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In both live and filmed performances, the performances will often differ in small ways from the plays. Whether this is due to the actors, the set, or to a change in the story itself, these often small differences can have great impacts on the finished product. In Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” play and “Our Town” performance there are various differences and similarities between the two. These come out in how well the performance follows the play, in the actors interpretations of their parts, in the scripts, props, and in the setting. The “Our Town” performance viewed in class was one of the more faithful of performances in regards to following the play.

A family indistinguishable from other families in the nation until the other families were told by their government to fear them. The house is a physical representation of what the family went through. The family was mistreated and sent to the camp simply because they were different and the house was mistreated and broken because of who owned it. The words written on the walks could symbolize how being called certain names had a jarring and lasting effect in the children. Just as the words are a symbol so is the broken and dirty glass. The family no longer sees themselves as something beautiful and good. Now they see themselves as something dirty and bad. They no longer look at themselves because they are ashamed at their own genetics. While the house doesn’t have much damage on the outside, it reflects the people that live inside of it. They hide their true emotions and show the world their bravest face, but on the inside strange people they so not know have trampled and ruined

As sentimental tone becomes evident frequently through the story, the author uses determination to display the struggles and growth that the author experiences. One of the major quotes that shows determination through a sentimental tone can be displayed as the hotel burning down where the Walls currently lived. Walls stated, “I wonder if the fire had been out to get me. I wonder if all fire was related . . . I didn’t have the answers to those questions, but what I did know was that I lived that at any moment could erupt . . . It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes” (Walls 34). This excerpt explains that the author and her family struggle through life to find a decent home--that they can afford. Jeannette spills her emotions through this quote; her struggles become strengths, as she narrates her childhood. The author displays the theme of struggle and the sentimental tone when “. . . the whole family stretched out on the benches and the floor of the depot and read, with the dictionary in the middle of the room so [the] kids could look up words [they] didn't know. . .” (Walls 56). This quote really tears at the reader’s heart strings, as the family copes with their living situations. Jeannette exceeds with describing the story; adding imagery to the situation creates the sentimental tone. The idea of struggle and growth portrays the main point of the overall

All households studied in Who Has Seen the Wind and "To Set Our House in Order," include minor characters who have power, demonstrate acceptable behaviour yet fail to provide proper nurturing - all acting as major influences on the order with which the main characters conduct their lives.

At first, the house just sits there, resisting everything that wants it gone. Representing Carl and how he does not want to budge, how he’s determined to accomplish what Ellie always dreamed of , just like a house’s job is to stand

In the both Jinch Malrex and The Farm Show the plays are based on real life, people and situations. In The Farm Show the everyday life as a farmer is being represented, the information is being provided by Mile’s show The Drawer Boy where Mile’s visited a farm ran by Morgan and Angus and learns what it is like in real life to live of a farm. In Jinch Malrex the play represents the real life as trouble youth, in the play the authors create character’s somewhat based on their lives for example Casandra London created a character whose mother’s wasn’t around based on her life of not having her father around. In all three of the plays the actors are creating stories by drawing on their own life, knowledge and

type of artist to hesitate the reality of showing what goes on in his land. From paintings of drug use to

Our Town is different from most plays. It starts with barely any scenery, forcing the viewer to use their imagination. In the beginning the set manager comes on stage and describes the scene while also making sure that everything is under control; he plays an oversoul or God-like figure. Act I describes birth. The play commences before dawn and the first call Dr. Gibbs receives that morning is for the

Hester was tall, with dark and abundant hair. She had deep black eyes. She had a beautiful face. She was lady-like, and characterized by a certain state of

Discuss how Shakespeare uses language and dramatic techniques for character development in Act 2 Scene 2 of Measure for Measure.

congratulations! my school is going pretty well. Unfortunately, I have been busy with school and work as well, but the more I work and the more I go to school, my English is getting better and as I said before I am taking an English class. it makes my English better. end of the semester, I am going to take assignment tests in order to pass on English 120. I think it will help me

of the fact that she is kept in the house. One specific characteristic of the house that symbolizes

The physical aspects of a house can speak volumes to the traditional and contemporary ideas of home, with its characteristics acting as symbols or metaphors. Door’s house in Neverwhere and the Harlech Shadow House in Black Mirror act as metaphors on opposite ends of the spectrum; Door’s house is a multi-scalar amalgamation of rooms put together by her grandfather and father while the Harlech Shadow House is a typical gothic mansion. Combined with each character’s experiences and memories provoked from being inside their respective houses, it becomes evident as to what each house represents more specifically: While the Harlech Shadow House’s traditional framework represents the idea that home is confined to a fixed location and can lead one

The house’s efficiency and helpfulness seem to make it cold and emotionless and the fact that it lives on after its inhabitants have passed just proves how the house is only a machine that is unable to love, this house will always be a house but it will never be a home.

Briefly indicate what that theme is and then go on to show how the playwright