involved a gloomy‚ wistful‚ and desperate tone throughout the novel. Despite the novel’s setting in the most enchanting society America has experienced‚ Fitzgerald established a gloomy tone through the dismal diction used to describe the Valley of Ashes and the decrepit eerie billboard overlooking the whole sad area. For example‚ he established a cheerless tone by
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New York the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it... so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat...” The Valley of Ashes lies between West Egg and New York. The stark contrast between the wealth of West Egg and the poverty of the Valley of Ashes is a representation of the inequality of the 1920s. The time is important in Fitzgerald’s work‚ because the inequity of the 1920’s‚ with all of its imperfections
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Great Gatsby’? The introduction of Tom’s mistress‚ Myrtle‚ in Chapter Two of ‘The Great Gatsby’ plays as the focal point of the chapter. It begins with Tom and Nick travelling into New York on the train‚ however they get off in the Valley of Ashes‚ a derelict setting between West Egg‚ East Egg and New York. The pair stop at a mechanics‚ and speak with the man who is married to Myrtle‚ Wilson. Myrtle‚ Tom and Nick then go to their New York apartment‚ and have a party with a few other guests.
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Diffin 1 The Selection Process‚ Gas chambers‚ and Death 1 Diffin 2 Table of Contents Transportation To Camp 4 Sorting Jews 5 Conditions 5-6 Gas chambers and persuasion 6 Citations 7 2 Diffin 3 Outline I. Transportation to gas camp A. Train 1. Thousands at a time B. Truckloads C. Forced to walk 1. Chained to horse or wagon 2. Jews shot on sight II. Sorting Jews A. Pregnant women B
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Comparison and Contrast Essay Smoke Signals and “This is What It Means to Say Phoenix” Smoke Signals is the story of two Native Americans‚ named Thomas and Victor‚ who grew up together and go off on an adventure to find who they really are. Thomas is young and lives with his grandmother‚ because his parents died in a fire when he was a baby; as we later find out‚ Victor’s father Arnold started the fire. Thomas lives by the morals and ethics of a traditional Native American‚ following the beliefs
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than thought. The extensive use of Color is key in The Great Gatsby and helps find out who people really are. Gray is a color used in The Great Gatsby that describes hopelessness. 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
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Jesica Jurj Mrs. Tancredi Honors English 10 May 12 2016 Gatsby: Story of Symbolism Sometimes a symbol is all you need to say a thousand words. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby the lavish lifestyle of many of the characters ultimately leads to major consequences as their actions play a part in the crumbling American Dream. The tragic story of love‚ greed‚ and secrets exploits the toxic lifestyle of Gatsby‚ Daisy‚ and others in both West and East Egg. The significance of the many
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The interpretation of the American Dream to society includes happiness and prosperity. In The Great Gatsby‚ author F.Scott Fitzgerald demonstrates the different views of the American Dream through the symbols of the green light‚ the great valley of ashes and the yellow car. Fitzgerald uses these symbols to show love‚ differences in the American Dream‚ the poverty and hopelessness‚ and ultimately the death of the American Dream. In The Great Gatsby‚ there is a green light at the end of Daisy’s
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destruction. The biggest reference to fire is at the end of the novel when Granger explains to Montag the meaning and existence of the Phoenix. Granger explains that every few hundred years‚ a Phoenix will appear and burn himself to ashes. The Phoenix would then spring out from the ashes to be born again. Granger compares this reference to mankind and how it destroys himself‚ only to be rebuilt. The Phoenix is a symbol of renewal. A major passage in the novel is when the firemen go to Mrs. Hudson’s home.
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It is the ground for which all of New York’s ashes are dumped‚ and those who live there must shovel the ashes frequently. George and Myrtle live just on the cusp of the valley‚ and this is symbolic of the fact that they reside in the shadow of the
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