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    1926 novel The Great Gatsby or Jane Austen’s 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice. Within these novels it can be seen that similar semiotic techniques have been employed to foreshadow specific plot points in the narrative‚ particularly when noticing their use of place and setting. Thus‚ both Fitzgerald and Austen utilise the place and setting of their novels as a catalyst or mode of attraction for the characters by using specific grammatical choices. Throughout this essay the metaphorical use of place‚ particularly

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald uses many symbols in The Great Gatsby to show the reader what live was like in the early 1900s. Some symbols show Gatsby is greedy. Others show things like how Daisy and Tom are old money while Gatsby is new money. Fitzgerald also utilizes water details and imagery to both mirror and foreshadow tragic events in The Great Gatsby. When a body of water is depicted in the novel‚ something dreadful is foreshadowed. Bodies of water appear in different sizes‚ yet they all still foreshadow

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    Chapter 1 1. How does Dickens use setting to convey the mood right at the opening? He uses words like marshy country called the medway. River missed with seawater‚Wet lots of trees‚Graveyard‚ all are dark and strong words. 2. What does Dickens’ description of the first convict tell us about him? That he is scared and is a convict. 3. What is surprising about the narrative point-of- view Dickens has adopted? He says it not like how it happend but how it was in is mind. 4. How does Dickens contrast

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    In “The Use of Spies‚” of Sun Tuz’s The Art of War there are countless reasoning’s as to why a spy is a spy. In the film “Goldeneye‚” these reasoning’s are showed countlessly. One is early in the movie when James Bond and his newly girlfriend is taking a nice drive through the mountains but suddenly his ex-girlfriend appears. She antagonizes him to race through the mountains which he does. Sun Tuz’s says “They cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness (39).” This is shown

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    “So we beat on‚ boat against the current borne back ceaselessly into the past” (Fitzgerald 182). A powerful quote that F. Scott Fitzgerald uses in The Great Gatsby. This quote is greatly associated with Gatsby and how he is trying to strive to succeed the American Dream. There were three colors that help exemplifies the American Dream and that are linked with Gatsby would be blue which represents fantasy‚ yellow signifies falsehood‚ red symbolizes danger and anger. As blue embodies the fantasy and

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    Charlie Chaplin born Charles Spencer Chaplin‚ was the most beloved actor of his time. He was born in England on 16th of April 1889. In 1940‚ when the world was still trying to use the policy of appeasement towards Adolf Hitler‚ Charlie Chaplin wrote‚ produced‚ directed and starred in his first speaking movie‚ The Great Dictator. The movie was a satirical depiction of Hitler and the Nazi party. The movie is set in a time and place similar to the one where Hitler had risen to power. Adolf Hitler

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    Bryan Cubillos Per. 2 Weather Does weather affect the mood of situations? In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald there are moments where the weather sets a mood or follows the emotion of the novel. Many people Change their mood in certain weather conditions and in this novel the weather is symbolic for emotion or mood in the novel. Fitzgerald uses the weather to help set the mood of several situation or emotion throughout the novel. Weather is symbolic in this novel as seen

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    Stressing again the use of image as meaning for children‚ color plays an important role in the overall reading of children’s literature‚ as well as Anderson’s film. Moebius observes that colors play in integral‚ often coded role in picture books: Apart from the traditional associations of certain colours with certain moods or feelings‚ and apart from the association of bright colours with exhilaration and discovery‚ and of dark colours with disappointment and confusion‚ we need to be sensitive to

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    beginning of the story he is at a marsh country down by the river. 2. Briefly describe the convict. What evidence is there that the convict has "human" qualities and is not merely a criminal? The convict is a fearful man all in coarse gray‚ with a great iron on his leg‚ no hat‚ with broken shoes‚ and had an old rag tied around his head. The evidence that supports that the convict has human qualities is he somewhat shows compassion when seeing Pip’s dead parents so he does not rob him he just scares

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    Film Critic Hossein Aghababa stated in moviequotesandmore that “The movie (the great debaters) is explicit enough on the issue of racial discrimination.” Throughout The Great Debaters (2007)‚ Denzel Washington illustrates racial discrimination as the main theme. The setting of the movie‚ the nature of the characters‚ and the high stance of education are some of the primary examples that represent the main theme. The film is set around a predominantly black college named Wiley College in Texas 1935

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