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All My Sons Research Paper

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On September 1, 1939 Hitler invaded Poland which caused one of the worst wars ever known to man. This war is known as World War Two. Many men who were born in 1923 in the Soviet Union, lost their lives during the battle. Since most of the men left to fight, the women stayed behind and took care of the factories and their homes. In a play called All My Sons by Arthur Miller, he wrote about the struggles of a family who was greatly affected by the war.

One key member of the Keller family was Joe Keller. Joe and his business partner Steve Deever owned a factory that sold cylinder heads to the military during the war. Unfortunately, not all of these cylinders were flawless, and several faulty ones were sold to the military. As a result of the flawed cylinders, Twenty One Pilots lost their lives. …show more content…

When Annie’s brother George comes to the Keller’s house he brings trouble. George has always believed that Mr. Keller was aware of the cracked cylinder heads and that he was the one who told Mr. Deever to fix them up and ship them off. When George was asking Mr. and Mrs. Keller how they have been, Mrs. Keller made a mistake. Mrs. Keller accidentally said, “He hasn’t been laid up in fifteen years…” (Miller 55). Since, the war just ended a couple of years ago, that would mean Mr. Keller was never sick. George wishes he could reopen the case and convict Mr. Keller of his wrong doing, but he can not prove the phone call that happen between Mr. Keller and Mr. Deever. Chris was so upset by the news, he got in his car and drove off. At the end of the play Chris was going to take Mr. Keller to jail, but before he had the chance to something horrifying happened. As Chris waited for Mr. Keller to get his jacket from the house, they heard a noise. Mr. Keller could no longer live with the guilt of killing Twenty One Pilots and having the death of his son on his hands. He committed suicide, on a warm Sunday in

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