world” and describes it magnificently. Through the use of rhetoric‚ Fitzgerald portrays the concept of the American Dream‚ one of the many themes that exist in the novel. As Nick crosses the Queensboro Bridge‚ Fitzgerald utilizes metaphorical language to expose the concept of the American Dream as it exists in the novel. As Nick crosses “the great bridge” and sees the “city rising up across the river‚” Fitzgerald displays that the city is a place where one could move up the social ladder and fulfill
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Abortion: Should be illegal & is immoral Many people believe that abortions should be legal because women should have the right to choose whether or not they want to bring a baby into the world. They believe a woman should have property rights which include the body and the fetus. They also believe a woman should have privacy rights which means the state should not interfere with private matters. These people are called pro choice. At the same time many people are anti-abortion because they
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Chickamauga In the story Chickamauga Ambrose Bierce uses the narrator to tell the story through the eyes of the boy. The reader gets to know the protagonist through the narrator who the author uses to reveal some of the characters directly through disturbing details and others indirectly by describing the reaction of the character to certain situations. The boy in the story is the protagonist. The author introduces you to the boy in the begining of the story. Biecre lets you know the boy is
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one: "No matter how they explained‚ no matter how they laughed me away‚ I could not but believe I remembered my own birth." (Mishima 2) Here we see for the first time the attitude which drives the novel: life‚ the universe‚ and everything for the narrator are products of his own mind. "Reality" as he perceives it has its roots in real events--he was‚ in fact‚ born; his existence is not just his own fantasy--but the event is twisted and mangled until it fits his own concept. We can see the same sort
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A Property of the Clan " unravels the death of a teenage girl at an underage drinking party and explores how the youths handle the situation. "A Property of the Clan" is not light entertainment‚ or an easy play to read. It deals with an ugly and disturbing subject‚ but does so in a thoughtful and sensitive way‚ acknowledging the brutal reality of violence against women as an unfortunate experience in life. The plot of A Property of the Clan " is about teenage violence that existed within Australia
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"Views on the role of Nick as narrator in The Great Gatsby have varied greatly. How do these two views relate to your own view of Nick ’s function in the novel?" I aim to explain effectively my opinion that Fitzgerald ’s use of Nick as the narrator of The Great Gatsby is a very successful literary technique. I shall do this by the analysis of the two contrasting pieces of criticism‚ as well as of the novel itself. I feel that the successful use of this technique can be attributed to three main
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Nick Carraway is the narrator of "The Great Gatsby". He begins the novel by talking about himself: he says that he is very tolerant‚ and has a tendency to reserve judgment. The opening paragraphs teach us a lot about Nick and his attitude toward Gatsby and others. Nick introduces himself to us as a young man from the Midwest who has come East to learn. He tells us that he’s tolerant‚ inclined to reserve judgment about people‚ and a good listener. People tell him their secrets because they admire
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Reading Journal: (Entry 4) 13/12/17‚ ‘Villette’ In the novel‚ ‘Villette’‚ Lucy Snowe‚ is a unique character who narrates her life as a young destitute woman. Her narration follows the conventions of a female narrative of domestic love although the story breaks away from those conventions. Lucy sometimes talks of herself as a third person‚ and makes it clear in the novel that she is not participant in some points of the plot. She only claims to be the "Lucy Snowe" that she wants us to see. The narration
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Nick describes himself as “honest” but in the final chapter Jordan Baker disagrees’. To what extent does Fitzgerald portray Nick as honest? Assess whether the reader is supposed to believe that Nick is “honest”? The ‘honest’ narrator Nick is far from truthful. Created as a pseudo-alias to reflect Fitzgerald’s own ideals‚ Nick represents a slightly more sober and realistic view of the grossly decadent world he lives is. Although this may not be entirely free of bias‚ the character is level-headed
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The use of setting by the narrator in “A Tell-Tale Heart” Edgar Allan Poe’s “A Tell-Tale Heart” is about a man‚ driven by madness‚ who murders an old man in order to escape his fear. I believe that the narrator chose the time and place of his crime intentionally‚ for the following reasons: The deed was committed in the dark‚ which also describes his thoughts. The murderous act was in the old man’s bedroom‚ with the bed being the murder weapon‚ in order to achieve redemption. Also‚ the crime was
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