Questions For Our Town

Please answer the three sets of questions that follow:

(1) REALIZING LIFE:
Often the people in Our Town lack any sense of wonder at the everyday goings on of life...This year has brought many changes to our lives.
Discussion questions:
What events have taught us to "realize life"?

(2) WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE ETERNAL? (Think Whitman, Leaves of Grass....)
What does it mean to be eternal?
There is another way that Our Town is like classical Greek drama. Our Town, like The Lion King, if you will, is concerned with the circle of life, or the paradox that from life comes death and from death comes life.
Wilder portrays this arc of life very cleverly:
In Act I, there's a literal birth.
In Act II, there's courtship and marriage.
In Act III, there's a funeral, and discussion of the afterlife.
In this play, Wilder attempts to show that when humans retain their faith that in death there is life...
He is not explicitly religious, although his audience would probably have interpreted the play that way; he mostly stayed away from overtly Christian symbols, preferring instead to concentrate on the cycle of life.
Discussion Questions:
What is it about YOU that's eternal?
What is it about your family that is eternal?
What is it about your town that is eternal?

(3) THERE IS SOMETHING WAY DOWN DEEP INSIDE....
There is a sense of community in most people. Some people are strong individuals, some identify themselves with certain groups or their families or localities. Often these individuals and groups have a sense of whom they are which is based upon traditions of the past. Sometimes they find that they have made changes and become stronger, or weaker.
Who were we? (Who was I?)
Who are we now? (Who have I become?)
Am I like others who have lived here, gone to school here, etc....?