Comparison Of Our Town By William Armstrong

Two stories show the circle of life through the eyes of characters who have suffered and lost. William H. Armstrong wrote the book Sounder to show the tragedy of death affects the boy. Thornton Wilder wrote Our Town to show the cycle of life and death with two characters named George and Mr. Webb. His Stage Manager says, “This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our dying.” These two stories are extremely different in the story line but have the same basic idea that although people lose and suffer, they look for the positive side of things.

The story of Sounder told the tragic story of a boy losing his father and dog. The dog went missing for a very long time and the father departed to jail and then did hard labor for even longer. After this the boy moved on and met a teacher to help him learn. Then the boy went on to be a writer and author to leave the past and face the future. The bow showed great determination when he kept trying to make life better than to worry about the tragic past. Through all his suffering he became spiritually and physically stronger which helped know that life would all ways go on. Later in life the boy became a successful author and writer and

Two main charters suffered and lost much more than others did. George Gibbs married Emily Webb who died from giving birth to her second child. After Emily died George went on to become a wealthy farmer and had his sister help take care of his two children. Eventually he decided to go to agriculture college and start a large and wealthy farming business at his farm. After graduated from college he remarried and bought a new car and started a company. In this experience of lost George learned that he should keep on going and not look back at the horrible past and face what coming. “people are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be