All My Sons Act One

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The stage is hedged on R. and L. by tall, closely planted poplars which lend the yard a secluded atmosphere.
About Joe Keller's garden.
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KELLER: I don't read the news part any more. It's more interesting in the want ads.
Frank asks Joe what the bad news is the newspaper that day.
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CHRIS: I like to keep abreast of my ignorance.
Joe asks Chris why he is always looking at the book section in the newspaper even though he never buys a book.
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KELLER: Are you crazy?
Chris says that he will move away with Ann if Joe doesn't let Chris talk to Kate about Larry.
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KELLER: You've got a business here, what the hell is this? CHRIS: The business! The business doesn't inspire me. KELLER: Must you be inspired?
Chris says that he will move away with Ann if Joe doesn't let Chris talk to Kate about Larry.
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KELLER: What the hell did I work for? It's all for you, Chris, the whole shootin'-match is for you!
Chris says that he will move away with Ann if Joe doesn't let Chris talk to Kate about Larry.
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ANN: Boy, the poplars got thick, didn't they?
About the Joe Keller's garden.
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JIM: In the Battalion he was known as Mother McKeller.
Jim is telling Ann about Chris during the war.
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CHRIS: (With admiration) Joe McGuts.
Joe is telling Ann about how he didn't act ashamed in front of the neighbours after he returned home from being exonerated.
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KELLER: Well, he ain't my sweetheart, but you gotta forgive, don't you?
Ann thought Joe would hate Steve after the crime, but Joe says he wants Steve to move back to the block.
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CHRIS: He murdered twenty-one pilots. KELLER: What the hell kinda talk is that?
Ann wants to know if Chris also thinks that Steve should move back.
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KELLER: You know Larry never flew a P-40. CHRIS: So who flew those P-40's, pigs?
Joe is trying to convince Ann to forgive Steve after she says that he may as well have killed Larry.
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KELLER: just try to see it human, see it human.
Joe is trying to convince Ann to forgive Steve.
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KELLER: All right... that's bad, that's wrong, but that's what a little man does.
Joe is trying to convince Ann to forgive Steve.
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KELLER: I know he meant no harm. He believed they's hold up a hundred percent. That's a mistake, but it ain't murder.
Joe is trying to convince Ann to forgive Steve.
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CHRIS: Isn't he a great guy.
Chris talking to Ann about how good it is that Joe just wants everyone to be happy.
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CHRIS: They didn't die; they killed themselves for each other. I mean that exactly; a little more selfish and they'd 've been here today.
Chris is talking to Ann about the men who fought in his Battalion.
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CHRIS: Everything was being destroyed, see, but it seemed to me that a new kind of responsibility was being created. Man for man.
Chris is talking to Ann about how he watched the men in his Battalion die.
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CHRIS: It came out of the love a man can have for a man, you've got to be a little better because of that. Otherwise what you have it really loot, and there's blood on it. I didn't want to take any of it.
Chris is talking to Ann about how he feels guilty for being alive and having material possession after the war. He wants people to think about what they have and be grateful for the sacrifice that the soldiers made.
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Card 2

Front

Frank asks Joe what the bad news is the newspaper that day.

Back

KELLER: I don't read the news part any more. It's more interesting in the want ads.

Card 3

Front

Joe asks Chris why he is always looking at the book section in the newspaper even though he never buys a book.

Back

Preview of the back of card 3

Card 4

Front

Chris says that he will move away with Ann if Joe doesn't let Chris talk to Kate about Larry.

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

Chris says that he will move away with Ann if Joe doesn't let Chris talk to Kate about Larry.

Back

Preview of the back of card 5
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