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    evoking sinister abstractions. The attention to detail is almost impeccable‚ from the dressing styles‚ the music culture‚ architecture‚ gadgets‚ the landscape‚ interior decorations & design‚ to the movie texture. There is a deep character study of Patrick Bateman‚ who is a suave yuppie working at Wall Street. This wealthy 27 year old working as Vice President in Pierce & Pierce becomes a psycho killer by evening. The character is portrayed by the flamboyant welsh actor Christian Bale whose performance

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    Derek Naegle Dr. Cammie Sublette ENGL 2033 September 7‚ 2012 American Inequality in American Psycho Set in the Manhattan of 1989‚ Brett Easton Ellis ’s novel American Psycho sketches the life of Patrick Bateman‚ an attractive 26-year-old Harvard graduate who earns a six-figure income on Wall Street. Bateman and his Ivy League educated friends enjoy all the luxury Manhattan has to offer‚ including expensive restaurants‚ exclusive nightclubs and excessive amounts of cocaine. However‚ what their

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    York yuppie turned serial killer Patrick Bateman. Where the book gave readers the eyes and insight of a warped Patrick Bateman‚ the movie displayed a more outward perspective‚ balancing the darkly comical with hints of insanity that built toward the unraveling of this American Psycho. Some may argue that serial killers are born with the inevitable urge to murder‚ while others believe these actions are a direct result of environmental culturing. The character of Patrick Bateman would justly cause anyone

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    Crazy Holden Caulfield In the United States today‚ a person commits suicide about every twenty minutes (Whybrow). Many of these people end their life‚ due to a mental illness. Extreme emotions and dramatic moods swings are part of being human‚ but at a certain point‚ they can take over someone’s entire existence. Mental disorders are common‚ and often show up in literature to add a deeper layer of complexity to a character. The human psyche is complex on its own‚ so when a emotional disorder is added

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    Easton Ellis uses Literary devices such as foreshadowing and allusions all while leaving readers with the theme that thing are not always what they seem. Ellis continuously gives readers clues throughout the first half of the story as to what Patrick Bateman does by night. As well as giving us readers clues‚ Bateman constantly admits that he kills people and that he would even kill his friends if they pushed him to his breaking point but due to his social class and their naive manner they overlook

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    both contrasting each other. ‘Perfume’ a book with sense of smell aided in creating a picture the author ‘Patrick Suskind’ put forth of the character in the book. Patrick has used many adjectives to describe Grenouille’s sense of smell ‘his gift and his sole ambition’ (Patrick‚ pg.3) and some other are ‘......arrogance‚ misanthropy‚ immorality‚ or more succinctly‚ wickedness......” (Patrick‚3) In house of spirits supernatural events make Clara’s character a strange mysterious person she has been

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    English 1413 Propose a comparative interpretation of the Gothic representation of excess in The Bloody Chamber and “Blood Disease.” The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter and “Blood Disease” by Patrick McGrath are gothic novels that incorporate the theme of excess into the stories using various techniques. The Bloody Chamber is a tale of a young girl whisked away from her lower class life with the promise of wealth and luxury. Little does she know her new husbands true character or his monstrous

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    novel ‘The Arrival’. Both composers use various ways of interpreting belonging and not belonging. Through the use of techniques‚ we can gain a greater understanding of belonging and its costs. In the poem ‘St Patricks college’‚ Skrzynecki reflects on some of his experiences of St Patricks college in Strathfield. Peter questions the social‚ educational and spiritual value of his school experiences at the college. Through a cliché‚ Skrzynecki states that his mother only sent him to that school because

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    taken from the perspective of Holden Caulfield. Holden is a sixteen-year-old student at an assumed boarding school‚ where we are in the first person of Holden which lets us discover his character from his speech‚ thoughts and actions [indirect] and his opinions and descriptions of Mr Spencer‚ his history teacher [direct]. He was sitting in a big leather chair‚ all wrapped up in that blanket … He looked over at me when I knocked. “Who’s that?” he yelled. “Caulfield? Come in‚ boy.” He was always yelling

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    Cited: "#95 Danica Patrick - Forbes.com." Information for the World ’s Business Leaders - Forbes.com. Forbes‚ 14 June 2007. Web. 09 May 2011. . "2008-2009 NBA Attendance - National Basketball Association - ESPN." ESPN: The Worldwide Leader In Sports. ESPN Internet Ventures

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