Stage manager:
and as you watch it, you see the thing that they, down there, never know. you see the future. you know what's going to happen afterwards.

emily:
but is ? why?

mrs. gibbs:
that's not the only reason why you shouldn't do it, emily. when you've been here longer you'll see that our life here is to forget all that and think only of what's ahead and be ready for what's ahead. when you've been here longer you'll understand.

emily:
but, mother gibbs, how can i ever forget that life? it's all i know. it's all i had.

in at least two hundred words, discuss the importance of memory in act iii of our town. how does the text illustrate this theme? consider the way that memory influences the happiness of the characters, as well as how it fits into the overall theme of universality.

In 1808, their friend, the romantic poet clemens brentano, asked them to collect all types of folk tales so he could use them in a book of literary fairy tales. in 1810, they sent him fifty-four texts, which they fortunately copied. fortunately, because brentano then lost the manuscript in the ölenberg monastery in alsace and never used the grimms’ texts. when they realized that brentano was not going to use the tales, they decided, upon the advice of another romantic writer and mutual friend, achim von arnim, to publish their collection. it had grown to eighty-six tales, which they published in 1812, and then another seventy, which they published in 1815. –“how the grimm brothers saved the fairy tale,” jack zipes what structural technique does the writer use in this passage? the writer describes events in chronological order. the writer describes events in their order of importance. the writer provides a central idea and then lists examples. the writer shows how the grimms made mistakes and then solved them.