It’s the story of the universe and everything in it. We are born. We live. We die. What is the reason for us being on this Earth if we are just going to leave someday? Multiple different movies and plays and songs ask the same question, though very few actually bother to try answering it. What’s the point? A close look at the movies Hope Floats and Boyhood, the song Blest Be the Tie That Binds, and the poem Lucinda Matlock and a comparison of all these stories to a play called Our Town allows us to look further into the reason behind life and help us answer the question, “What makes life worth living?”
The play Our Town is, simply put, about life and how we choose to live it. It is not noticed upon first watching the play that it is about anything other than an ordinary family just doing what everyday people do, but after analyzing it you discover it’s about much more and relates to the life that each person lives every single day. Each play, song, or movie relates to Our Town- they're all about life. In the play Our Town, the story of two different families plays out in front of us. We see a love story play out also between two characters named George and Emily. Emily’s persona, calm and caring, was appealing to George. …show more content…
It sounds incredibly simplistic: a movie about a mother and daughter who share a bond like no other. They share great moments throughout the movie. Curiosity blooming and wheels turning, Bernice approaches her mother for advice. Birdie Pruitt says to her daughter, “I always thought I was gonna be, I don't know, special. But I'm not. I'm just an ordinary person. And that's ok.” This quote relates back to Our Town because, like I said before, most people in the play are normal and don’t feel the need to change who they are. We all hope that someday one way or another we’ll be set apart from the rest of the world somehow. Have we ever stopped to consider that maybe being normal is
The play Our Town is, simply put, about life and how we choose to live it. It is not noticed upon first watching the play that it is about anything other than an ordinary family just doing what everyday people do, but after analyzing it you discover it’s about much more and relates to the life that each person lives every single day. Each play, song, or movie relates to Our Town- they're all about life. In the play Our Town, the story of two different families plays out in front of us. We see a love story play out also between two characters named George and Emily. Emily’s persona, calm and caring, was appealing to George. …show more content…
It sounds incredibly simplistic: a movie about a mother and daughter who share a bond like no other. They share great moments throughout the movie. Curiosity blooming and wheels turning, Bernice approaches her mother for advice. Birdie Pruitt says to her daughter, “I always thought I was gonna be, I don't know, special. But I'm not. I'm just an ordinary person. And that's ok.” This quote relates back to Our Town because, like I said before, most people in the play are normal and don’t feel the need to change who they are. We all hope that someday one way or another we’ll be set apart from the rest of the world somehow. Have we ever stopped to consider that maybe being normal is