hard-boiled detective fiction‚ The Long Goodbye‚ that served readers as an outlet from dark realities. In the novel The Long Goodbye‚ Chandler uses the tropes of corruption and femme fatale to demonstrate the social impacts they have had on the dark and pessimistic postwar era of the 1940s. Despite the disheartening historical context of The Long Goodbye‚ Raymond chandler uses Heroism the motif of heroism to contrast the prevailing darkness that The Great Depression and World War II had encroached on
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Survival was the main priority and others had to fend for themselves. One character even says to Marlowe‚ “She’s a grifter‚ shamus. I’m a grifter. We’re all grifters. So we sell each other out for a nickel...” (Chandler 102). Everyone felt this way and that made it even harder for Marlowe to trust his surroundings. Teaming with the police was already difficult but it was practically impossible considering they had fell victim to the corrupted
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Episode 207 — The one where Ross finds out Part I. Important Plots 207 Ross and his girlfriend Julie are about to adopting a cat. Everyone thinks that Chandler puts on a little weight‚ Monica volunteers to train him. Rachel gets a date with Michael that Monica set for her‚ bet she can’t pay attention on him but keep bothered by Ross’s and Julie’s cat. During the date‚ Rachel calls Ross and leaves him a message saying she is over him. When Ross hears the message he is taken aback that Rachel
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The Big Sleep‚ by Raymond Chandler‚ was written in 1939. It is a story about a private detective in Los Angeles who takes a case about blackmail‚ but the case would soon develop into a big ordeal with murder‚ corruption‚ and kidnapping. The first two paragraphs of the story provide a great introduction to Marlowe‚ the private investigator‚ and great information about him. The first two paragraphs also give a lot of information the reader can use to better understand the plot later in the story. The
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the deeper and scarier truth about human nature and desires. Chandler’s The Big Sleep portrays ambitious characters committing real crimes that are mentioned in the article “The Simple Art of Murder”. According to Chandler‚ good detective fiction comprises of real life situations. Chandler tried to fabricate a realistic situation so that the novel is more applicable [to its time] by using his experiences and knowledge about the world in the 1930s. General Sternwood hires Marlowe to investigate a case
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There are some television shows that run for a couple of seasons and then get cut‚ then there are shows that make a person think ‘how is it even possible to run for that many seasons?’ Friends is one of those shows. Friends has been a huge part of my childhood‚ my parents watched it so I watched it‚ we would view the new episode every week. There were new episodes coming out for the first eight years of my life‚ and of course I continued to watch reruns after that. I remember watching the final episode
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Chandler Bing has a very interesting personality that is largely caused by his childhood memories. Chandler was born April 8‚ 1968‚ he is the son of his mother Nora Tyler Bing‚ who was an erotic writer‚ and his father Charles “Helena Handbasket” Bing‚ who liked to cross-dress‚ and was a burlesque star who performed in an all-male show‚ “Viva Las Gay-gas” in Las Vegas‚ which is where he lives. Chandler’s childhood experiences has a huge role in determining his personality‚ while growing up his mother
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their twenties living in Manhattan. Together‚ the friends search for love‚ success‚ and happiness as they make their best attempt at navigating through adulthood. The show features six main characters: Rachel Green‚ Monica Geller‚ Joey Tribbiani‚ Chandler Bing‚ Phoebe Buffay‚ and Ross Geller. Episodes portray the friends’ romantic involvements‚ career issues‚ and humorous encounters with each other. The group helps one another take on life’s obstacles with a touch of humor as the group slowly approaches
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TORT QUESTION 1: A seven-year-old boy followed his dog into Mr. Howe’s backyard. The boy fell into a large hole dug by Mr. Howe in preparation for a tree that had been ordered. The boy broke his arm in the fall. At the hospital a doctor employed there for four years treated the boy. The doctor did not set the boy’s arm because he failed to see on the x-ray and indication that the arm was broken. The arm healed improperly. When the boy kept complaining‚ his parents took him to the family doctor
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glimpse of other relationships as well. Sibling relationship is portrayed through Monica and Ross. Rachel and Ross show the ups and downs that one goes through when he/she is in love. Through this paper we also look into how a platonic relationship of Chandler and Monica turns into something as big as marriage. We learn about the parent-child relationships as they are represented in the show. It mirrors the western concept of parenting and parental relationships. This paper looks into relationships mainly
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