the train. Tom takes Nick and Myrtle to New York City‚ to the Morningside Heights apartment he keeps for his affair. Here they have an impromptu party with Myrtle’s sister‚ Catherine‚ and a couple named McKee. Catherine has bright red hair‚ wears a great deal of makeup‚ and tells Nick that she has heard that Jay Gatsby is the nephew or cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm‚ the ruler of Germany during World War I. The McKees‚ who live downstairs‚ are a horrid couple: Mr. McKee is pale and feminine‚ and Mrs. McKee
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Tyler Freas Mr. Fiorentino Academic English January 7‚ 2013 Into the Fire Everywhere you go there are restaurants‚ bars and diners and everyone that goes there all have one thing in mind‚ food. There is a team of people in the kitchen who help prepare and cook your food to order but the person who runs the entire kitchen is the head chef. In ten years I will be a head chef at a restaurant. To be a head chef you have to be responsible and be able to work in high pressure situations
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Dickens uses this description of the Havisham Manor to give Pip’s impression of surrealness surrounding Miss Havisham and her house. Pip has just been apprenticed to Joe and goes to visit Miss Havisham‚ and‚ as he walks home‚ he reflects on the decrepitness and the age of the house and its contents. As the sentence progresses‚ Dickens chooses to order his descriptions in increasing intensity of spookiness and specificity‚ seemingly ‘zooming’ in to smaller and smaller objects and ending with the
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Once he has met Estella‚ the young maiden who drives his childhood fixation‚ his way of life progressively becomes more apparent making his antipathy towards himself and others more apparent than ever. Meeting the young maiden quickly makes him regret being a “simple” blacksmith and regretting that Mr.Joe raised him so. On page (67) when they’re playing cards Pip calls them Jacks instead of knaves much to Estella’s entertainment and distaste‚ ostracizing his lack of knowledge. This leads Pip to
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they are all simple things but widely symbolic. In the Great Gatsby‚ written by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ he uses symbolism in the form of his characters and to develop a theme‚ the declination of the American Dream. Another theme that ties into the American Dream is class structure‚ which is demonstrated by the geography in the text. All of the characters are symbolic of different classes in American Society‚ from the richest to the poorest. The Great Gatsby offers a peek to all the hopes and dreams of
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analyzing and comparing The Catcher in the Rye and Great Expectations‚ by J.D. Salinger and Charles Dickens respectively‚ one usually stops and ponders‚ what can these two novels possibly have in common? Well I can tell you‚ quite a lot. To begin with‚ both are fictional autobiographies‚ narrated personally by the protagonists‚ that is Holden and Pip. However‚ regardless of the fact that they are both narrated in the first person‚ one‚ Great Expectations is a full life story‚ and you can tell by the very
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In the novel Great Expectations‚ the author Charles Dickens uses the first person narrative throughout the novel. The first person narrative is the main character‚ Pip. However‚ in this book the first person narrative comes in a retrospective form‚ with Pip looking back on his life. The retrospective point of view is key in this story for the reaction of the readers to the plot. In Great Expectations‚ the retrospective first person point of view makes the main character Pip unreliable‚ makes the
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Writing just a few years after the end of the Great War‚ Fitzgerald takes as his theme the hedonism of a materialistic society in which spiritual values are dead. His eponymous hero throws parties on Sundays (to which ‘the world and its mistress’ flocked) because he hopes that Daisy‚ the object of his faith‚ hope and love‚ will come to him. In her absence‚ he stretches out his arms towards the green light at the end of her dock and‚ as Fitzgerald makes repeated references to it‚ that light
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Great Expectations: Injustices and Poor Conditions Committed On Women and Children Great Expectations‚ authored by Victorian novelist Charles Dickens‚ is considered one of his finest works of literature. It was indicative of Dickens’s strong feelings for injustices and poor conditions committed on women and children of that time. Through the main character‚ Pip‚ Dickens’s demonstrated the compassion he felt for children. Most readers‚ like myself‚ are able to associate Pip’s experiences with
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The Great Gatsby‚ written by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ portrays the Jazz Age and the people living during the time. The reader watches the unfortunate story of the mysterious Jay Gatsby and his love for Daisy Buchanan through the eyes of Nick Carraway. His semi-involved character witnesses the events unfold right in front of his eyes as he lives next door to Gatsby. Critics often regard this tale of love‚ betrayal‚ and immoral living an essential classic for all high-school students. The cover provides
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