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Our Town
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English
7th Grade
02/19/2009

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Page 47

"All that can happen in a tousand days."

Definition
  • Stage manager said it.
  • To the audience.
  • It means that every single day in those three years is normal, but it all equals a life time.
Term

Page 49

"They brought up two children apeice washed, cleaned the house, -and never a nervous breakdown."

Definition
  • Stage manager said it.
  • To the audience.
  • This showed that these two ladies had a thousand days of work for two children and a husband, but they kept their cool the whole time.
  • They were ordinary.
Term

Page 49

"Youv'e got to love life to have life, and youv'e got to have a life to love live ... It's what they call a vicious circle."

Definition
  • Stage Manager said it.
  • To the audience.
  • It means that you have to live life to the fullest to actually love it, and you have to love it to live life to the fullest.
  • See Lucinda Matlocks poem.
Term

Page 57

"Millions have folla'd it, George, and you don't want to be the first to fly out of custom."

Definition
  • Mrs. Webb said it
  • To George
  • When George came to see Emily before the wedding
  • Millions of people have gotten married but it is still a special day
  • custom

 

Term

Page 66

"I always expect a man to be perfect and I think that he should be."

Definition
  • Emily
  • To George
  • at the ice cream shop
  • Emily thinks that all men are perfect when they aren't everyone makes mistakes.
  • perfect
Term

Page 69

"The day wouldn't come when I wouldn't want to know everything that's happened here. I know thats's true, Emily."

Definition
  • George
  • To Emily
  • at the ice cream shop
  • It shows that like even compared to the whole state of New Hampshire George would still like Grovers Coners
Term

Page 65

"I...I'm glad you said it, Emily. I never thought that such a thing was happening to me. I geuss it's hard for a fella not to have faults creep into his characters."

Definition
  • George
  • To Emily
  • on the way to the ice cream shop
  • It showed that George can take what ever comes at him.
  • fault
Term

Page 76

"The whole world's wrong, that's what the matter is."

Definition
  • Mrs. Webb
  • To the audience
  • Walking to the pews before the wedding
  • She was making a big deal about a wedding in Grovers Coners and she blamed the world.
  • World
Term

Page 82

"M...marries N...millions of them."

Definition
  • Stage Manager
  • To audience
  • Right before the wedding
  • It meant that a ton of people have gotten married
  • variables
Term

Page 82

" I always say: happiness, that's the great thing! The important thing is to be happy."

Definition
  • Mrs. Soames
  • To people in the wedding
  • During the wedding
  • She was saying that Quality is way better Quantity. Happiness is the key.
  • happiness

 

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