Critique of the Novel Our Town Essay -- Thornton Wilder

Thornton Wilder was born on April 17, 1897, and died on December 7, 1975. He was born in Madison, Wisconsin to Amos Wilder, an Ameri behind diplomat, and Isabella Wilder. Thornton Wilder started writing plays in The Thacher School in Ojai, California, and graduated from Berkeley High School in 1915. He served in the Coast Guard in World struggle II. After the war he attended Oberlin College, then Yale University where he get his B.A. in 1920. His writing was h nonpareild at Yale where he was a part of the important Delta Phi Fraternity which is a literary society. In 1926, he earned his M.A. in French from Princeton University. Wilder won Pulitzer Prizes for The Bridge of San Luis Rey in 1928, Our Town in 1938, and The Skin of Our Teeth in 1942. He also won the ease Prize of the German Book Trade in 1957, the Presidential palm tree of Freedom in 1963, and the National Book Award in 1967 for his original The Eighth Day.Form, Structure, and PlotThe novel is organized into three acts, each one representing a different period of time. There are only devil flashbacks in the book. The prime(prenominal) takes place in act two, afterward George and Mr. Webb cede a conversation. They both leave the stage and the Stage Manager introduces the flashback of when Emily and George had their first date at Mr. Morgans drugstore. The secondly flashback is not so untold a flashback as it is time travel. It occurs in act three after Emily Webb joins the rest of the dead. She, as well as the Stage Manager, goes back in time to revisit her twelfth birthday. The first act is of George Gibbs and Emily Webb as teens, the second act is of their marriage, and the third act is of Emily Webbs funeral. In the play a total of twelve years is covered. Throughout the play, the tone becomes more and m... ...out that Emily is dead. supererogatory CommentsI was not thrilled with this book, but I did not shun it. The books strengths are that it has good, applicable themes that are e asy to understand. some other strength that the book has is that it is not written in formal diction, so it is easy to read and understand. One of its weaknesses is that it is sometimes hard to follow the diagram because of the lack of narration. The reader can get confused because of sudden photograph or time changes. The book does leave one lingering irresolution What happens to George Gibbs? Although this is not my favorite book, it will have lasting effects on me. The transience of human life is a universal theme that can be observed by anyone. BibliographyThornton (Niven) Wilder (1897-1975). .Our Town. Wikipedia. .