Thornton Wilder expected the audience to feel nostalgic about the setting of Grover's Corners. This event is taken from the "Our Town" play created by Thornton Wilder which tells about a town named Grover's Corners. In the opening scene, the stage manager intends to makes the audience feel nostalgic because he wants to tell them about the town's history. Grover's Corners is described as a small town that does not have big landmarks.
He acts as if the world is ending.
His own drawings contradicted everything he felt about the things found in the chest. When all of the things he found in the chest disgusted him and proved to be worthless to him, his drawings had elicited feelings he had from his childhood. He soon realizes how important those things in the chest were especially that a part of his childhood was found there.
The rhetorical device being used in the
sentence above is parallelism.
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Parallelism uses words and phrases identical in
structure. As in the sentence, “<span>They have chained, bound, and gagged our freedom”,
uses the same form of the verb which is in past tense.</span></span>
