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OUR TOWN JOURNAL ENTRY Candus Jefferson Bethel University Our Town, by Thornton Wilder (first staged in 1938), has proven to be one of the most popular and enduring American plays ever performed (VORK, 2017). For the first time in 1938, the play was performed for a live audience in Princeton, New Jersey (Weinbloom, 2006). The audience did not agree with Thornton Wilders vision for the play. He along with his play was criticized. Many individuals back then thought the play was a complete waste

“It’s a paper town. I mean look at it Q: look at all those cul-de-sacs, those streets that turn in on themselves, all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm” (Green 57). This quote is from The #1 New York Times Bestseller, Paper Towns, written by John Green. In part one of this book, Quentin Jacobsen, the main character, lives in a subdivision in Florida named Jefferson Park. Quentin’s miracle in life was his

The play Our Town is a great American play that successfully portrays daily life, love and marriage, and death and eternity in a small town named Grover’s Corners. The play contains three acts, each with their own defining theme. Wilder incorporates all the minor themes into one grand and wholesome moral of the story. Although Our Town is composed of multiple themes, there is only one theme that completely defines the entirety of the play. The primary theme of Our Town, written by Thornton Wilder

settings throughout the play Our Town not only relates to the Stage Manager, but he is also the one that introduces them in every act. For example, the setting in the very beginning of the play sets the tone of the book and allows the reader to get an understanding that the Stage Manager is not only in the play, but sees it from the audience’s perspective as well. The Stage Manager says, “This play is called ‘Our Town.’ It was written by Thornton Wilder … The name of the town is Grover’s Corners, New

Paper Towns written by award winning author John Green, is a captivating, intriguing, innovative, coming of age novel that had me hooked from the first paragraph. The novel follows the story of a teen boy - Quentin Jacobsen and his overwhelming obsession and love towards his ex childhood best friend Margo Roth Spiegelman. After spending a night together for the first time in nearly 11 years, Quentin then goes on to discover important life lessons after Margo simply disappears without a trace, leaving

Paper towns by John Green is a book about a boy named Quentin Jacobson who is in love with his childhood friend, Margo Roth Spiegelman. As children Margo and Quentin took a trip to the park one afternoon, but when they arrived there was a dead body. Margo believed that it was only because all of his strings had just broken. One late night, a month away from graduation, Margo showed up at Quentin's window asking for help on a task of 11 different things. Quentin agrees to help Margo, she tells Quentin

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Our Town, created by Thornton Wilder, offer up a light into the ordinariness of life as seen through the eyes of a small population of citizens. The play is broken down into three acts displaying the stages of life from the perspective of the two primary characters George and Emily. Our Town, displays George as the archetypal American young boy. George has all the characteristics of such, he is innocent, kind, and sensitive. He is a good son, and a good friend he has goals and aspirations. He is

Growing Up Pages 71-73 In Thornton Wilder’s play, Our Town, themes such as the importance of time, growing up, and a birth to death life cycle are prevalent in almost every conversation had among the stage manager and the main characters. One example is when Emily and George go to get ice cream sodas as a way for George to thank Emily for calling him out on his behavior. During this time, George and Emily end up confessing their feelings for each other which takes a large step into their next stage

Our Town is about the daily lives of two families living in Groves Corner, New Hampshire. It follows the budding relationship between Emily Webb and George Gibbs. We see the family go through a daily ritual just as other American families. The mother cooks breakfast, children go to school, and father goes to work. The paperboy delivers the newspaper and the milkman delivers milk. Relationships develop overtime and death occurs. Our Town shows the three stages of life consisting of birth, love and