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Summary: Excellent tragedy
Review: REVIEW: AFTER SOME PAGES I LIKED THIS BOOK SO MUCH THAT I COULDN'T END ANYMORE READING TILL I FINISHED IT. THE STORY CAUGHT ME MORE OR LESS FROM THE BEGINNING BECAUSE IT WAS SO INTERESTING AND FULL OF TENSION. THIS BOOK IS REALY RECOMMANDABLE FOR EVERYONE. IT CONTAINS SO MUCH LIKE LOVE, FAMILY PROBLEMS, INTRIGUES, CRIMES... THERE IS AT LEAST FOR EVERYONE ONE INTERESTING SUBJECT.
Rating: 
Summary: Fine
Review: The action takes place in less than 24 hours. According to the introduction by Christopher Bigsby, Miller is most concerned with the fractures in relationships. The main character, Bigsby contends, Joe Keller, does not understand the social contract. In the opening it is established that Keller had two sons and now has one. His neighbor is a doctor. Keller lives in a substantial house with, it is evident, a tree-shaded yard. The doctor's wife wants him to treat patients to get the fees, even if the treatment is unnecessary. Kate Keller wants to believe the dead son, Larry, is coming home again. Chris, the remaining son, wants to confront his mother with the truth. Chris also tells his father he is going to ask his brother's fiancee to marry him. Ann has been in New York for three and a half years. Kate Keller doesn't understand why she is visiting now. His mother, Kate, surmises that Chris wants to marry Ann. Ann's father has been imprisoned for causing defective parts to be sold for military planes. The actual culprit is the owner of the business, Joe Keller. At an earlier stage in the drama Ann doesn't know her father is innocent. Chris was moved by the comraderie and loyalty of the men with whom he served in the armed forces. The doctor's wife tells Ann about Joe's perfidy. Chris had not yet learned part way through the action of the play that his father was responsible for the defective parts. Joe was acquitted at his trial. Ann's brother George tells her that Chris's father destroyed their family. It seems that Joe had told their father to weld over the defective cylinder heads. Joe wouldn't come down to see the parts. He was sick with the flu he claimed, but he promised to take responsibility. In court Joe denied making the phoned instructions. George wants to go and talk to Chris's father. Kate Keller tells Chris his brother is alive because if he's dead his father, Joe Keller, killed him. Through his mother's statements Chris learns that his father did have a role in releasing the defective parts. Joe Keller claims he kept the family factory profitable for Chris's sake. The writer of the introduction claims that the success of the play scared the playwright who had produced nothing comparable yet in his career when the play was produced in 1947. It is very very good. Nothing about it is dated.
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Summary: War crimes
Review: The action takes place in less than 24 hours. According to the introduction by Christopher Bigsby, Miller is most concerned with the fractures in relationships. The main character, Bigsby contends, Joe Keller, does not understand the social contract. In the opening it is established that Keller had two sons and now has one. His neighbor is a doctor. Keller lives in a substantial house with, it is evident, a tree-shaded yard. The doctor's wife wants him to treat patients to get the fees, even if the treatment is unnecessary. Kate Keller wants to believe the dead son, Larry, is coming home again. Chris, the remaining son, wants to confront his mother with the truth. Chris also tells his father he is going to ask his brother's fiancee to marry him. Ann has been in New York for three and a half years. Kate Keller doesn't understand why she is visiting now. His mother, Kate, surmises that Chris wants to marry Ann. Ann's father has been imprisoned for causing defective parts to be sold for military planes. The actual culprit is the owner of the business, Joe Keller. At an earlier stage in the drama Ann doesn't know her father is innocent. Chris was moved by the comraderie and loyalty of the men with whom he served in the armed forces. The doctor's wife tells Ann about Joe's perfidy. Chris had not yet learned part way through the action of the play that his father was responsible for the defective parts. Joe was acquitted at his trial. Ann's brother George tells her that Chris's father destroyed their family. It seems that Joe had told their father to weld over the defective cylinder heads. Joe wouldn't come down to see the parts. He was sick with the flu he claimed, but he promised to take responsibility. In court Joe denied making the phoned instructions. George wants to go and talk to Chris's father. Kate Keller tells Chris his brother is alive because if he's dead his father, Joe Keller, killed him. Through his mother's statements Chris learns that his father did have a role in releasing the defective parts. Joe Keller claims he kept the family factory profitable for Chris's sake. The writer of the introduction claims that the success of the play scared the playwright who had produced nothing comparable yet in his career when the play was produced in 1947. It is very very good. Nothing about it is dated.
Rating: 
Summary: an interesting family tragedy
Review: The autor's idea was pretty good and he knows how to show lifestyle in those hard years after second World War. While reading this book you can really identify with that time and also the people in this play. They are all different from each other and everyone has his own opinion and view of life. Especially Joe is an interesting character 'cause he's so phony (e.g. play police with the children, takes advantage of other people, for example Ann's father). But also the mother is a very important character allthough she's not noticed so much in the play. In general the book isn't really captivating because the scenes are all similar and until the end they more and more boring. The discussons haven't enough changes and the scene setting is always the same. Only the end has a surprising and more intresting effect. Not bad but the author could have made more out of it!
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Summary: An Early Example of Miller's Genius
Review: This 1947 play contains all of the basic themes that would figure prominently in such later Miller masterpieces as DEATH OF A SALESMAN, THE CRUCIBLE, and A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE. Joe Keller is a former airplane part manufacturer who during WWII allowed defective parts to be shipped out -- in order to save his own job -- then blamed his partner, Steve Deever, for the "oversight" when the planes crashed. A particularly disturbing aspect of the drama is that Joe's wife, Kate, knows the truth about her husband's crime but chooses to keep silence for the sake of her own belief that Larry, the Kellers' elder son who went missing in action, is still alive. The important themes in ALL MY SONS are the individual's responsibility to his family versus his responsibility to society at large, and the possibility -- or impossibility -- that a man may lead a "normal" life while knowing that he betrayed his own family. It is chilling the way Miller has Keller's guilt gradually force itself to the surface during the course of the play, until we at last see him in all his guilt and shame as a tragic figure. I encourage you to read this excellent, early Miller work.
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Summary: a family tragedy
Review: This play is about a family tragedy after the Second World War. It was very interesting to read this book. The idea of the story was very special and clever. The characters were shown in a good way with a lot of tension. We could identify with these persons well. The language was clear and quite easy to understand. The end was quite unexpected.
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Summary: An Early Example of Miller's Genius
Review: This play is magnificient. I won't tell you the plot, because you really need to read it for yourself. If you enjoyed The Crucible and Death of a Salesman, this should be the next Miller book to your library. A great play to put on also. A driving piece of work that sets up Miller's continual theme of personal versus business ethics.
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Summary: Not His Best, but Great!
Review: This play is magnificient. I won't tell you the plot, because you really need to read it for yourself. If you enjoyed The Crucible and Death of a Salesman, this should be the next Miller book to your library. A great play to put on also. A driving piece of work that sets up Miller's continual theme of personal versus business ethics.
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Summary: a family tragedy after the II World War.
Review: This play tells the story of a family-tragedy after the II World War. The book was quite interesting to read. The big difference between the characters creates a very complex structure of relations, that are all defined (for example: the two brothers are supposed to dislike each other). The problems of guilt and forgiving are impressionably described and discussed. But also the question of faith and believe is expressed and brought to the reader. Generally, the whole story is written in a way which
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Summary: Americanism
Review: This sums up American society in all .A very good book with a disappointing ending. A few to many charecters like Sue and Jim should just be The Keller family an Anna nad George
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