Gatsby's Dream
.... it” (182). Gatsby's determination to gain a large
bankroll is a huge part of the American dream. He believes that once he achieved
his financial goal it would lead to a better life.
In America the car is one of the greatest status symbols. Gatsby's gorgeous
machine is one of the most majestic cars created. Nick's comments on the vehicle
describe its luster, “...and there in its monstrous length with triumphant
hatboxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes...Sitting down behind many layers of
glass in a s .....
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Huckleberry Finn: Good Vs. Evil
.... Huck had an absolutely
perfect chance to turn him over. However, he made up a story that his father
was sick and needed help and asked the slave hunters for help. They immediately
assumed that his father had smallpox, and he wanted nothing to do with Huck or
his father. Thus, he had saved Jim, and actually felt good about it. Further
along in the book, Jim becomes a slave again. Huckleberry, with the aid of Tom
Sawyer, free's Jim. Once again, Jim's escape and freedom are more important to
Huck t .....
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Grapes Of Wrath: Summary
.... Grandma's dead."
She keeps the family together when they want to split up. The first
time that this was showed in the book when they pulled over to help the Wilsons
with the car. Tom suggested that him and Casey stay and fix the car while the
rest of the family go's on to Bakersfield and that they would meet them there.
Ma then let out her fury, she held up a tire iron and demanded that they all
stick together and that they will go to Bakersfield together.
Ma is also very smart. Her common sense is a .....
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The Grapes Of Wrath: Symbolism
.... that
are unbroken by nature. The theme is one of man verses a hostile environment.
His body destroyed but s spirit is not broken. The method used to develop the
theme of the novel is through the use of symbolism. There are several uses of
symbols in the novel from the turtle at the begging to the rain at the end. As
each symbol is presented through the novel they show examples of the good and
the bad things that exist within the novel.
The opening chapter paints a vivid picture of the situation facing .....
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Grapes Of Wrath: Awakening Of Tom Joad
.... one corner having been knocked in by a tractor. His family had been
compelled to leave their land through repossession by the large corporations
another example in Tom's life how the larger are trying to control the less
fortunate. This land had been his family's source of pride and livelihood
throughout his life with them and it's loss was the first sizable impact on
Tom's conscience that would lead him to an awakening.
After visiting the land the Joad family had lived on for many years Tom
and J .....
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Grapes Of Wrath And Of Mice And Men: Character Study
.... Grapes of Wrath" Is one family, the Joads, who has
been kicked off their Oklahoma farm and forced to move to California to look for
work. The story has historical significance as it is true that many families
were forced, in the same way as the Joads, to leave their homes to look for
work during the depression. It is in this fact that one can see how Steinbeck's
intention in "The grapes of Wrath" was to depict the hardships people went
through during an actual event in American history. Perhaps th .....
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Great Gatsby: Fitzgerald's Criticism Of The American Dream
.... money, fame, success, glamour, and excitement. Tom
and Daisy must have a huge house, a stable of polo ponies, and friends in Europe.
Gatsby must have his enormous mansion before he can feel confident enough to
try to win Daisy. Fitzgerald does not criticize the American dream itself but
the corruption of that dream. What was once for Ben Franklin or Thomas
Jefferson a belief in self-reliance and hard work has become what Nick Carraway
calls " . . . the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beaut .....
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The Great Gatsby: Gatsby's Illusion Of Himself
.... then
liquor. He clips out articles about Daisy from every newspaper he can find; he
buys a huge, romantic house that he hopes will merit her approval. The parties
that he throws every night in hopes that she will come become almost famous for
their extravagance and the variety of people that come.
A result of this is that Gatsby creates an illusion around himself,
also. His past is shrouded in mystery and speculation: some favorites of the
party-goers' theories on why he is so free and generous with his .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Great Quotes By The Characters
.... to Jem: "Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but he is
still a man. Every mob in every little Southern town is always made up of
people you know- doesn't say much for the, does it?" Page 160 Chapter 16
Determined
Talking to Scout: "Scout, simply by the nature of the work, every lawyer gets
one case in his lifetime that affects him personally. This one's mine I guess.
You might here some ugly talk about it at school, but do one thing for me if you
will: you just hold your head high and keep yo .....
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Grendel
.... eyes humans are going to destroy
themselves and he will be glad when it happens.
Grendel is very lonely in the world of man. He has only one person close to
him and that is his mother. She cares for Grendel but just with the natural
motherly instincts which Grendel sees as mechanical. Grendel doesn't understand,
"Why can't I have someone to talk to?" as the world starts to look darker in his
eyes. Animals of all sorts are enemies of his because they don't understand him.
Grendel is more superior
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Gulliver's Travels
.... first voyage to Lilliput, his role as the town giant not
only put into perspective the selfishness and unrelenting need for power of the
human race, but also opened his eyes to the untrusting and ungrateful nature of
those aforementioned. When he first arrived in their land, the Lilliputians
opted to tie him up, giving him no freedom, which he luckily did not object to.
Then, once they had developed a somewhat symbiotic realationship with him,
Gulliver was basically forced to abide to their whims an .....
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Gulliver's Travels
.... "A Voyage to Lilliput", when Gulliver finds
himself lost in a world one-twelfth the size of his own, he proves himself to be
quite naive and impressionable. Although he is simply too large to perceive
them in detail, Gulliver judges the country's inhabitants he meets to be as
perfect and innocent as their toylike appearances. He refers to the Lilliputian
emperor, a being not even six inches high, as “His Imperial Majesty” and blindly
agrees to perform any demanded service, even though he could easily .....
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Harrison Bergeron
.... gifted not being able to finish a complete thought because of the sharp
sounds produced by the mental handicaps. With the handicaps imposed there would
not the breakthroughs that are needed to improve the population's way of life.
Suppose someone did not have the ability to invent the automobile. It would be
difficult to commute to school or work. Imagine if you had to walk to work
every day no matter how bad the weather is. Now-a-days people complain about
having to simply walk out to their car in t .....
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Hawthorne's Characters: Pride Of Intellect
.... veil affects all parts of his life, his fiance leaves him
and he can no longer relate to his congregation the same way. "As a result of
wearing the veil, Hooper becomes a man apart, isolated from love and sympathy,
suspected and even feared by his congregation"(Minister's Black Veil, 228).
Goodman Brown suffers the same fate because he also has a feeling of superiority
over the rest of the village. He attains this feeling after he sees all the
people that he though were good and pure participating in s .....
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Catcher In The Rye: Holden Caufield
.... is a phony). Holden is by far
not all bad, inside he is moral and generous. There are very clear examples of
these good qualities. He had some moral sense because when "bought" the
prostitute Sunny for a throw he could not go threw with it, so he paid her
anyway and sent her away from him. Holden was charitable when he gave a
considerably large donation of twenty dollars to the two nuns. This action was
nothing other than an act of pure kindness.
Holden Caufield has a foil or an opposite in the story, .....
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