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- 3651: The Great Gatsby 7
- ... from Friday nights to Monday mornings. His house and garden is decorated with thousands of colored lights, enough to make a Christmas tree of his enormous garden. (39) Buffet tables are garnished with glistening hors-d oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold. (40) He has famous singers that entertain his guests whom are the most well known ... so prestigious. Gatsby is also compared to Hoppalong Cassidy. Both Hoppalong and Gatsby were trying to improve their selves. Gatsby evens has a schedule and general resolves that he followed. Hoppalong is remembered to this day because he was a fantasy character like Gatsby. Because of the portrayal of Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby he is seen as a larger-than-life Romantic figure.
- 3652: The Odyssey 2
- ... call an assembly to inform the suitors to leave Odysseus' premises at once. The suitors, who already have been courting Penelope, were also causing great amounts of chaos, by eating large amounts of cattle each day, and feasting off of Odysseus's riches. Not only, according to the Greeks, was this a way of taking advantage of the action of generosity, but this was also greatly offending Odysseus and Telemachus, not ... after the assembly, the suitors mock and taunt him. Telemachus walks down to the beach and cleanses his hands, and begins to pray to Athena. In his prayer, he explains to Athena on how the day she visited him, she told him to go get a ship and crew, call the assembly and make his move. Yet, after Telemachus calls the assembly, he is mocked and taunted at every chance the ... he will be like his father, successful and famous as a strong hero. "Few sons are equals of their fathers; / most fall short, all too few surpass them. / But you, brave and adept from this day on- / Odysseus' cunning has hardly given out in you- / there's every hope that you will reach your goal." (page 102, lines 309-313). One of the reasons for Telemachus going to the beach ...
- 3653: The Sound Of A Memory
- ... sprung again and again against// the rock-studded sand, the danger not in the desert but around it" (651). Again we see alliteration used throughout the quote. The "s" sound in "sweet sixteen," or the "d" in "danger not in the desert," pulls the idea together. And it keeps a steady, smooth sound that is pleasant to the ear. It is not hard to imagine the sound of the tires in ... the time that he "took// a horseshoe curve at 50 and approached// an even sharper one- the slender cycle shaking apart- ;// and [he] wondered what to do, like Porthos// going back to the bomb he'd planted to make sure// he'd lit the fuse... when- BOOM!- ;" (652). Rudman uses a fast pace to parallel the speed of the bike, and he uses yet another simile to compare his situation to that of one of the ...
- 3654: The Role Of Women In Utopia An
- ... First of all is Brabianto's aforementioned idea that she is the perfect daughter, and thus surely not like other daughters. "A maiden never bold, of spirit so still and quiet that her mation blush'd at herself". However, Desdemona also plays the part of the deceptive daughter, "She has deceiv'd her father, and may thee". Her image almost appears to be contradictory at certain stages, she talks brazenly and sexually with Iago in Act 2 like a woman who appears to have everything well sussed ... bodies in plays like Shakespeare's. Husband's killing their wives also appears to be a common theme. Desdemona's earlier murder is mirrored when Iago kills Emilia "The woman falls; sure he hath kill'd his wife" (V. ii. 236). Desdemona moved her audience to pity through her helpless state of her at her death. This is perhaps an indication of a belief at the time that women were ...
- 3655: The Rocking-horse Winner
- "The Rocking-Horse Winner" by D.H. Lawerence talks about a family who lived in style, but always had anxiety in their house. There was never enough money. The parents knew the children were growing up and they would need money ... more money! There must be more money! The children could here it aloud but never dared to say it. The mother believed they were poor due to the fact her husband had no luck. One day the boy asked his mother what luck really was. She replied,"It's what causes you to have money. If you are lucky you have money. That's why it it's better to be ...
- 3656: The True Evil - Frankenstein
- ... definition of sinew is connective tissue or supporting force. From this definition, the first two lines then ask what creature or art could have changed Satan from a glorious angel of God to the present day evil entity. The word "art" may also be a reference to a tiger. The tiger's poise and hunting skill is often referenced as that of art. Next, the poem tells of the actual creation ... a symbol of the industrial revolution and its positive and negative effects on society. "Hammer," "chain," "furnace," and "anvil" provide this illustration of the industrial revolution. "When the stars threw down their spears / And water'd heaven with their tears, / Did he smile his work to see? / Did he who made the Lamb make thee?" (Lines 17-20) Lines 17 through 19 follow directly with the story of Satan's fall ...
- 3657: The Time Maching (analysis)
- ... for the magazines that were of that time. In 1894 he began to write science-fiction stories. -James Gunn Wells vision of the future, with its troglodytic Morlocks descended from the working class of his day and the pretty but helpless Eloi devolved from the leisure class, may seem antiquated political theory. It emerged out of the concern for social justice that drew Wells to the Fabian Society and inspired much ... carvings and how primitive the people were he had doubts that he was in the future. This proved by when the time traveler is remembering the date on his dials that read 802, 701 A.D. He noticed the Eli diet as been composed of mainly fruit and vegetables. He noticed there was no signs of economic or cultural struggle in the surroundings so the time traveler has some knowledge of ...
- 3658: Typical American By Gish Gen
- ... had no neck. And then they could not imagine how parents drowned their daughters, as they knew farmers in China often did - bathing the baby, it was called. (Typical American, 116) Ralph got his Ph.D. and was working as a scholar. Even though it was what he wanted to do when he came to America, he discovered that it was not enough, that he wanted something more. His dreams seemed ... were books everywhere. Making Money. Be Your Own Boss! Ninety Days to Power and Success. Theresa pictured her brother, feet up on the desk like Pete the super, thumbing through these. Where was the Ph.D. he'd worked so hard for? Helen had taken it to a special place to have it framed, Theresa recalled. Now it languished on a high shelf, under a box full of cash register tapes. (Typical ...
- 3659: Two Short Stories Of Awareness
- ... is mostlyimaginary. The setting and images of this story offered a mood that was bleak. The boy s mood and theexternal surroundings were in sympathy with each other. For example, at the end of the day when thestalls were closing down and there was not enough time, this provided an external mood that was inharmony with his inward mood. The setting of A Sunrise On The Veld took place in an ... areas or as the titleindicates, in an actual veld. The season is winter in this story, early morning, approximately two hoursbefore sunrise. The air smelled new and fresh, it was the beginning of a new day. There weredescriptions of nature, for example: the wall of trees; the grass was described as tall; and therewas a river around him. The narrator described the beauty and variety of nature. The character had dogsrunning ... was a sense of theshortness of time and the character realized that he too was mortal. He got a fore ta!ste of his own death and the idea that he too will die one day. There was a contrast between the beauty of the surroundings and the newness of the earlymorning and the death of the buck; it stood out in contrast. In the short stories, through all components, ...
- 3660: To Kill A Mockingbird 6
- ... there. Scout was very upset that she got scolded for explaining the caste system to the teacher, but then she began to understand. ...but if Walter and I had put ourselves in her shoes we d have seen it was an honest mistake on her part. We could not expect her to learn all of Maycomb s ways in one day, and we could not hold her responsible when she knew no better. (30). A lot of the time, people don t stop to understand a person, but are quick to make judgements. All people need ...
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