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    Ben Schumacher English II Honors Mr. Destefano 9/16/10 A Farewell to Arms Walking through the rain on a chilly night doesn’t exactly bring fond memories to the mind of many people. Hemingway wasn’t just using the weather in A Farewell to Arms just to add effect to his settings‚ it actually meant something to the book. Rain expresses deep reality‚ and depression of the story-book scenes to bring the characters back down to Earth‚ and sets a vision for the future of the plot by giving grim ideas

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    Brittany Patterson Period 5 English 3 Influence Being influenced can sometimes be an accident. To where everything around you is one big drama problem. In the novel The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ Nick being the narrator‚ “accidently” gets influenced to join a love circle‚ but the thing is that nothing actually involves real love. Just for money and all the luxuries they each have. Nick still seems to see himself as a good Midwestern boy with high standards for everyone he meets‚ including

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    novel The Great Gatsby‚ F.Scott Fitzerald criticizes the American society of the 1920´s for its emphasis on money‚ superficial relationships and obsession over class. Some characters in the novel are in love not with other characters but with their social status. . Jay Gatsby‚ a young man was not that wealthy‚ he actually came from a poor family from North Dokota. Gatsby was not fulfilled by his life‚ because what he wanted the most was to become part of a higher class. Gatsby met Daisy Buchannan

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    (journalistic or non-fiction)‚ as well as on original imagination‚ such as polemical works as well as autobiography‚ and reflective essays as well as belles-lettres. The Great Gatsby has the following particular characteristics of a literary texts: The first literary element of the novel is the plot‚ the protagonist is Jay Gatsby‚ a young‚ wealthy man in love with a society girl from his past. He tries to build a life with her but fate and bad luck turn tragic. The next key element is the

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    The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a romantic tragedy about a man named Nick Carraway who gets involved with the life of Jay Gatsby and his not-so secretive love for Daisy Buchanan. A critic named Lionel Trilling once said‚ “Jay Gatsby is to be thought of as standing for America itself.” This is proven to be true because Gatsby moves up in life and pursues his dream. He is an example for the American way because he fails at certain things and succeeds at others. Like

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    Name: Sherin Khawaja Class and Section: 11SD Q: Compare and contrast Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan. How are they similar and how do they differ? Given that Tom is portrayed negatively‚ why does Daisy choose to remain with him instead of leaving him for Gatsby? In the novel ‘The Great Gatsby’ written by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ two men‚ Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan‚ fight over Daisy‚ an upper-class woman from an old‚ wealthy family in the time after the first world war during the age known as

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    live in the East Egg are generally more well off and would most probably live a hedonistic lifestyle whereas the people in the West Egg are more likely to be less well-off and unable of living the hedonistic lifestyle‚ expect in rare occasions e.g. Gatsby. Continuing with the setting‚ the Buchanan’s house is also described as quite a luxury. ‘A sunken Italian garden‚ a half-acre of deep‚ pungent roses‚ and a snub-nosed motor-boat that bumped the tide offshore.’ This description shows the beauty

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    Determining whether Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms is a tragedy or romance is a tough task. As a novel set during World War I‚ it could be classified as a tragedy based on the depictions of warfare alone. However‚ behind that death and destruction‚ there is the very delicate‚ effervescent romance between the American Lieutenant Frederic Henry and the English Nurse Catherine Barkley. This all-consuming love (Catherine in particular seems to fade completely into it‚ saying “There isn’t any me. I’m

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    The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Penguin Books 1950 172 pages $8.99 The great American classic- The Great Gatsby‚ written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a story one man’s troubles and persistence for the girl of his dreams seen through the eyes of both the narrator and a character- Nick Carraway. The protagonist of the story‚ Jay Gatsby has waited 5 years for his “golden girl” to reappear in his life and is willing to do whatever it takes to get her. Party after party he hosts and no show

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    When reading Ernest Hemmingway’s A Farewell to Arms‚ I was struck by the vivid images he conveys with his descriptions of nature and the world. Hemmingway’s stark prose lends an air of bleakness to the story that truly puts the horrors and emotional turmoil of war into perspective. Although I was shocked and somewhat disappointed at the ending‚ I can see where Catherine’s death is necessary to complete the cycle and terminate the wartime romance just as the war must eventually terminate. I will say

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