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| "The morning star alwasy gets wonderful bright the minute before it has to go, - doesn't it?" - Pg. 4 |
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| The stage manager is drawing our attention to the simple pleasures in life, like the warm sunshine and pretty sunsets that we wouldn't normally acknowlage. |
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| "There's some scenery for those who think they have to have scenery." - Pg. 5 |
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| The stage manager says this to signify that while you don't NEED scenery, it's nice to look at and have and some people like it. |
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| "Nobody very remarkable ever come out of it, s'far as we know." - Pg. 6 |
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The stage manager is saying that the town isn't super special but it's still a good ordinary town. |
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| "Goin' to be a great engineer, Joe was. But the war broke out and he died in France. -All that education for nothing." -Pg. 9 |
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The stage manager says this but really Joe's education wasn't for nothing. His education affected many people in his lifetime and had he not gone to school many lives may have turned out differently. |
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| "Very ordinary town, if you ask me. Little better behaved then most. Probably a lot duller." |
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| Mr. Webb describes Grover's Corners as a in-the-middle sort of town, not too rich, not too poor, not really special. Just an ordinary, plain town that could be almost any town! |
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| "You're pretty enough for all normal purposes." -Pg. 32 |
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| Mrs. Gibbs says this because while she doesn't want to hurt Emily's feelings, she also doesn't her to get a big head. |
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"I've decided to raise your spending money 25 cents a week. Not, of course, for chopping wood for your mother, because that's a present you give her, but because you're getting older- and i imagine there are lots of things you must find to do with it." -Pg. 38 |
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Dr. Gibbs also is trying to put George in his place so he'll help out and do his chores but then rewards him with a larger allowance. |
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| "The United States of America, Continent of North America; Western Hemisphere; the Earth; the Solar System; the Universe; the Mind of God" -Pg.46 |
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Rebecca reads this from a letter and it shows us just how tiny we really are in the big picture. Every human is just a tiny speck on the whole of the Mind of God but each little person is STILL IMPORTANT! |
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| "Naturally I didn't want to say a word about ti in front of those others, but now we're alone- really, it's the worst scandal that ever was in this town!" -Pg. 39 |
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| Mrs. Soames wants to gossip but Mrs. Gibbs knows it's rude and shuts her down quickly by saying she has to go home. |
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| "Mortality and birth rates: constant" -Pg.23 |
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This quote, said by Professor Willard, shows that the world is constantly changing and no matter how hard we may try to keep things the same they will always be changing. |
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