Ironically, his quest will lead to his own death.
Brother Juniper, a Franciscan missionary, happens to witness the tragedy, and as a result, he asks the central question of the novel: "Why did this happen to those five?" He sets out to explore the lives of the five victims, and to understand why they died. The plot is deceptively simple: On July 20, 1714, "the finest bridge in all Peru" collapses and five people die. Wilder previously wrote The Bridge of San Luis Rey, his second novel, published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. Our Town is one of the great plays, written by Thornton Wilder with the original title, "Our Town - A Play in 3 acts".
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