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All My Sons Flashcards

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“Character after character invokes

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Money as a reason for relinquishing ideals or hopes” Christopher Bigsby

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Ann”signifies public acknowledgement of

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Larry’s death” Christopher Bigsby

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Joe Keller “represents a

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Pragmatism that coexisted with… idealism in wartime America” Christopher Bigsby

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4
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“Joe and his wife live in

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Fear of bad news” CB

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5
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Chris “seems to quietly abandon

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His own rhetoric” CB

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Annie, I’m going to make a

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Fortune for you

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“Kate’s knowledge

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Strips him of the authority he once wielded”CB

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“The language of material success blots our the

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Language of guilt”

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9
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Miller has also said that he does not

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See Keller as a criminal

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10
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“Joe keller knows he is guilty but

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Has to preserve the idea of his innocence”

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11
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“They all construct fiction that enable them to

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Justify themselves in their own eyes”CB

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12
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Tall, closely

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Planted poplars

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13
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Fruits still

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Clinging to its branches

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14
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Well that’s what a war does

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I had two sons, now I got one

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15
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Seeing the jail

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Ain’t allowed, Bert

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16
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You have such a talent for ignoring things

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I ignore what I gotta ignore

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17
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Every time I reach out for something I want

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I have to pull back because other people wil suffer

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18
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You marry that girl and you’re

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Pronouncing him dead

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19
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I’ve been a good son too long,

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I good sucker. I’m through with it

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20
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That’s only for you, Chris,

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The whole shooting match is for you!

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21
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Everything that happened

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Seems to be coming back

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22
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Everybody was in such a

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Hurry to bury him

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23
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Because if he’s not coming back,

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Then I’ll kill myself!

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24
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Because certain things have to be…

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Like the sun has to rise

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25
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All the one who yelled murderer

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Taking my money now

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26
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The beast!

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I was the beast

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27
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He murdered

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21 pilots

28
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Father or no father

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There’s only one way to look at him

29
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They didn’t die

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They killed themselves for each other

30
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Otherwise what you really have is loot,

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And there’s blood in it

31
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Be smart now joe.

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The boy is coming. Be smart.

32
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You notice there’s more

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Light with that thing gone

33
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There are certain people, y’know,

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The sicker they get the longer they live

34
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Chris makes people want to be better

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Than it’s possible to be

35
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The holy

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Family

36
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Everybody know joe pulled a

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Fast one to get out of jail

37
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There’s not a person on this block

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Who doesn’t know the truth

38
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Phone

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Idealism

39
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My only accomplishment

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Is my son

40
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I don’t understand why she has to

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Crucify the man

41
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He suddenly gets the flu!

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Suddenly! But he promised to take responsibility

42
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The voice of

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God

43
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Honest to god

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It breaks my heart to see what happened to all the children

44
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Your bothers alive, darling, because

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If he’s dead, your father killed him

45
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God does not let a son be

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Killed by his father

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For me! For me! I was dying everyday

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And you were killing my boys and you did it for me?

47
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(stumbles away) What must i do,

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Jesus god, what must I do?

48
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It takes a certain talent…

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For lying. You have it and I do. But not him

49
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you wanted money

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so I made money. what must I be forgiven?

50
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its got to

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excuse it!

51
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theres something bigger than family to him

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nothing is bigger

52
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im not trying to

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hurt you kate

53
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your’e going in the morning, and your

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going alone

54
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im yellow

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I was made yellow in this house because I suspected my father and I did nothing about it

55
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I could jail him, if I were human any more.

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but im like everybody else now. Im practical now. You made me practical.

56
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only the dead ones wernt

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practical

57
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im an old

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dead man, nothing is mine

58
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war and peace,

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its nickels and dimes

59
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Half the goddamn country gotta go

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if I gotta go!

60
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(pleading) Chris, a man cant be a

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Jesus in this world

61
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Sure he was my son.

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But I think to him they were all my sons. and I guess the were, I guess they were.

62
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What more can we be!

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You can be better! Once and for all you can know there’s a universe of people outside and you’re responsible to it

63
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the war is over! Didn’t

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you hear?—its over!

64
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Mother, I didnt

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mean to…

65
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Don’t dear. Don’t take it on yourself.

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forget now. live.

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