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Brief Summary Of The Play Our Town
In the play “ Our Town “ by Thorton Wilder was based on a fictional town. The theme of the play in my opinion is never take life for granted, always appreciate it. I say that because in act 3 that I’m going to explain about, Emily dies and come back alive.

Act one is called “ Daily Life “ and it gives us an insight on the townspeople lives, but it mainly focused on two american families name gibsses and webbut is they lived a modest, busy , full life. Those two families lived next door from each other in this act. Wilder portay the two families so he can find their similarities. Every morning the train whistle blow at 5:45am and that’s what time all the activites started. Dr.Gibbs and the newspaper boy spreads around a rumor that the

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