Gatsby and Reader Comparative Essay The values of each age are reflected in the texts which are composed in them. Both The Great Gatsby and The Reader are written with the values of each age in mind. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby examines the culture of the 1920s and the context that surrounded Fitzgerald whilst writing the novel. Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader is an investigation into the post World War II generation of Germany and the views from each generation. The Reader is written
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Strategies‚ Nick Bostrom aims to help mankind avoid existential catastrophe by exploring solutions to the challenges that we may face the day we successfully build superintelligence. Even before that happens‚ he forces us to deliberate on how we can build these machines in a way that can prevent and mitigate their challenging behaviours. This book is of philosophical significance because it explores the future of humans in a world with
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There are various narrators in fictional stories who just weren’t meant to be trusted. There are unreliable narrators or speakers whose intentions were to develop some possibility of differentiating between truth and falsehood within the imagined world of the novel‚ as there is in the real world‚ for the story to engage our interest.develop some possibility of differentiating amongst truth and deception inside the envisioned universe of the novel‚ as there is in reality‚ in order for the story to
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In my artwork‚ I have depicted the image of soldier using objects of war. The objects I have chosen are not only used in war‚ as cited in American Sniper‚ The Things They Carried‚ and Nick Niday‚ but they depict an image of the effects of war on the soldier. The technical components of my image includes the colors‚ the objects of war chosen‚ and position of the body. These technical components assist the overall message of my piece which was to visually represent how the objects of war and war itself
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the Role of the Intrusive narrator/ author: an analysis of the narrative technique. You may think of the ways in which this technique challenges our reading style and habits‚ the ways it affects our level of understanding‚ the ways in which it challenges our understanding of the role of an author. The role of an intrusive narrator consisted in comments on and evaluates characters and actions; establishes what counts as facts and values in the narrative (wikipedia). It mainly point out the presence
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literary community for the narrator thought to be from the view of Elizabeth is often counter argued by someone else saying that the narrator is an omniscient third person narrator. The narration of Pride and Prejudice is typically done by Elizabeth in many views‚ although it occasionally gives us information that Elizabeth is not aware of‚ which therefore makes us come to the conclusion that it is not Elizabeth narrating the book. The third person narrative gives a plain view of the novel in the sense
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Nick and Smoke Having Similarities? If you read the book Scat‚ you could probably tell me at least 5 differences that Nick and Smoke have. Scat basically is about a boy named Nick and his friend Marta that have to find their mean missing teacher named Mrs. Starch. Mrs. Starch mysteriously disappears when the students at Truman Middle School take a field trip to Black Vine Swamp‚ and a fire starts while Mrs. Starch was looking for a missing inhaler. Nick and Smoke are two of the main characters in
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My story (Jack Alice Mathew Javier nick Maria) Nicholas was a 17 year-old kid who lived with his mom and dad in Armstrong‚ a small city along the Pacific Coast. They were a very tight nit family‚ always sharing family activities and spending time together. Jack‚ his father‚ was the boss in a pencil Factory. Alice‚ his mom‚ was a second grade teacher at Pollock‚ a local school in Armstrong. Nicholas was coursing eleventh grade at Liberty High School‚ and was an honor roll student and very good
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of narrative inferences by the reader is very important to interpret the work well. However‚ the author‚ while writing a story‚ can treat some incidents in detail and barely mention or even omit others. He may distort these incidents‚ may not observe chronological sequence‚ he can use messengers or flashbacks‚ and so on and so forth. The function of resorting to these varied narrative techniques is to emphasize or de-emphasize certain story-events‚ to interpret some and to leave others to inference
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Chapter: 1 1. What point of view is the story told in? The story is written in first person limited omniscient. 3. The narrator goes by the nickname “Scout.” What is her real name? The narrator’s real name is Jean Finch. 5. What happened to Jem and Scout’s mother? She died of a heart attack before the events in the book took place‚ when Scout was two years old and Jem was six. 7. Who is Dill? Dill is Jem and Scout’s summer neighbor and friend. 9. What courageous act does
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