Summary: The year is 1941‚ and Nick Freestone lives in London‚ which is frequently getting bombed‚ because of the London Blitz during World War II. His mother decides that it is too dangerous for Nick to live in London‚ so she sends him off to Burma to stay at his father’s elephant plantation in the jungle. As soon as he arrives in Burma‚ he feels at home‚ but sadly‚ the war in Southeast Asia has also started to get violent‚ and the Japanese invade Burma. Just after Nick arrives‚ Rangoon‚ the
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look at things. 2. What do we learn about Nick Carraway in the introductory section of the novel? He is upper middle class and went to college. 3. In discussing East Egg and West Egg‚ Nick states‚ “To the wingless a more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.” Indicate what the dissimilarities” Attitude‚ east egg is traditional; west egg is the new rich. 4. might be. Compare the homes of Nick‚ Gatsby and the Buchanans. How does each home
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for the story‚ which was the first of his mature stories to appear in an American periodical. His original title for the story was "The Matadors." Hemingway included the story in his 1927 collection Men Without Women‚ and it also appears in The Nick Adams Stories (1972). "The Killers" remains one of Hemingway’s most anthologized stories because it is representative of Hemingway’s style and the subjects that would occupy his work throughout his career. These subjects include the meaninglessness
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Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is Nick Carraway’s narrative of his experiences with Jay Gatsby‚ his wealthy and mysterious neighbor in West Egg‚ Long Island. Set in 1922‚ a turbulent time in American history‚ Nick is a veteran of World War One who moved from his native Midwest to New York City to sell bonds. This novel focuses on Nick’s intense admiration for Gatsby who befriends Nick and leads him through a strange new world. In their travels‚ Nick and Gatsby encounter minorities and although
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Title: Nick Carraway as an Unreliable Narrator Author(s): Kent Cartwright Publication Details: Papers on Language and Literature 20.2 (Spring 1984): p218-232. Source: Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Linda Pavlovski. Vol. 157. Detroit: Gale‚ 2005. From Literature Resource Center. Document Type: Critical essay Bookmark: Bookmark this Document Full Text: COPYRIGHT 2005 Gale‚ COPYRIGHT 2007 Gale‚ Cengage Learning [(essay date spring 1984) In the following essay‚ Cartwright discusses
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The Great Gatsby – Chapter 1 Questions 1. How does Nick describe himself at the beginning of the book? Why do you think Fitzgerald chose him to be the narrator? a. Nick sees himself as reserved‚ nonjudgmental (which makes him slightly hopeful)‚ but he can only be tolerant of others for so long. b. To use Nick as the narrator places psychic distance to the story. Nick is part of the action‚ yet he is not one of the principals. He shares some of the emotions and is in a position to interpret those
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The strangest part of his desire for uniformity‚ and ‘moral attention’‚ is that he also exempts Gatsby from all blame‚ even while he “represented everything for which I [Nick] have an unaffected scorn” (p. 2). He says of Gatsby‚ again at the start: “...there was something gorgeous about him‚ some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life… It was an extraordinary gift for hope‚ a romantic readiness... No-- Gatsby was
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In Hemingway ’s "Indian Camp" we are drawn to Nick ’s journey into the unknown to experience the cycle of life and death. But even though Nick ’s experience is or can be thought of as a major theme in the essay‚ cultural inequality is also an issue that helps to add question and interest to the narrative work. In many instances during this short story‚ many examples of racial domination are shown just between Nick ’s family and the Indians. Nick ’s father‚ the doctor‚ and Uncle George ’s racist behavior
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course‚ but also for humanizing‚ improving‚ instructing" (Conrad 548-64). The character Marlow‚ from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad‚ can be seen as similar to Nick Carraway‚ a character from Scott F. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Both men are beginning a new journey in their lives; with Marlow beginning his trip in Africa and Nick starting his new life in New York City. At first they are both incredibly naive and oblivious to their new environment and the true natures of the people around them
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THE GREAT GATSBY (Advanced English 11) (S11) Considered the finest of Fitzgerald’s works‚ The Great Gatsby (1925) is a story of a man with a dream that symbolizes the corruption of the American Dream. The novel recounts a summer in New York City when Nick Carraway meets Jay Gatsby and finds himself involved with the man’s wealth and his obsessive desire to make contact with Carraway’s cousin‚ Daisy Buchanan. Through a series of flashbacks‚ the novel reveals the life of James Gatz‚ who discarded his
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