Our Town

Especially in America, where we have been sending immigrants through a rigorous test in order to enter. The real question is if this creates the best outcome for all. This plan will in fact create the best situation for all, by creating self-sufficient towns that will require jobs and residents. It will create jobs, abolish poverty and welfare, and create economic competition. Author Georges Vernez , in his essay on immigration, states "Immigrants have contributed to the nation 's economic…

My home town of Bensenville is not very large with around 18,000 residents. Currently it is one of those small US towns that is going through slow but constant disintegration. Younger people are moving out because it’s difficult to find employment close by and because the expansion of the O’Hare airport took a big part of the livable area, removing homes and businesses to create new roads and add two new runways. Bensenville has spent millions of dollars to fight the expansion but due to some…

surrounding salt mines, and began the excavation of the salt dome underneath the town of Grand Saline. With the newly discovered abundance of salt there were plenty of jobs to go around as The Great Depression began to settle upon the market. By the year 1945 there were 950 people employed by the mine in Grand Saline, and that number doesn’t include the transportation jobs that were created by the mine either. The added income in town from the jobs created allowed for the local prices to…

Thornton Wilder is one of the most inventive playwrights of all time. His creative vision and exceptional imagination led to such classics as his most notable drama, Our Town. Throughout this drama, Wilder’s unusual use of the Stage Manager allows Him to become one of the most famous roles of all time. Although his identity is unknown and he appears to be insignificant to the plot of the story, the Stage Manager’s role is the most important in the entire play (Galens 226). It may seem like he…

lack of healthcare in rural towns is an issue that I can relate with. I decided to write about this issue because a lot of people are unaware about it. This is an issue that is growing in America because cities are growing and towns are getting smaller. So they can’t afford to keep hospitals and clinics anymore. That means people in smaller towns have to travel to the bigger cities to get their healthcare. With the more people aware about the lack of healthcare in rural towns in the United…

Thornton Wilder, a playwright, was very influential on the world of theater. He found an artistic way to introduce the public to different ideas about theater which were not really portrayed in the plays of that time. In Our Town, the unique role of the Stage Manager displays and exhibits these ideas. Thornton Wilder’s use of the Stage Manager is one of his great concepts. Physically, there are no specific requirements of this part. He always has a hat on and may smoke a pipe (Austell 95). He…

days, where towns were very small and everyone knew each other. Food was scarce and people did anything, even if it involved death and violence, just to live. Towns were poor and old fashioned. Families and family names were all known by one another. Just as how the people in the “The Hunger Games” dressed, I imagine the people in “The Lottery” to have the same attire. Old, ragged and formal dresses for women and suits for men. Weather was described as hot summer days in both towns. People…

little slum-bred guys that got knocked over on their first caper and never had a break since. That’s what I’d like. You and me both lived too long to think I’m likely to see it happen. Not in this town, not in any town half this size, in any part of this wide, green and beautiful U.S.A. We just don’t run our country that way” (Chandler, 135). Gangs held a strong hold over America in the 1940s. There was corruption everywhere, and those with money and those like Eddie Mars –upper level…

I grew up in the small town of Logan, Ohio. It was where most people lived in the country, people were always working outside, and everyone got along. Most people were of the same culture so we related to each other pretty well. Growing up in the country has impacted my life and made me the person I am today. Even though Logan was a small town, it has a lot of history to it. As of right now, it is like a ghost town. All the big buildings are empty and we have very few restaurants. Logan is…

Thornton Wilder wrote the play “Our Town” with a philosophical approach. He does this in order to convey his message to the audience. This approach allows for the central theme of the play to be revealed. Wilder’s philosophical approach reveals the purpose of the play that is to value your time when you are alive and appreciate everything that you have. This method teaches the audience a moral lesson throughout the play. Though critics may argue that a philosophical approach is not the way…