Our Town: Universal Theme Of Family

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and giving
us a reality check, he makes sure we know we are still in reality. The
Stage manager creates quite and effective environment by playing different
parts. Although in the play he plays many miscellaneous roles, to the
audience he is the constant reminder that this is a play. He serves as a
gateway between two worlds of "Our Town" and 1998.
In the third act of the play, the sub-theme, death has a big impact
on the whole plotline. Emily has died, and many others included that were
main characters have also died. This play not only has a strange twist to
the plot, but also a very different conclusion. It ends with everyone dead
and the dead talking about how the living do not understand. Now do they
mean we are ignorant of death? Or do we not understand what life is about.
As a great man once said "We do not understand how great something is…until
we lose ...

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