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- 10691: Gatsby's Pursuit of the American Dream
- ... get what they want. Later, as we see in the Plaza Hotel, Jay still believes that Daisy loves him. He is convinced of this as is shown when he takes the blame for Myrtle's death. "Was Daisy driving?" "Yes...but of course I'll say I was." (151) He also watches and protects Daisy as she returns home. "How long are you going to wait?" "All night if necessary." (152 ...
- 10692: The Great Gatsby: Portraying A Morose Tone
- ... soaking. They describe a motor hearse as ". . . horribly black and wet." A hearse normally portrays a solemn feeling, but the words horribly, black, and wet allow the reader to feel the misery and mournfulness of death. The ground is soggy as someone splashes through it. You can smell the wet turf and feel the saturation beneath the feet. The use of water in the story aids the reader in understanding the ...
- 10693: Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony
- ... the white people were extremely fearful of Indians. He said, “I was at the World’s fair in St. Louis, Missouri, the year they had Geronimo there on display. The white people were scared to death of him. Some of them even wanted him in leg irons” (Silko 122). Instead of appreciating Geronimo for his unique culture, he was disrespected and treated as a freak show exhibit. The white people did ...
- 10694: The Changing of the America Through Literature
- ... about Buck didn’t even know why or how the feud even started, or even how long it had been going on. Also, Huck came across a town which a man, Boggs was shot to death just because he liked to talk about another man, Colonel Shepburn. There is no need for people to just shoot each other without a justified reason. The general way of thinking was to just use ...
- 10695: The Pearl by Steinbeck
- ... pearl and had the chance to be wealthy and accepted by society which is what he has always dreamed. Instead the pearl was a tragedy and only brought bad things to him such as the death of his son. When he threw the pearl in the ocean at the end of story he realizes that their are more important things in like than being rich like family values and traditons. Kino ...
- 10696: Suffering in Crime and Punishment
- ... His feelings haven’t changed about his crime, he feels bad at not being able to living up to his own ideas of greatness. He grows depressed only when he learns of his mother’s death. Raskolnikov still hasn’t found any reason to feel remorse for his crimes. He takes Siberia as his punishment, because of how annoying it is to go through all these formalities, and ridicularities that it ...
- 10697: Societies Clenching Paws
- ... Countess Ellen Olenska and Daisy Miller struggle to gain the acceptance of the wealth in their respective societies. Their search for the wealth of friends during the works both leads them to discontents and even death. But, the two characters differ in their wants. One of the strange connections between the two works is the location and the mentality that is brought with it. In The Age of Innocence the setting ...
- 10698: The Storm by Kate Chopin
- ... very shortly after Chopin had completed "The Awakening", "the boldest treatment so far in American literature of the sensuous, independant woman" (Seyersted 1969, p164). "The Storm" was not published, however, until well after Chopin's death, doubtless because of the as-yet unparalleled sensuousness of the story and its characters. In his critical biography Kate Chopin, Per Seyersted argues that "The Storm" is objective in its portrayal of human sexuality and ...
- 10699: An Interview With Jane Austin
- ... for when you wrote Wuthering Heights? Emily: When I wrote it, I didn’t intend for it to be read by certain people. Many of us today still go through the same issues. Love, relationships, death, marriage, abuse are all still around today, I assume. Many have also commented on how Wuthering Heights was considered a woman’s book. That is far from the truth. I talk of woman as well ...
- 10700: As For Me And My House and Surfacing: Heros
- ... their own. The conflict that this causes is made all the more palpable by the fact that Mr. Bentley is Horizon's minister. Religion is a system of beliefs which contextualizes difficult subjects such as death, pain and suffering. According to Jordan Peterson it is human tendency to model facts, value is placed on these facts and we systematically assess what each fact signifies. This psychological process eliminates anxiety and fear ...
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