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- 3841: Great Gatsby
- ... shining star in life, much of what he lived for. In his younger years, Gatsby worked on the south shore of Lake Superior earning room and board by digging clams and fishing for salmon. One day he saw the beautiful yacht of the millionaire Dan Cody and borrowed a rowboat to warn Cody of an impending storm. Cody took the seventeen-year-old boy on as a mate, and secretary. When ... Cody died, he left the boy, now Jay Gatsby, a legacy of $25,000. Unfortunately Gatsby never got the amount of money that he deserved because Cody’s wife stole most of it. On the day that he saved Dan Cody's yacht, he must have seen an embodiment of everything he wanted. In a strange sort of way Gatsby never believed that he was just James Gatz. He had an idea of what he wanted to be. Gatsby had an image of himself, to which he gave the name Gatsby. From the day that he met Dan Cody he decided to dedicate his life to the development of the idea of himself that existed in his head. Although he was successful at making money in business, Jay ...
- 3842: Great Expectations And Oliver Twist
- ... questioned about his first visit to Miss Havisham's house, he made up along elaborate story to make up for the terrible time he had in reality. Instead of telling how he played cards all day while being ridiculed and criticized by Estella and Miss Havisham, he claimed that they played with flags and swords all day after having wine and cake on gold plates.15 However, one special quality possessed by Pip that is rarely seen in a novel's hero is that he wrongs others instead of being hurt himself ... Kincaid, James R. Dickens and the Rhetoric of Laughter. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971. Marcus, Steven. Dickens: From Pickwick to Dombey. Great Britain: Basic Books, 1965. Slater, Michael, ed. Dickens 1970. New York: Stein and Day Publishers, 1970. Slater, Michael. Dickens and Women. California: Stanford University Press, 1983. Stewart, Garrett. Dickens and the Trials of Imagination. Massachusettes: Harvard University Press, 1974. Welsh, Alexander. The City of Dickens. Oxford: Claredon Press, ...
- 3843: Great Expectations
- ... questioned about his first visit to Miss Havisham's house, he made up along elaborate story to make up for the terrible time he had in reality. Instead of telling how he played cards all day while being ridiculed and criticized by Estella and Miss Havisham, he claimed that they played with flags and swords all day after having wine and cake on gold plates.15 However, one special quality possessed by Pip that is rarely seen in a novel's hero is that he wrongs others instead of being hurt himself ... Kincaid, James R. Dickens and the Rhetoric of Laughter. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971. Marcus, Steven. Dickens: From Pickwick to Dombey. Great Britain: Basic Books, 1965. Slater, Michael, ed. Dickens 1970. New York: Stein and Day Publishers, 1970. Slater, Michael. Dickens and Women. California: Stanford University Press, 1983. Stewart, Garrett. Dickens and the Trials of Imagination. Massachusettes: Harvard University Press, 1974. Welsh, Alexander. The City of Dickens. Oxford: Claredon Press, ...
- 3844: Flowers For Algernon
- ... has fun with and who are very nice people. Meanwhile, Joe and Frank, ( his friends), are just continuously making fun of him, by making very bad jokes such as " Getting him up Ellen" and " What'd they do, Charlie, put some brains in?". Charlie later realises that Joe and Frank were just using him as a butt for all their bad jokes, and this angers him, for all he ever wanted ... cant even reed a book or rite good." Ultimately, Flowers for Algernon is a radio play about a failed scientific experiment but so much more as well. It gives us an insight into many modern day problems as well as the problems faced by intellectually challenged members of society, and the pressure on them to conform.
- 3845: Exiles By Carolyn Kay Steedman
- ... broken with a recently established tradition and on leaving school in 1927 didn't go into the sheds. She lied to me though when, at about the age of eight, I asked her what she'd done, and she said she'd worked in an office, done clerical work. Steedman then goes on to say how she had sought out and verified that this lie was true: . . .I talked to my grandmother and she, puzzled, told me ... feel the deliberate vagueness in her accounts of those years: "When did you meet daddy?"-"Oh, at a dance, at home." There were no photographs. Who came to London first? I wish now that I'd asked that question. And so Steedman goes on and on trying to reveal every possible negative thing she can dig up about her parents. She extends her father no more mercy either, as we ...
- 3846: Exiles
- ... broken with a recently established tradition and on leaving school in 1927 didn't go into the sheds. She lied to me though when, at about the age of eight, I asked her what she'd done, and she said she'd worked in an office, done clerical work. Steedman then goes on to say how she had sought out and verified that this lie was true: . . .I talked to my grandmother and she, puzzled, told me ... feel the deliberate vagueness in her accounts of those years: "When did you meet daddy?"-"Oh, at a dance, at home." There were no photographs. Who came to London first? I wish now that I'd asked that question. And so Steedman goes on and on trying to reveal every possible negative thing she can dig up about her parents. She extends her father no more mercy either, as we ...
- 3847: Educating Rita
- ... when Rita comes back from after summer she says that she was dead scared when she arrived a summer school. She didn't know anyone and she was going to come home on the first day but she didn't, she had acquired a confidence in herself. The old Rita would have left straight away. A few lines on she mentions that a tutor had approached her and asked her about ... its bad for him, this way it seems a subtle way of saying stop drinking although Frank is objectionable saying that Rita cannot reform him. "It'll kill y', Frank...just that I thought you'd started reforming yourself." Frank replies, "Under your influence? Yes Rita-if I repent and reform, what do I do when your influence is no longer her?" Another time is when she tells Frank to oil ...
- 3848: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... January 29, 1845, Poe’s most mystifying poem appeared, The Raven. This was a story that Poe wrote that helped us understand his feelings that were felt due to the loss of his wife(Double Day & Company). The words used to describe the raven in the story make the raven up to be death coming for him. The words such as "so faintly you cam tapping, tapping at my chamber door ... wife is because his marriage to her was one of the major high points of his life. In the poem To - - it seems that Poes peaks of the beauty of a bride on her wedding day and how she was so beautiful that it hurt her groom, these were feelings he felt on his wedding day. Pg. 2 The famous story The Black Cat ,Poe once again shows part of his many sides. In the story it talks about a man who is sick minded and is an alcoholic and ...
- 3849: Eating Gilbert Grape
- ... to Betty Carver. He delivers not only groceries, but himself. Their affair permits the audience to hear the older woman's comments about Gilbert: she manages to compliment yet insult him with "I knew you'd always be there" implying he is dependable and stable. Her last words to Gilbert were "If my boys turn out anything like you, that would be nice" demonstrating her high opinion of him and how ... we as the audience can see the anguish and guilt portrayed by Gilbert's facial expression. It could be described as an innocent child's face who has been caught opening a Christmas present a day early. The average person would have no worries shopping somewhere else, yet Gilbert is especially regrettable as he already told Lamson that he would "rather die" than shop at FoodLand. Mama Grape's death is ...
- 3850: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
- ... referring to not taking death lying down. The reader is given a sense of growing old. In the first stanza of the poem describe old age, "Old age should burn and rave at close of day" As you get old there is a daily struggle against death; you should fight for your life and take it day by day. In the second stanza the poet says "Though wise men at their end know dark is right, because their words had forked no lighting they don not go gentile into that good night" I ...
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