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| “Now there are somethings we all know, but we don’t take’m out and look at’m very often. We all know that something is eternal. And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t even the stars…Everyone knows in their bones…how people are always using hold of it…something way down deep."page number 87 |
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from: The stage manager To: The crowd Significance: Nothing is eternal when we die everything in our lives wont even matter. Maybe some memories but nothing stays around for ever. |
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| “The dead don’t stay interested in us living for very long. Gradually, gradually, they lose hold of the earth…and the ambitions they had…and the pleasures they had…and the things they suffered…and the people they loved” page number 88 |
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From: stage manager To: crowd, audience Significance: The dead move along they are all. The are being sepretaed from life. they forget all their possesions and they dont car eabout all the things that concerned them in their past life. They even occasionally forget the people they loved |
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| “…All those terrible things grow pale around here…” page number |
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from: to: significance: The bad and good go away when you're dead its bringing up again that its over. |
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| “I’d forgotten all about that. My, wasn’t life awful---and wonderful.” page number 92 |
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From:Mrs. Soames To:Ms. Gibbs,Emily, and Simon Stimson Significance: That this is about birth that yes, it's probably the most painful thing anyone dcould go through but its all worth it when you get to hold the child that you got all worked up for in your hands fresh and new and beautiful |
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| “They’re sort of shut up in little boxes, aren’t they?” page number:96 |
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From: Emily To: Mrs. Gibbs Significance: WE are shut in little boxes we are all limiting our power and we dont allow ourselves to realize how great life is. |
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| “Live people don’t understand do they?” page:96 |
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From: Emily To: Mrs. Gibbs Significance:WE dont understand the world is great amazing and all we have. |
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“But mother Gibbs, how can I ever forget that life? It’s all I know. It’s all I had.” page number: 99 |
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To: Mrs. Gibbs From: Emily Significance: Life is all that we have after we are nothing It's all we literally lifve for and when its over...its over |
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| “Oh, earth, you’re too wonderful for anybody to realize you.” page number:108 |
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To: "Earth" From:Emily Significance: You dont know what you've got until its gone |
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“To spend and waste time as though you had a million years….Now you know—that’s the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness.” page number:109 |
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To:Emily From:Simon Stimson Significance: The truth of life. She wanted to go back only to realize life stinks. She wanted to go back to a place that she wasted time with. |
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"When you’ve been here longer you’ll understand.” page:99 |
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From:Mrs. Gibbs To:Emily Significance: She just made it here and expects everything to be nifty and dandy and she is stupidly wrong!...i meant to say that she is looking for things she cant have |
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