Pretty How Town

Somewhere there is a town where everyone’s best friend is their next-door neighbor. Everyone here would always stop and talk about what is going on, no matter who you are. Such community does exist, but only in the small town of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire. The value and importance of community is shown in Our Town by Thornton Wilder using repetition and pattern of events. A few important times this is shown is the play is when Emily and George’s disagreements with each other help grow their relationship. When Howie Newsome greets neighbors while he delivers the milk across town is a significant part of Grover’s Corners’ community. Emily’s death is also meaningful to the community’s connections to each other.

No matter where one goes on this dismal chunk of rock, one will probably encounter an outsider. In high school lunchrooms there is always at least one poor, sad teenager who has the unlucky seat next to the trash can. In parks and school playgrounds there is always that one melancholy kid that provides a stark contrast from the joyful shouts and screams coming from the other playing children. The experience of being an outsider is an inescapable universal condition that can be caused through social class, appearance, or other factors.

The poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town” by E.E. Cummings talks about the cycle of life and the importance of structure, symbolism, and language of the poem. For instance, the poem has nine stanzas, which has a rhyming pattern of AABC. The rhythm of the poem is significant for it supports one of themes, the cycle of life. Cumming uses season to explain the poem's progress. “spring summer autumn winter” (3) and “sun moon stars rain” (8) symbolizes time passing, which represents life passing. In the poem, as the seasons and skies rotate, life continues along with them. In addition, the uses of the words “snow” (22), “buried” (27), “was by was” (28), and “day by day” (29) leading to death. Towards the end of the poem, the depression of

F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of great Gatsby and E.E Cummings, author of  “Anyone lived in a pretty how town” convey similar themes of sadness, carelessness, and love. Mostly love & sadness. Both selections reveal that not everyone is there for you as they say they are through the use of imagery, symbolism, and diction.

with Peris. Peris found out about Tally’s issues with not being able to turn pretty. Everyone in New Pretty Town was waiting for Tally, but she never showed up. Peris asked her about the people who escaped with Shay, even though Tally wasn’t supposed to say anything she told Peris. After Tally told Peris everything he told her that they wanted him to tattle on her and tell Dr. Cable what he knew. Tally was really upset and reminded him that they had a promise with each other. After Peris left Tally felt really bad that she told Peris, Shay’s secrete. The next day Dr. Cable sent a car to pick up Tally again. This time Tally was going to answer all the questions Dr. Cable asked her. Tally starts to tell her about Shay wanting to run away with David to a place called the smoke.

In the poems, Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town, and We Wear the Mask, the authors express how people mask their true feelings to divide the fact of being a burden. Which leads to “Women and men (both little and small) cared for anyone not at all” (Cummings 5-6).

Edward Estlin Cummings, better known as E.E. Cummings, was a 20th century modernist poet who experimented with form punctuation, spelling and syntax. He often wrote in sonnet and fee verse about nature, death, love and human experience. In his poems “anyone lived in a pretty how town” and “old age sticks” Cummings exemplifies imagery through unusual syntax and typography to convert the themes of his poems. The poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town” is a love story about two people who were very much different from the rest of the town.

The image of the outside of this houses may not be pleasant to us but the people there decided to live in them. They have had the opportunity to change the appearance of this depressing houses but they by choice decide to live this way. To them there is beauty in their houses even if there is none to others. The towns from Pittsburgh to Greensburg have a horrible hellish appearance to the author. The author describes the town to have no beauty in it. She says that to people who pass by that town think of the town as hideous and ugly but the people who actually live there love it. The author is trying to say how it all has to do with perspective of the people and what they are used to.

“Anyone lived in a pretty how town,” a ballad by E. E. Cummings, was first published in 1940. Cummings is commonly associated with his peculiar ideas about punctuation; he lacked punctuation and structure frequently. Being one of the best known poets of all time, Cummings creates a language that is relatable to just about anyone. I think this poem is about a small community where everyone is concerned with his or her own actions, never caring about neighbors or other members of the community.

Life in society becomes quite busy as individuals age. From rushing to work or school, there is rarely time for anything else. Therefore, because of the busy lives individuals have, it causes them to be incapable of focussing on the little things in life. E.E. Cummings, reveals this as the cycle of life in “anyone lived in a pretty how town”. Cummings use of dictation creates an abnormal setting of life, which reflects reality. Not only, does Cummings create such a setting but also uses pronouns, as a dual meaning, to suggest people whose names were unknown. In the poem, no one is a man and anyone is a woman. These pronouns represent these two individuals because it exhibits that no one actually knows them because they are too busy with their

Cummings, he used a metaphor and symbolism as a form of figurative language. In the first stanza, Cummings writes, “anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down).” This quote explains that anyone, an abstract idea of a singular person, lives in a pretty how town. The word how is used to depict the how’s of life. The bells in this quote can symbolize many things such as a celebration, but after reading on further, one can determine that it symbolizes a funeral.

These students are the Nobodies. They blend in and want to stay away from the spotlight, which the Nerds and No-Shows are both shone in. Nobodies are ordinary students, who get average to decent grades and fill up the void that separates the Nerds from the No-Shows. When teachers praise a Nobody for a good grade in front of the class, everyone asks, “who?”, because they have no idea that student exists. Moreover, Nobodies have average looking appearances, average athleticism and average grades. There is not much to say about them and there is not much that they will

“All men are like grass, and their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord stands forever” (I Peter 1:24-25). Our Town, an intriguing drama by Thornton Wilder, tells of a quaint town, christened Grover’s Corners, in eighteenth century New Hampshire, commemorating the lives of those in the town, . The prevalent theme about the brevity of human life shows itself through the remembrance of the characters, both historically and personally, and the idea that one should savor life.

The protagonist, Meursault, is inexplicably numb to the world around him. In this argument, I present evidence as to why Meursault can be classified as a stranger. His indifference to routine and habits,

One reason why social invisibility is imposed by others is the middle child syndrome. One example was when Ansty’s mom was talking about their future and saying that Frankie is so smart and also Christina. But she never talked about Ansty’s future and used the word “Wherever” to describe his life. “‘You go off to college, or wherever,and then I get to be a butterflies.’ She was looking at me when she said ‘wherever’...When it comes to frankie, Mom always talks about college like it’s a given, but not me. I looked at Frankie snoring away. Sometimes I think God made an inventory error and gave Frankie some brain cells that were supposed to go to me. He could sleep away the afternoon and still pull straight A’s ,but me? There were only two A’s