The two articles “ Retrieved information” and “The follower” prove best how people change their personalities and behaviors to fit in. Jack‚ the narrator of the article “ The follower” describes meeting his neighbors‚ Frankie who had just been catapulted into his yard by his brother Scary Gary “The first moment I saw him in pain‚ it occurred to me‚ I wanted to be in pain‚ too.” Jack was a person who did not get into a lot of trouble. Then‚ he started hanging out with his new neighbors‚ he kept
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alive. In “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix‚ Arizona”‚ by Sherman Alexie an odd boy named Thomas Builds-the-Fire holds the title of storyteller. This short story is about a journey Thomas takes with his old friend Victor to claim Victor’s father’s ashes from Phoenix‚ Arizona and bring them back to their reservation in Spokane. The story ultimately portrays the strain between Victors and Thomas’s friendship. Alexie uses Thomas and his friendship with Victor to show that not everyone conforms to what
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want the government to control their opinions and thoughts. He ends up being a fugitive from the law and falling victim to the government. His only choose now is to run away from society and wait for the civilization to collapse and build from the ashes. V is a victim of the law all his life. He enjoys his job which is really fighting the government and trying to restore the freedoms that the government has stripped them from. He spends his life using
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2009 Like A Bird In the story “A Worn Path”‚ Eudora Welty compares the character of Phoenix Jackson to the phoenix‚ a mythological bird. The phoenix is a bird that lives for five hundred years‚ bursts into fire at death‚ and then is reborn from the ashes. Certain references‚ images‚ and events in the story show how Phoenix Jackson is related to the phoenix. There are several instances in the story that prove she is like a bird. Phoenix Jackson is making a long trip to town. Welty mentions that Phoenix
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"The Great Gatsby" is a book full of symbolism. On a large‚ political scope the book itself is a symbol of the materialism of the twenties. Many of the symbols in the book are given their meaning by the characters - who are symbols in and of themselves. To make this last point‚ it is only necessary to look at Gatsby himself. Gatsby is‚ in a nutshell‚ the American Dream corrupted. He has worked hard to obtain everything he owns‚ often using illegal means to do so‚ but can enjoy none of it because
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This book‚ The Great Gatsby‚ written by F Scott. Fitzgerald in 1925‚ is a novel dedicated to the inhabitants of wealth‚ power‚ and social status. It was mainly about this astonishingly wealthy man known as Jay Gatsby who dreamed of revitalizing the love that was once present between him and Daisy Buchanan. Fitzgerald has written this story as a connection to his past life to show that acquiring the American Dream is not always accessible. Throughout the story‚ the author has embedded many symbolic
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Entry 2 Chapter 2 describes a valley of ashes. This valley is the intersection of the city and the suburbs. A dark gray place with an advertisement with large blue eyes which belong to Doctor T. J. Eckleburg. There is a train that runs through the Valley of Ashes. Nick and Tom are riding the train into the city one day when Tom forces Nick to follow him off the train at one of the stops between West Egg and New York. It was at this stop in the valley of ashes where Nick would meet Tom’s lover Myrtle
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Mohandas Karmanchad Gandhi‚ who is also known as Mahatma Gandhi ‚was the pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism. Gandhi was born on 2nd October 1869 in Porbandar‚ a coastal town in Bombay. Gandhi was raised in a Hindu bania community in coastal Gujarat. During his life time he practised to be a good Hindu by obeying all the laws and helping others. As well his devotion‚ his goal was to help the poor and protest oppressive taxation and discrimination. Through his efforts he led India to independence
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This was best illustrated by the setting of the story. The Valley of Ashes‚ where the Wilsons lived‚ was an extremely poor town where the industrial waste from the city was dumped. Everyone in the town worked extremely hard‚ yet continued to live in misery and destitution. The Valley of Ashes represents the failure of the American Dream and is a place where the lower classes of society were neglected and forgotten. “A white ashen
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What Death Will Take In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth‚ the protagonist Macbeth converses with Seyton before his ineluctable end‚ which occurs during his epic grapple for power with Macduff. During this exchange‚ Macbeth states‚ "My way of life/ Is fall’n into the sere‚ the yellow leaf" (5.3.25). Overall‚ as it is shown in his vicious attempts to rise to power‚ Macbeth has little regard for death‚ yet in this moment Shakespeare provides a glimpse of the misery and uncertainty that surround his demise
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