At the end of the novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ George Wilson murders Jay Gatsby with a pistol. Most people would come to the conclusion that George Wilson is to blame for the death of Gatsby‚ but if we dig a little deeper‚ one could come to a different conclusion. I am of the opinion that Tom and Daisy are the true culprits of this crime. Later in the story‚ we learn that Daisy fell in love with Gatsby before she fell in love with Tom. After they met‚ Gatsby had to return to war‚ and because Daisy was
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The speaker of the ‘The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner’ is a young soldier who went to the World War II. It can be inferred that while he was home with his family‚ he had to go to the war. He was assinged to an aircraft. The line ‘’And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.’’ is a metaphor. We can say that he was a hitman in that line if we consider the shape of the aircrafts. In the first line‚ the age is emphasized. It seems he had a family and he lived with them. We can say that the
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In the play‚ “Death of a Salesman‚” we see many different themes. We learn that there are times when we expect something to happen‚ but the complete opposite happens instead. We are told about a man that no longer cares about his life and attempts to commit suicide‚ but fails. Throughout the story we believe we know why he wanted to end his life‚ but do we really? The setting of the story takes place in what seems to be a normal family environment. Immediately we see that Willy is a putting his
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In the midst of a fiery excitement‚ a small young boy emerges out of a dusky tropical rainforest. The boy is mistaken for the prey of the boys and is mercilessly speared to death by the crowd. He held the key to their salvation‚ why didn’t they seem to care? Were they just ignorant or was something inside them persuading them against salvation? What diverted their motives? Who is this boy and what was their prey? Simon is set apart from the others early in the book as we notice how he is not
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Two different men‚ with one shared dream‚ and both of which have different outcomes. In the plays‚ A Raisin in the Sun by Arthur Miller and Death of a Salesman by Lorraine Hansberry‚ the two major characters‚ Walter and Willy are important people with similar personal struggles and a shared dream of making it rich. The characters have similar struggles‚ with the outcome of them pursuing their dreams ending similarly. The characters of Walter and Willy have many common characteristics. Both Willy
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“One death is a tragedy; one million deaths is a statistic” It is easy to personalise one death – we can all imagine someone we know dying. However‚ beyond 100 or so‚ the number of deaths becomes unfathomable and we can only think of it in an abstract‚ conceptual sense. That is to say‚ we can understand that a million people dying is a terrible thing‚ but we do not feel the amount of sorrow and pain that we feel if one person living relatively near to us dies. Therefore‚ we see one secluded
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Death of a young son by drowning” by Margaret Atwood conveys the story of the emotions of a parent losing a child and not being able to help them. “...on a voyage of discovery into the land I floated on but could not touch to claim‚” in this poem Atwood takes the reader on an emotional journey using literary devices such as imagery‚ personification and metaphors to express the depth of her feelings and give a larger sense of what its like for the reader to understand roughly what the speaker must
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Imagine living in a life where getting killed for a matter of honor is acceptable. In Chronicle of a Death Foretold‚ Santiago gets murdered by the Vicario brothers for allegedly taking the virginity of their sister‚ Angela Vicario; where death is the only solution to uphold family honor. Throughout this story‚ Gabriel Garcia Marquez depicts the primary themes of history and time through the character roles and events that led up to Santiago’s murder by using the setting and non-linear style to show
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I think that taking these precautions would be considered a natural reaction in my opinion‚ because Prince Prospero doesn’t want to become a victim of The Red Death that is currently taking over his land and killing everyone off that it comes into contact with. Most any and everyone would try their best and attempt to do whatever is necessary to keep themselves and loved ones locked away from becoming infected with a plague‚ proceeding that they have the ability and obligatory materials required
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The first poem I choose to review was “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” by Randall Jarrell on p. 583. The first 4 lines are images that depict a young man who goes off to war‚ to find himself in the ball turret of a fighter plane. The time of this section is almost one of disbelief‚ as the narrator treats the experience as if it’s a dream. The final line of the poem‚ however‚ changes all of that‚ because the real tone of the poem is one of indifference toward war. After the ball turret gunner
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