and it was because of this that I first met Tom Buchanan’s mistress.” While people are waiting for the train‚ between West Egg and New York they are surrounded in a place where Fitzgerald names the “valley of ashes.” The opening chapter of the Great Gatsby details the rich and American values. The second chapter is where the valley of ashes is introduced. Fitzgerald portrays this landscape in such specific words that helps the reader capture the ambience of the plot. The valley of ashes influences
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April 4th‚ 2013 Dear God‚ Recently I’ve been thinking a lot since I’ve been here at Hospital Angeles Tijuana about my family and the fact that I have been lost at sea for 227 days. I miss my family‚ but I miss Richard Parker too. Well I just can’t believe what happened these past 7 months. It’s crazy to acknowledge the fact that I’ve been out there for over half a year. Two men who claimed to be some Japanese Transport Officials visited me and asked me questions about what happened when the
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Today is Thursday December 16‚ 1773. The air seems to have a cold crisp to it‚ and the wind sending chills down your spine. Winter here in Boston was always cold‚ but the worst part of this winter was that parliament had just appealed all other taxes on us colonists‚ except for the tea. This past year has been miserable‚ taxes on tea‚ clothing‚ textiles‚ and food‚ this has resulted the patriots resenting England’s parliament and the once cherished King. The stress of paying for these overly priced
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Hi‚ im Mary! Im 13 years old. I live in a Small town right outside chicago. I wake up and go to school everyday. I have the same routine. I wake up‚ brush my hair and my teeth‚ eat my breakfast and the go to school. After school I come eat supper and then do the dishes and soon i’m off to bed. I also work on saturdays. I help in a factory. I sew things. My mommas name is kate. She’s a kind lady. Everyone loves her. She is what you call a flapper. She always tells me crazy stories of things
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In the six years I spent tracking David Addley‚ it never occurred to me that he didn’t exist. Sitting in the corner of a padded room in a straight jacket can be an enlightening experience. The nurses had told me numerous times the night before that there was no one named David Addley who lived in the small town I’d come too searching for him. I didn’t and couldn’t believe them at the time. I had screamed his name all night through the holes on the window of my cell door until the nurses were forced
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The couple were twenty minutes into their meal before they realised the roast they were enjoying was actually their baby. I apologise. The above statement may be a little confusing for you‚ but let me explain and I promise‚ it will all make sense. You see‚ I had been caring for the Brown’s baby‚ Claire‚ for almost two months. On Sunday‚ my mobile rang. Looking at the caller ID told me it was Claire’s mum‚ Katie. “Hello?” “Hi‚ Anna? It’s Katie.” “Hello‚ Katie. It’s lovely
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The Parodoxic stabilisers.on. Time wave translators. on a slam. Dear diary‚ 307ce This is Maeve As I stepped out into the ancient civilisation of Rome‚ I saw beautiful architecture stretching into the blue sky.including the Pantheon. and then my hands were clasped in rough irons and my head with tight strings that clawed at my neck. The bustling streets of ancient Rome filled with merchants and nobles who stood like hungry vultures at the collection of slaves that I was now a part of. Roughly‚ by
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It is all useless. It is like chasing the wind." (Ecclesiastes 2:26). The "it" in this case‚ F Scott Fitzgerald’s groundbreaking novel The Great Gatsby‚ refers to the exhaustive efforts Gatsby undertakes in his quest for life: the life he wants to live‚ the so-called American Dream. The novel is Fitzgerald’s vessel of commentary and criticism of the American Dream. As he paints a vivid portrait of the Jazz Age‚ Fitzgerald defines this Dream‚ and through Gatsby’s downfall‚ expresses the futility and
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Anne’s last diary entry was on August 1‚ 1944 and they were arrested on August 4‚1944 so she didn’t write in her diary on the day she was taken. The Frank family was hidden in the Annex with the Van Pels and Fritz Pfeffer. They whole Frank family was brought to Auschwitz in southern Poland. Anne and Margot were later taken to Bergen-Belsen in northern Germany. They changed camps because they were too young to die. They were treated Ruthlessly and cruelly. They forced to do hard labor. Most of the
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0The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India The Great Gatsby: A Rich Man in India Reasoning for title – story is similar to Great Gatsby. He’s trying to interview the richest man in India‚ but his reputation is very contradicting – fraud or the truth? Tells his story about childhood and how his dad was considered a fraud‚ then he built up the school after his father stepped down. Originally he wanted to do things with cigars‚ then it went South and now he has a real cigar business
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