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Themes In The Great Gatsby

... an introduction to Nick Carraway, The Great Gatsby's narrator. He is portrayed as an honest, amiable young man that listens to everyone's problems and is "inclined to reserve all judgements." He then introduces the reader to the other main characters in the novel, his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom Buchanan, as well as the namesake of The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby himself. The story unfolds, and we discover Gatsby's background and his relationship with Daisy. His estrangement from her all these years has been spent with him building hi ...

Number of words: 989 | Number of pages: 4

The Chosen, By Chaim Potok

... Even the setting has an underlying sense of tension. One of the protagonists in The Chosen is Reuven Malter. Reuven is an orthodox Jewish boy. He is a very smart and diligent student. His father, David Malter raises Reuven alone in Brooklyn, New York as his mother has already passed away. Reuven has glasses, brown hair and eyes, and dresses in the typical orthodox manner. A plain boy, he has a bright mind and a very caring soul. The other protagonist in the novel is Danny Saunders. Danny is the son of a very devoted Hasidic Jewish tzaddik. How ...

Number of words: 1155 | Number of pages: 5

Faulkner's "The Unvanquished"

... Throughout the book, idealism seems dominant over pragmatism. For example, all of the Sartoris women were idealists; almost everyone in Yoknapatawpha was an idealist. The fact that John Sartoris was able to get away with murder and be elected into public office soon after is a strong example of this. There were not many pragmatists in the novel. By definition, a pragmatist is one who believes that the meaning of conceptions is to be sought in their practical bearings, that the function of thought is to guide action, and that truth is ...

Number of words: 436 | Number of pages: 2

Odysseus A Hero

... was a kingdom of Ithica which allows for a king Odysseus. Even if the King did not go to the war there was still a chance that he might have existed. In the Odyssey, Homer used a narrative structure to tell his stories. The original texts were wrote on papyrus scrolls and it is theorized that these scrolls each told a chapter in Homers plays. The modern version of The Odyssey is a combination of all these scrolls that could have existed as separate stories about Odysseus’ travels, his encounters, and how he obtained his status as a h ...

Number of words: 1214 | Number of pages: 5

The Metamorphosis: Complexity And Irony Of Man In Society

... in the reverse. Kafka probes the role of the worker within society as a whole and also individual roles within the family unit. The family is the basic institution of society, and Gregors predicament as characterized by his transformation, results in the breakdown of the regular flow of this unit. As a provider, Gregor’s social self has immense meaning. Sufficently he nurtures the familie’s economic needs, binding the unit, and in this way is regarded as fruitful and useful. The irony lies in the realization that Gregor’s chang ...

Number of words: 424 | Number of pages: 2

Animal Farm

... and renamd it Anima lFarm. They made up their own seven commandments. They were : 1- whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy, 2- Whatever goes upon four legsa is good, 3-No animal shall wear , 4- No aniaml should sleep in a bed, 5-No animal shall drink alcohol, 6- No animal shall kill any other animal and 7- All animals are equal.All the animals were found of them and followed them. They even had thier own song Beasts of England. Snowball had a great idea to build a windmill but Napoleon got jealous and wanted the idea all to himslef. So h ...

Number of words: 598 | Number of pages: 3

Beowulf

... highly esteemed in ’s time, but is of little use today. Anglo-Saxon warriors knew that they only had two options when they entered battle; either they live to fight again, or they die honorably amounts their own. Either way was determined by a higher power. The sense of an uncontrollable death left the Anglo-Saxon people without respect for other lives, evident in the amount of fighting in Beowulf, and also an inner gloom, “evident in the somber tone of Beowulf,” (from the text). Recently, philosophy has broken away from the more reli ...

Number of words: 545 | Number of pages: 2

A Tale Of Two Cities: Love Or Hate

... fight between Miss Pross and Madame Defage, is an extremely direct fight between the forces of love and hate. This conflict occurs when Miss Pross tries to keep Madame Defage in a room to keep her from finding the Evermonde’s, whom Miss Pross loves. As Madame Defage attempts to leave Miss Pross attempts to stop her. “It was vain for Madame Defage to struggle and strike; Miss Pross, with vigorous tenacity of love, always so much stronger than hate, clasped her tight and lifted her from the floor in the struggle that they had.” Pg. 3 ...

Number of words: 985 | Number of pages: 4

Death As A Theme In Hamlet

... the very beginning we see how Iago manipulates Roderigo by pretending he is looking out for his best interests in the matter of Othello’s elopement with Desdemona. He makes Barbantio angry with Othello and Desdemona by telling him about their elopement then lying about the consummation of their relationship. He then leaves Roderigo to take responsibility for his (Iago’s) actions. In the meantime he goes off to inform Othello that Roderigo is accountable for telling Barbantio about the relationship and saying horrible things ab ...

Number of words: 975 | Number of pages: 4

Rheingold's Virtual Reality: Summary

... Fisher at NASA, Jaron Lanier at VPL, those at Autodesk, and the VR team at the University of North Carolina. At UNC, Rheingold docks molecules and visits a virtual building; at NASA, he pilots helicopter simulators and operates robots in virtual "outer space;" and in Tsukuba, Japan, he has a high-tech out-of-body experience, watching himself through the eyes of a telerobot. In Hawaii he operates another te lerobot at a Marine research center that is a machine gun. He gives us a brief history lesson on VR and the computer itself highlighting ...

Number of words: 711 | Number of pages: 3

The Adventures Of Huckleberry

... similes Huck's use of action words contribute greatly to the descriptiveness of his account of the summer storm. These words add to the thrust and movement of his description. "Directly it begun to rain...rained like all fury...never see the wind blow so" (43). "...and the rain would thrash along by so thick....blast of wind.." (43+44). These descriptions keep the description moving and keeps the interest of the reader. They invoke common experiences that everyone has experienced. After reading these action words, the reader beg ...

Number of words: 796 | Number of pages: 3

Alice In Wonderland: Enduring, Endearing Nonsense

... a host of other absurd and captivating creatures sprung from the mind of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a shy, stammering Oxford mathematics professor. Dodgson was a deacon in his church, an inventor, and a noted children's photographer. Wonderland, and thus the seeds of his unanticipated success as a writer, appeared quite casually one day as he spun an impromptu tale to amuse the daughters of a colleague during a picnic. One of these girls was Alice Liddell, who insisted that he write the story down for her, and who served as the model for the ...

Number of words: 667 | Number of pages: 3

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