as emotionless robots. This story was written to identify a problem in the present day society. The lack of emotion, feelings, and compassion to one another and as a whole race is tragic. This story has a powerful message that is very alive in lives today. There is a chance that even though growing up surrounded by all of these repulsive traits a child could grow to be a loving adult no matter his upcoming and he could die a loved
They married their partners and routinely went along with their lives only having their own selfish goals in mind, with lack of worry for anyone else. Thus dooming the generation to come to have the same outcome as this one. A quote of this from the story, “someones married their everyones laughed their cryings and did their dance (Cummings 556).” This quote shows a dull outlook on marriage and it downplays how special and how amazing it should be. Growing old and weary the adults became grandparents and the elderly folk which no one had the time for. “One day anyone died I guess busy folk buried them side by side (Cummings 556).” Here again it shows how even in death that no one cares and they're already focused on getting back to their lives. Death is saddening no matter the person and this story shows the people as emotionless robots. This story was written to identify a problem in the present day society. The lack of emotion, feelings, and compassion to one another and as a whole race is tragic. This story has a powerful message that is very alive in lives today. There is a chance that even though growing up surrounded by all of these repulsive traits a child could grow to be a loving adult no matter his upcoming and he could die a loved