The Town

Algona High School’s production of “Our Town” by playwright Thornton Wilder shows that life in itself is beautiful and interesting, but that humans take it for granted every day. This is shown by the activities of everyday people living in Grover’s Corner, New Hampshire. This play shows that even the most mundane tasks and daily activities are still valuable and significant in life, and that though you may not see the end coming, it will come, and that this life we have is transient. The first…

In this world, everyone has a time limit; moreover, some have more time than others. It is inevitable to beat death. That is why we are told to live life to the fullest because we never know when our time is up. Our Town is a play in three acts by Thornton Wilder that portrays this way of life. Wilder expertly utilizes the setting and literary devices to show that humans should appreciate the beautiful transient life one is given. The whole play is basically structured in three days. Thornton…

dramedy, yet the directors decided to push the boundaries and make it bigger than a typical romance comedy. This movie was quickly glossed over and thrown to the side by the public but deserves treatment as more than average. Jake Schreier's Paper Towns has created beauty out of hardship with flying colors and should be considered a top movie. The male lead in the film, Quentin (Q), is a mix of flaws and excellent characteristics that make for an unusual protagonist, and his development…

in his play Our Town. Unlike most plays, Wilder strips the scenery, set, and props bare in Our Town to elevate the greatness of the simple and ordinary life while presenting “no curtain. No scenery. The audience, arriving, sees an empty stage in half light” (Wilder act 1). The playwright invites the audience to use their imagination to fill in the lack of detail. He makes the story personal by creating a simple plot, ordinary characters, and using the word “our” in the title Our Town,…

‘Our Town’ Essay In the play ‘Our Town’ written by Thornton Wilder, Wilder gives the reader(s) a message or instead perhaps a life lesson. Wilder’s character Emily Webb says in Act III (Page 108) “ Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?- every, every minute? ” The quote is based on this woman going back and reliving her life but only finding sadness. As said Thornton wrote this as a lesson really to all the living, and here might be why. When a person passes away being able…

In the play Our Town, Thorton Wilder conveys a theme of the importance of companionship. Wilder conveys this theme using elements of the story in its progression. One element Wilder utilizes to develop the importance of companionship is the relationship between two of the characters of the play, Emily Webb and George Gibbs. In Our Town, Wilder frequently develops the importance of companionship using the relationship of the characters Emily Webb and George Gibbs, particularly in the first and…

The main similarity between E. E. Cumming’s poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town” and Thornton Wilder’s play Our Town is the passage of time. An author reviewing the poem in “Poetry for Students” remarks, “Used to tell time long before the invention of clocks and calendars, the seasons, heavenly bodies, and weather are ancient signifiers of time as it passes.” Both the poem and the play use changes in the seasons and weather to express the passing of time. Each text focuses on how time…

The book Paper Towns by John Green begins with young Quentin “Q” Jacobsen and Margo Roth Speigelman who live in the subdivision Jefferson Park which is part of Orlando Florida. They’re neighbors and are also very good friends. The book starts out with them going to the park where they find a dead man who has shot himself. After they leave the park and get back home, the novel moves forward in time to when they are in high school. Q and Margo have grown apart and do not talk much anymore. One…

CRR #7 Observations: In the reading Our Town by Thornton Wilder I felt the feeling of being included in the audience because he gives us the layout at the beginning. Another detail that contributes to this feeling of being included is by having the stage manager speak directly to us. When he starts describing the town and how small it is it reminds me of Porterville and how nothing really happens there or here. I find it sad when the stage manager tells us about all the things Joe is…

Grover's Corners, NH vs. Worland, WY In the play Our Town, a man very much like a narrator tells the audience all about how small Grover's Corners is and how everyone knows who everyone is. It's very interesting, and most people in the town of Worland, Wyoming would agree with what he is saying. Between Grover's Corner and Worland, Wyoming, people would get along fine with one another. The only way that people from Worland wouldn't get along with people Grover's Corner, is all the…