Nick Carraway- He is the narrator and main character of the novel The Great Gatsby. After Nick graduated from Yale and served in World War I‚ he moved to New York City to learn how to sell bonds. He then moved to West egg‚ which is a fictional area in Long Island to sell bonds. He soon becomes friends with his neighbor‚ Gatsby. Jay Gatsby- He is the character that the novel is titled after. He is a wealthy young man who lives in a mansion in West Egg. He is well known for the parties he throws every
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H.G. Wells The Time Machine Mischel Figusch Englisch-LK Jg. 13 Plot Summary The novel begins with a dinner meeting at the Time Traveller’s house. The present intellectual group‚ consisting of the narrator‚ a Psychologist‚ a Medical Man and a Provincial Mayor are discussing the theme of the fourth dimension‚ i.e. time. The TT tries to explain the theory and the possibility of time travelling. As the guests doubted his words he proves his theory with a small model of a time machine
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<center><b>Show how the plot of The Merchant of Venice’ is apparently fanciful but in reality exactingly structured.</b></center> <br> <br>"The Merchant of Venice is a fairy tale. There is no more reality in Shylock’s bond and the Lord of Belmont’s will than in Jack and the Beanstalk." <br>H. Granville-Barker‚ in Prefaces to Shakespeare. <br> <br>This is one way of looking at the play‚ reading it or enjoying the performance. But it can be a contradiction to our actual feelings about this complex play
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contributions to the literary world and one of his most notorious contributions is the Code Hero. The birth and growth of the Code Hero can be easily observed simply by watching the growth and development of Nick Adams throughout Hemingway’s writing. In Our Time contains a various assortment of Nick Adam stories at various stages of his life and also shows the Code Hero at various stages of its development. In Our Time was the second book Hemingway had published. His first contained only three short
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MULAN (early 20s) cuts woods in the forest when a couple of teenage boys start making fun of her‚ because of doing man’s work. The teenage boys go on to say that she will never find a husband if she acts like a man. Even though she looks unmoved on the outside‚ these comments hurt her on the inside. Later‚ her father FA ZHOU (45-50)‚ an old soldier and the village leader‚ shows her some fight moves. That night‚ ROURAN RAIDERS attack Mulan’s village. As the villagers try to defend Mulan’s village
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Invisible Man: Plot Summary Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man opens with a prologue describing the main character in time after the beginning of the body of the book. In the prologue‚ Ellison tells of the main characters invisibility. It is not a physical invisiblity‚ but rther he is not recognised‚ and therefore persieved‚ by the world at large. This is coupled with the fact that he is constantly trying to be someone else‚ other than himself‚ creates for his a complete loss of identity‚ and he
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inconspicuous game the boys were playing started off with just a few people. “And then I walked over to first base with Matty Vacc‚ where we could watch the thing unfold. We were giddy” (page 52). Even Petey says it‚ this little game is nothing more than just a thing. Until it accumulates into becoming something much more than that. “At ‘sixty-five!’ I noticed that traffic had completely stopped on thirty-third street” (page 56). Everybody is coming together to watch this little boy reveal his incredible
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Sophocles - Antigone The Plot Antigone has been immensely popular through ages. It has an irresistible appeal to modern mind. The heroine of the play is the first protestant in world’s history. Antigone is a woman who has prized truth above everything. Creon‚ the King of Thebes has forbidden on pain of death the burial of the dead body of Polynices‚ eldest brother of Antigone. To the Greeks‚ respect for the dead was an article of faith. Oedipus’ daughters Antigone and Ismene are living
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(which is still and will stay unknown) changes his perspective about war. When he thought war contained glory and glamour‚ he finds himself wrong when his comrades start to die‚ beginning with Brown. A while later‚ he is emotionally affected when he kills a German with his bayonet. His emotional status worsens when another of his friend dies. The narrator then goes on leave for 10 days in England‚ where a prostitute makes him forget about the war. When he comes back‚ an attempt to raid the Germans takes
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television series and movies of this generation have become the most powerful historians. Movies expose the viewer to possibly see what history was truly resembling‚ or it can even give a singularity of knowledge. Hollywood created many motion pictures about previous events‚ but added in things that was not a part in the true event. During 1989 in the New York Times‚ it was discussed if movies can accurately grasp the understanding of history. Richard Bernstein researched Mississippi Burning stating it
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