to Native American lore‚ was consumed by a sacred fire‚ and resurrected itself from its ashes. Victor‚ the protagonist‚ has his deceased father cremated after his untimely death. The story unfolds as Victor and Thomas travel to Phoenix to retrieve the ashes of Victor’s father. After they arrive in Phoenix‚ Victor‚ and his friend Thomas‚ retrieve two large boxes of ashes. Within the story’s context‚ the ashes symbolize transformation‚ especially the
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The valley of ashes This close analysis is based around the passage at the beginning of chapter II of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The word ‘Egg’ in West Egg symbolises new life and renewal‚ the word ‘New’ in New York also symbolises similar ideas of a young‚ modernistic place. This is appropriate as the valley of ashes is the geographic midpoint between the suburbs and the city‚ between the two yet not part of either; as it is the home of the people left behind in the Roaring Twenties
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George for granted. Myrtle just wants to have the money and the wealth that is why she is having that affair with Tom because George can’t support all her desperate needs since they are very poor to start with hence they are living in the valley of ashes. This personality trait is displayed everywhere throughout the
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People hold different things to be symbolic. Dove and peace‚ a rose and love; they are all simple things but widely symbolic. In the Great Gatsby‚ written by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ he uses symbolism in the form of his characters and to develop a theme‚ the declination of the American Dream. Another theme that ties into the American Dream is class structure‚ which is demonstrated by the geography in the text. All of the characters are symbolic of different classes in American Society‚ from the richest
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Joyce writes‚ "to the back doors of the dark dripping gardens where odors arose from the ash pits.” In the bible‚ there is a well-known phrase‚ “ashes to ashes.” The phrase describes how people are born from ashes and turn into ashes when they die. When the boy lost his innocence‚ it was similar to him dying at the tree in the Garden of Eden‚ so the ashes in the garden were the death of the boy’s innocence. To
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nk’s father can be considered the antagonist of Angela’s Ashes‚ because his actions keep the McCourts destitute. (As antagonist is a character or obstacle in a literary work that opposes the protagonist and causes the major conflict.) While his family suffers from crippling hunger‚ and his children contract diseases caused by weakness and malnutrition‚ Malachy drinks excessively and comes home roaring that his sons must be ready to die for Ireland. Frank’s father drinks himself into a stupor partially
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courtesy bay” (9)‚ but more significantly in the way the two societies contrast. Along with East and West Egg‚ Fitzgerald creates another symbol where a dark and lifeless community lives: the Valley of Ashes‚ “a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally‚ with a transcendent effort‚ of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air” (22‚4.) With vivid settings Fitzgerald
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In The Great Gatsby setting represents the characters personalities‚ all the main locations for example Valley of Ashes‚ West Egg‚ and East egg all describe the characters in some way. Gatsby lived in West Egg where all the very rich people and the new emergence of the new rich lived. Gatsby described West Egg because he was very rich‚ was young‚ had a ginormous home with glorious parties. Tom and Daisy Buchanan lived in East Egg “Across the courtesy bay by the white palaces of fashionable East Egg
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Throughout the book “The Great Gatsby”‚ many symbols are introduced in order to illustrate the many relevant themes within it. One of the first symbols introduced in “The Great Gatsby” is The Valley of Ashes‚ “a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally‚ with a transcendent effort‚ of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air”. Gray‚ the most pertinent color within
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