Theme: Freewill determines the path you will take in life.

ALL: “TIMSHEL!”

Speaker 1:  It might be the most important word in the world”(Steinbeck 301).

Speaker 2:  ‘Thou mayest’-that gives a choice”(Steinbeck 301).

Speaker 3:  My journey, as thou callest it, forth and back again, must needs be done ‘twixt now and sunrise”(Hawthorne 2).

Speaker 4:  -the traveler knows not who may be concealed by the innumerable trunks and the thick boughs overhead”(Hawthorne 3).

Speaker 5:  Anything can happen when human beings allow ideology to trump their humanity”(Quindlen).

ALL: “Anything.”

Speaker 6:  Hence the unimaginable willingness of the men who sent those planes, like fiery torpedoes into public buildings to see themselves”(Quindlen).

Speaker 7:  Hope lies in the bright lines that divides us from the men who did this thing”(Quindlen).

Speaker 8:  “He can choose his course and fight it through and win”(Steinbeck 302).

ALL: “He can choose!”

ALL: “TIMSHEL!”

Speaker 1:  It might be the most important word in the world”(Steinbeck 301).

Speaker 2:  ‘Thou mayest’-that gives a choice”(Steinbeck 301).

Speaker 3:  And I guess a man’s importance in the world can be measured by the quality and number of his glories”(Steinbeck).

Speaker 4 & 5:  “But thou mayest. Nothing they makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother he has still the great choice”(Steinbeck 301).

Speaker 6:  “No matter how pious we may try to be, we will still embellish, hedge, and omit a lubricate the daily machinery of living”(Ericsson).

Speaker 7:  “We have been a race of honest men and good Christians since the days of the martyrs”(Hawthorne).

Speaker 8:  “And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world”(Steinbeck131).

ALL: “Most valuable thing in the world.”

Speaker 1:  “And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected”(Steinbeck 131).

Speaker 2:  “This is elementary common sense”(Kelly 1).

ALL: “TIMSHEL!”

Speaker 3:  It might be the most important word in the world”(Steinbeck 301).

Speaker 4:  ‘Thou mayest’-that gives a choice”(Steinbeck 301).

Speaker 5:  “A man’s importance in the world can be measured by the quality and number of his glories”(Steinbeck).

Speaker 6:  “Was his life good or was it evil?”(Steinbeck 412).

Speaker 7:  “Was he loved or was he hated?”(Steinbeck 412).

Speaker 8:  “Is his death felt as a loss or does a kind of joy come of it?”(Steinbeck 412).

Speaker 1:  “When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror”(Steinbeck 413).

Speaker 2:  “We have been a race of honest men and good Christians since the days of the martyrs”(Hawthorne).

ALL: “TIMSHEL!”

Speaker 3:  It might be the most important word in the world”(Steinbeck 301).

Speaker 4:  “And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him” (Steinbeck 299).

ALL: “TIMSHEL!”