CHARACTER TRAIT ANALYSIS : NICK CARRAWAY AND JORDAN BAKER By Laurentia Editha 11 IB 1 / 8 In the book‚ two characters named Nick Carraway and Jordan Baker were introduced. These two characters then slowly grow into being each other’s love interest‚ but despite this‚ they are very opposite to each other. The most evident difference may be noticed from how they behave. Jordan‚ being a more buoyant and sanguine female character‚ often shows rudeness in certain circumstances. Such example is
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“The reliability of the narrator‚ Nick Carraway‚ in the Great Gatsby is limited”. Is this statement true? Further your response by making links to the narrator in The Sun Also Rises. Many would say that The Great Gatsby is a book that is hard to clarify. The reader of the book must comprehend views from all characters‚ the main one being the narrator‚ Nick Carraway. The reader must also take into consideration the time period of which the book is written (the 1920’s‚ similarly to The Sun Also Rises
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Nick Carraway is an important character in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel‚ The Great Gatsby. Throughout the book‚ Nick struggles to understand the world around him and the people in it. Why are some people so careless while other people are so cautious? Why do people wait around for things to happen instead of going out and making them happen? And most of all‚ with all the people in the world‚ how can one still feel so lonely? It’s not hard to pick up on Nick’s detachment‚ “I felt a haunting loneliness
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Norbert Sackey Social Theory Kajsa Hallberg Adu The Ideology of Liberalism Liberalism as a term can perhaps be tracked back as far as to early agricultural societies‚ when people started living in settled communities and were forced‚ for the first time‚ to find ways of trading and living with strangers. Nevertheless‚ liberalism as a developed ideology was a product of the breakdown of feudalism in Europe ‚ and the growth in its place‚ of a market or a market or a capitalist society. In
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The Unreliable Narration of Montresor: An Analysis on Edgar Allan Poe’s Short Story The Cask of Amontillado In Edgar Allan Poe’s short story‚ The Cask of Amontillado‚ a theme of gothic horror is present‚ due partly to the ironic narration of Montresor and the setting. Poe creates Montresor as one of a sociopathic nature‚ in which he jests with his victim‚ Fortunato‚ up until the moments of his death. Montresor’s narration however is unreliable in that the reader does not know whether the victim
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(Chapter 3). The novel The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Nick Carraway has a special place in this novel‚ and it’s not only because he is the narrator. He is not just one character among several‚ it is through his eyes and ears that we form our understanding of the other characters. If we were unable to have faith in his judgment‚ then our views of the rest of the characters would be unstable and doubtful. Nick goes to some length to establish his credibility‚ indeed his moral integrity
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10/08/13 John Alfra Grades and Self-Esteem 1- Only 11% of eighth – graders in California’s public schools can solve seventh-grade math problems. I agree with Randy Moore that because in my country some public school doesn’t teach the math well so the students won’t understand it. Some student are in 6th grades and 7th grades they can’t solve 5th grades math problems. 2- More than 30% of U.S 17-year- old don’t know that Abraham Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation. Almost half do not know
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Technology “I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity - The world will only have a generation of idiots.” With these words‚ first uttered by Albert Einstein long before the era of Pc’s and iPhones and even portable phones or phones at all existed‚ I want to make you aware of the Philosophers wisdom in my todays scheme. Now that technology plays such a major role in all of our daily lives‚ we have to ask ourselves‚ has Einstein’s fear become true? Fact is‚ that TECHNOLOGY is
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NTRODUCTION Attention-Getter: According to FIFA.com‚ the 1994 World Cup held in the U.S.A. recorded an overall attendance of well over three and a half million making it the highest attended world cup in history; so why is it that soccer is not embraced in the U.S.? Audience Motivation: Soccer is the most popular sport in the world and it is our duty as citizens of one of the most diverse cities in America to be aware of this sport. Purpose/ Preview: In my speech‚ I will talk about the influence
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how healthily – how calmly I can tell you the whole story” (Poe). The unnamed first-person narrator begins by attempting to prove his sanity while confessing to killing an old man. The narrator admits that “he doesn’t recall how the idea entered his brain but it haunted him day and night” (Poe). Insane can be defined as an action or quality characterized or caused by madness. I believe that the unnamed narrator is very much insane. “He had the eye of a vulture. Whenever it fell upon me‚ my blood ran
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