The American Dream is dead The main theme of “the great Gatsby” is that the great dream of American is dead. The American dream is defined by people as “The belief that everyone in the United States has the chance to be successful‚ rich‚ and happy if they work hard enough”. Three features of the American Dream are shown as that people can make their dream come true‚ everyone has the same opportunity to achieve their goals and life should become better and richer by their own effort. However‚ readers
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He is often seen wearing t-shirts with gamer slogans. In City of Lost Souls‚ Simon describes himself as being "hipster" but his best friend‚ Clary‚ tells him he is a geek. Simon is the only character to begin his life as a mundane‚ but in City of Ashes he is transformed into a vampire. Simon is quirky and caring‚ often putting other people before
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desolate plain‚ a gray valley where New York’s ashes are dumped. The men who live here work at shovelling up the ashes. The commuter train that runs between West Egg and New York passes through the valley‚ making several stops along the way. One day‚ as Nick and Tom are riding the train into the city‚ Tom forces Nick to follow him out of the train at one of these stops. Tom leads Nick to George Wilson’s garage‚ which sits on the edge of the valley of ashes. Tom’s lover Myrtle is Wilson’s wife. Wilson
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ideals by perpetuating a rigid class structure that excludes newcomers from its upper reaches‚ much like the feudal aristocracy that America had left behind. Valley of ashes: gray industrial dumping ground between west egg and NYC Tom: aristocrat East Egg represents the old aristocracy‚ West Egg the newly rich‚ the valley of ashes the moral and social decay of America‚ and New York City the uninhibited‚ amoral quest for money and pleasure. Additionally‚ the East is connected to the moral decay and
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obvious that whoever says that‚ obviously is not so called “street smart”. Any ordinary person is capable of evil acts and the Milgram‚ Ashe‚ and Stanford experiments can back up theories such as this. Milgram was as experiment that was made to demonstrate how people obey the orders of a superior in a situation in which the results were very interesting. The Ashe experiment served the purpose of showing how people give in to peer pressure in even non-complicated situations and results are important
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They own a small gas station and general store in the middle of the Valley of Ashes. They represent a lower status of citizens but do not quite live an unprosperous life. They have relations with upper class citizens but are not directly part of them. Tom is having an affair with Myrtle Wilson which is an example of a relation
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This is how the film Smoke Signals starts‚ with a monologue from Thomas BuildsTheFire‚ who was orphaned in a fire in 1976. Twenty years later‚ Thomas and his childhood friend Victor Joseph embark on a journey from the Couer D’Alene reservation in Idaho to retrieve the ashes of Victor’s father from Phoenix‚ Arizona. As the child of an abusive father‚ Victor is bitter and full of anger. Throughout the film‚ we see flashbacks of Arnold’s treatment of his son that help us to understand Victor. Arnold tries to love his son
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By giving Anu these lines‚ Ambai reveals to the reader that Anu is absolutely traumatized by this occurrence‚ and felt as if the ashes in the urn were somehow still connected to the lost child. The author reveals this instance to portray to the reader whyAnu is the way that she has portrayed her to this point in the story. Finally‚ Ambai uses the yellow fish to show Anu’s sense of
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realisation of the ‘American Dream’. Fitzgerald uses a number of techniques to tell the story in chapter 2. Chapter 2 opens with a detailed and very graphic description of ‘The Valley of Ashes’ delivered by Nick Carraway‚ an extremely poor and ash ridden area between West Egg and New York City‚ ‘…where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens’. The image really depicts the two worlds‚ as this is a place of industry and is the polar opposite of West Egg with all its’ newly
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In the book The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ there are numerous writing techniques that enrich the story and build realism. For example‚ Fitzgerald incorporates multiple references and allusions to the economic state of the time period in which the story takes place. Fitzgerald mentions bonds‚ parties‚ alcohol‚ bootleggers‚ and class disparities in his writing to convey the state of the economy during the 1920s. In the United States during the twenties‚ the economy was flourishing. World
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