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The Great Gatsby

... war on page 160. The placement and effectiveness of these flashbacks allow Fitzgerald to give more background to each character and to allow the reader to better understand the situation that each character is experiencing. The first example of flashback that Fitzgerald provides takes place on page 79. In this flashback, Jordan explains to Nick how she first met Gatsby. She explains to Nick that when the girls were eighteen, he was with Daisy Fay in her “little white roadster.” This flashback is effective because it gives us an ide ...

Number of words: 575 | Number of pages: 3

Peyton Place

... in the grasp of a new wave of sexual panic. The book turned the "private" into the "political." The avant-garde disturbed the country and critics called the book "wicked," "sordid," and "cheap." Canada declared it indecent and made the importation of the book illegal. Parts of Rhode Island, Indiana, and Nebraska followed suit arguing that the book would corrupt young minds. Wealthy communities banished . To read was to read it in secret and were sometimes discussed only among the closest of friends. Everyone was reading it - college and high ...

Number of words: 915 | Number of pages: 4

To His Coy Mistress 2

... by stating "Had we but world enough, and time, / This coyness, lady, were no crime" (1-2). The speaker is informing his mistress that if he had all the time in the world, he would spend it adoring every part of her body. This quote in the poem foreshadows an appreciation of paradox for the reader since the speaker is talking of a timeless world that does not exist. The speaker tells the mistress how long his love will grow, and how vast it will become. He changes his tone after this stanza in order to effectively explain why he is unabl ...

Number of words: 690 | Number of pages: 3

The Glass Menagerie -x

... is clearly defined by the glow of the "memory play." This is so because everyone of them transposes their difficult situations into shadows of the truth. Laura, our fragile daughter-figure, finds herself escaping life at every turn. She induces sickness in her typing class and even as the Gentleman Caller awaits her in the livingroom. Unable to deal with those difficulties, Laura goes to the zoo and walks aimlessly around the city to waste time. Frightened of interacting with people, she looks to her collection of glass animals as a plac ...

Number of words: 588 | Number of pages: 3

Plot Of Oedipus Rex

... Apollo. Kreon brings news that Thebes suffers because late king Laios's murder has not been avenged. Oedipus decides to seek this murderer, not only for the purpose of cleansing but also the fear that murder might also be a threat to his own life. This is the exposition of the dramatic conflict of finding out the mystery of king Laios murder. The rising action is this search. It starts with Oedipus promising that the person responsible for Laios death will be driven out of Thebes. Oedipus sends for Teiresias, the blind seer who serves Apol ...

Number of words: 990 | Number of pages: 4

Merry-Go-Round In The Sea - Ra

... a small child, the war had a shattering effect on Rob, though in his naivety it was no obvious to himself. The general issues of growing up are hard enough for a child to cope with, let alone the added concern of war. The absence of Rob's father made the war situation considerably harder for him to cope with. Although he was never particularly close to him, Rob respected his father and regarded him a a gentleman "He did not think that there would be any more gentlemen after his father's time." Rob considered this lack of closeness between ...

Number of words: 678 | Number of pages: 3

Hob

... and merriment over gold and wealth. He shows this by placing his life in danger numerous times by escaping ferocious goblins and killing giant spiders to save Thorin and the other dwarfs. Bilbo cares more about others than himself, and Thorin notices how fortunate they are to have such a wise individual as a friend. Because of the goodness in Bilbo, he declines the treasure. It is offered to him since a promise was made in the beginning for him to receive and equal portion of the riches. He refuses the treasure because he feels that t ...

Number of words: 633 | Number of pages: 3

Our Secret

... words are told to her and brought to the paper with added information. She tells throughout the book about these recollections. The author starts the essay with an interviewee and adds in the first fragment about V-1 rockets. Then the interviewee's story mixed in with a biology fragment. The author uses this type of fragment to relate to subjects farther down the essay which makes each fragment relate to the content. Fragments that are used help to explain human nature, insides and outsides, everything affected by past, secrets, caus ...

Number of words: 584 | Number of pages: 3

Maturation Of Scout

... trusted her because "she never told on them, never played cat-and-mouse with them, and because she was not at all interested in their private lives", (chp. 5, pg. 44-45) unlike most Maycomb people. This is also why Scout respected Miss Maudie so much and why she told her, "Miss Maudie, you are the best lady I know" (pg.45). Miss Maudie always made cakes for Scout, Jem and Dill, and she invited them over to eat them and also to play in her backyard. One summer, Scout spent the whole second half of the summer with Miss Maudie. They sat in the ...

Number of words: 1141 | Number of pages: 5

Things Fall Apart

... in the play because Shylock denies being true to himself and others. Therefore, his denial only leads to pain and suffering. Shakespeare creates realistic character Shylock to dictate the trial scene by through his limited roles in the play. Constantly mocked and insulted by Antonio's and others' diatribes, Shakespeare immediately identifies Shylock as a villain. Establishing Shylock's personality through his description that "hath not a Jew hands, … affections, passions" shows that Shylock becomes limited by those descriptions ...

Number of words: 950 | Number of pages: 4

The Master Speed

... by metaphorically discussing the spectacular abilities his daughter possesses but refuses to use. In the first quatrain, the poet suggests that his daughter has speed far greater than the “wind or water rushing by.” The reader learns that she also has the ability to travel “back throughout history and up the stream of time.” By this, the poet suggests that his daughters memories can be passed on through the lives of her children. Frost uses these examples to show that by staying at the “master speed”, st ...

Number of words: 418 | Number of pages: 2

Everything That Rises Must Converge

... in a gentile southern manner. In relation to integration, Mrs. Chestney dismisses the plight of blacks with a southern response, "They should rise, yes, but on their own side of their fence". This attitude most likely resulted from being taught to talk this way all her life. Although she makes thoughtless remarks, her genuine affection for her childhood nurse Caroline, shows that she has no real malice towards the black race. There is a repetition of the words "meet yourself coming and going", in which she implicates ...

Number of words: 574 | Number of pages: 3

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