our town
Most people try to forget the past especially the bad things. When you look back you think of all the good that there was, but with the play "Our Town" it makes you think back to that one time when you ask your mother how pretty you are and the reasons you ask it. In Thornton Wilders play "Our Town", Thornton shows how girls have no self-confidence when they our growing up. The one character, Emily, asks her mother if she was pretty and for most young girls they ask the same thing. It seems like every mother will say the same thing, yes. After asking you not sure why you ask to you mother because she is you mother and in her eye you are the most beautiful person on the face of this earth. Thornton Wilder writes it like this withMrs. Webb: Yes, of course you are. All of my children have good features; I'd be ashamed if they hadn't. Emily: Oh, Mama, that's not what I mean. What I mean is: am I pretty? Mrs. Webb: I've already told you, yes. Now that's enough of that you have a nice young pretty face. I never heard of such foolishness. Emily: Oh, Mama, you never tell us the truth about anything. Mrs. Webb: I am telling you the truth.
I was always picked on when I was younger the kid would treat me so bad I would go home and cry. They would always pick on me because of my hair or my nose or just the way I looked I would look at myself and not think anything was wrong but then they would say these things and it would hurt. I made my mom go and get me the most expensive clothes so I would fit in. I tried to be like the rest of the kids so I would stop being picked on. I had a lot of friends, but I always thought I was not popular enough, so I would try harder. I would lost a lot of friends because I tried to hard to be more popular. When I look back I wish I would have never try as hard and just listen to the friends I had and not the ones that would tell me how I could be better. The people that picked on me got to me when they should not have. When I was younger I should have not listen to the people that hurt me and listen to the people who loved and cared for me. There are a lot of thing I wish I would have done differently, but I was a child and I didn't know any better. When children get hurt as much as I did you wish that some thing could change. The children of today are the same, if not worst then they were year ago. They need guidance for the hurt go thought. prettiest children on the face of the earth, so when they are ask a question about how pretty their children are they say the truth. The children think that their parents are telling them that because they are their parents. I can remember when I was about nine years old asking this question and my mother said the exacted same thing to me. My mother always told me how pretty I was and what good features I had, but it never seemed like I could get a boyfriend or be as popular as all the rest of the kids. It wasn't till recently that I found a boyfriend that cares for me and makes me fell like I am pretty, also that I have enough self confidence to do and say anything. When I was in school I never had a boyfriend it always seemed like my friends would get the guys I wanted or always had a guy that would treat them right. I never had a guy that I liked look my way, never the less ask me out, I always thought that I was the most ug
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