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Our Town Theme

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The theme of the play “Our Town” is people take life for granted. During Act Three of the play in page 100, Emily says, “Do humans ever realize life while they live it?-every,every minute?” This shows how people don’t realize while they are living how precious life truly is. This also show even though some people may end up thinking about this, they wouldn’t think about it every minute of their life. Furthermore, On page 101, Simon Stimson claims, “That’s what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance… that’s the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness.” This shows that people are happy when they are alive because they are quite ignorant to the fact of death. Only after death could someone truly realize

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