Analysis Of Our Town By Thornton Wider

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The stage manager in Our Town by Thornton Wider describes, within a monologue, how people in a thousand years will be able to understand what life was like at the time by looking at the different objects that are put inside the time capsule. In the time capsule they have placed a copy of the New York Times, their local newspaper, Shakespeare's plays, the Bible and additionally they decide to include a copy of Our Town. These items represent the ordinary everyday life of a citizen living in Grover's Corners in the early twentieth century. If I were to place an item in a time capsule that would for show what life in Zeeland is like in 2015, I would place a copy of the Bible. What makes a copy of the Bible "my go to item" when it comes to a time

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