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- 4121: An Autobiographical Portrayal
- ... wrote and produced a lively musical comedy each fall, and performed it during the Christmas vacation in a dozen major cities across the country. Fitzgerald was also elected to Cottage, which was one of the big four clubs at Princeton. Its lavish weekend parties in impressive surroundings, which attracted girls from New York, Philadelphia and beyond, may well have provided the first grain of inspiration for Fitzgerald s portrayal of Jay ...
- 4122: An Analysis Of The Jay Gatsby
- ... ivy, and a marble swimming pool and more than forty acres of lawn and garden" (9). This house is an immaculate symbol of Gatsby's incalculable income. It has its own entrance gate, and is big enough to hold hundreds of people at a time. His careless use for money to impress others is portrayed through his clothes. The shirts and clothes that are ordered every spring and fall show his ...
- 4123: Antigone Vs. Billy Budd
- ... a problem with Billy Budd being the tragic hero. Billy lacks the necessary attributes of a tragic hero. He doesn't have the stature and tragic sense of awareness which makes a Religion plays a big role in both works. In Antigone, the issue of the proper burial of Polyneices is a main part of the play. This is because according to Greek religious beliefs, a soul could not make it ...
- 4124: A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
- ... are against it, she s talking about Francie and her iron will to get an education and make things easier for her family. At the end of the book Francie is getting ready for some big occasion and she looks across the lot and sees herself 7 years ago when she was ten and still lugging junk to Carney s for pennies. She calls out to the girl saying Hello Francie ...
- 4125: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... gigantic and I be no longer able to master them. (Remarque, All Quiet VII. 146) Again, Baumer notes the impossibility of making the experience of war meaningful within a verbal context: the war is too big, the words describing it would have to be correspondingly immense and, with their symbolic size, might become uncontrollable and, hence, meaningless. While with his father, Baumer meets other men who are certain that they know ...
- 4126: Cry The Beloved Country By Ala
- ... son. His journey demonstrates the unhealthy lifestyle and mutinous atmosphere of the black people; yet he is the beholder of forgiveness, love, hope, and the restoration of a country overwhelmed with problems. The blacks in big cities, such as Johannesburg, are fearful of white men because they have all the power. They own the mines and factories, and make and carry out the laws. When fear is so deeply ingrained in ...
- 4127: Crime Of Passion By Barbara Hu
- ... were described horrifically. He stopped breathing two to three times a day, and every time he stopped he was resuscitated. The nurses stayed to wipe away the saliva that drooled from his mouth, irrigate the big craters of bedsores that covered his hips, suction the lung fluids that threatened to drown him, clean the feces that burned his skin
He was going through an agonizing ordeal, and he was being kept ...
- 4128: Comparsion Between Hearst And
- ... use them to manipulate the news, people and countries. Hearst would also print false headlines about the Spanish brutality in the Cuban revolution, even though they're nothing of sort going on. Hearst like attacking big companies as the people's champion and like Kane contradicted himself when he supported the eight-hour day and the labor unions (Swanberg 235). Both these men used their money for one and only one ...
- 4129: Candide By Voltaire
- ... army. He must make thirty-six passes through the gauntlet of two thousand troops. More outlandish examples of exaggeration can be found in Gargantua and Pantagruel, such as the size of Gargantua's mare (as big as six elephants) or the weight of his dumbbells (each one is eight hundred and five tons). Beside being entertaining to read, these exaggerations serve to point out the ridiculousness of an ideal by showing ...
- 4130: Around The World In Eighty Day
- ... most important character in the novel, he sets the tone for traveling, by daring a sum of twenty thousand pounds that he will make the trip around the world in eighty days. He has a big heart and many a fine qualities, exemplified by his caring for a young woman, to die at the burning stake, and then using his generosity, gave her a free lift. Passepartout- He was hired as ...
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