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Our Town Quotes
Act 2
10
English
7th Grade
02/19/2009

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Page 47

"Yes the sun's come up over a thousand times."

Definition
  •  Stage Manager says to audience
  • Time has gone by
  • There's been over 1,000 of act 1s
  • Same ordinary day, some better than others, some worse than others
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Page 49

 "You've got to love life to have a life, and you've got to have life to love life."

Definition
  • Stage Manager to audience
  • If you love life you will have a life
  • First you've got to have a life
  • Telling the audience that the important thing is to love life, everything about it 
Term

Page 65

"I don't like the whole cahnge that's come over you in the last year."

Definition
  • Emily to George
  • Emily finally gets the courage to tell George how she feels
  • Turning point in their relationship
  • George is happy she says this, wants to change 
Term

Page 66

"I've always expected a man to be perfect and I think he should be."

Definition
  • Emily to George
  • Emily tells George what she thinks
  • From her point of view she feels that way
  • Thinks that all men should be perfect and that women don't need to be
Term

Page 66

"Oh...I don't think it's possible to be perfect, Emily."

Definition
  • George to Emily
  • George saying how he feels
  • He has that right point of view
  • No one can be perfect
  • George finally tells Emily how he really feels
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Page 69

 "Grover's Corner isn't a very important place when you think of all New Hampshire."

Definition
  • Emily to George
  • Emily is trying to get the point across that she's not going to seem very important to him when he leaves
  • Emily thinks that she will be forgotten if George goes off to college
Term

Page 75

"Every child born inot the world is nature's attmept to make a perfect human being."

Definition
  • Stage Manager to audience
  • Every child is natures attempt at a perfect human being
  • As hard as we try, no one can be perfect
  • Everybody makes mistakes and it's natural not to be perfect
Term

Page 82

"The cottage, the go-cart, the Sunday-afternoon drives in the Ford, the first rheumatism, the grandchildren, the second rheumatism, the death bed, the reading of the will."

Definition
  • Stage Manager to audience
  • Telling the proccess of getting married until death
  • The list of things have good things and bad things
  • Just like life, there's some good things and bad things
  • We have to push through the bad times and celebrate the good
Term

Page 82

"The important thing is to be happy."

Definition
  • Mrs. Soames to everyone
  • Letting everyone know the true meaning of life
  • The really improtant thing in life is to be happy
  • It's all about your outlook on life
  • You can either choose to be happy or miserable, the amount of work is the same
  • So why not be happy?
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Page 57

"There's a lot of sense to some superstions, George."

 

Definition
  • Mr. Webb to George
  • Saying that sometimes superstions are there for a reason
  • We need to think about things, because even things like superstions could be a really smart thing and we should pay attention to them because there could be a lot of sense it it.
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