around every corner. The book also shows how cupidity and duplicity can lead to chaos. As a human being in this world‚ its natural or a need to want things that our of reach: not caring of the ramifications along the way. The book The Great Gatsby has been produced into multiple films. The two that we are most aware of was an older version made in 1974 with director Jack Clayton‚ starring Robert Redford as J.Gatsby. 39 years after the 1974 movie‚ a new Great Gatsby movie came out in 2013‚ in which
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Imagine ending up an island that has a very bad reputation by all sailors. At first you think that it is not dangerous‚ but then you learn about what happens on the island. Rainsford and his friend Whitney were on a boat travelling to Rio. The short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell is a very suspenseful story that shows how Rainsford is very brilliant. Rainsford is on his boat when he falls off and lands in the water and he ends up swimming to the island nearby that all sailors
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The Most Dangerous Game Sequel As Rainsford awoke‚ he felt a strange feeling. He couldn’t quite place it. It was like he was being watched. It was dread. It was as if his intuition was saying to run. Just then‚ General Zaroff came in. Rainsford jumped back‚ and General Zaroff offered him a glass of Dom Perignon. Rainsford looked suspiciously at the champagne. He was confused; he had beaten the General at his own game‚ killed his servant Ivan‚ and taken the life of one of his best dogs.
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Gatsby In the book The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ a man tries to get the love of his life back‚ and ends up dying because of it. Now some people think this is heroic but others think he was just plain stupid. The director Baz Luhrmann adapted the book into a movie and did a good job portraying some aspects of the book‚ like the characters and the overall plot. He also did a good job of adding new things into it to make the movie better‚ like Nick’s life after Gatsby. The book has some strong
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The Hunger Games can be interpreted as entertainment in both the book and novel‚ the novel is to inform‚ and movie is to entertain. This is because in the first few chapters all the author talks about is how bad‚ sad and how the government is being ruined‚ how sad‚ informing the audience what the government can become. In the movie it doesn’t really express how bad the government is and skips over important key details‚ therefore the movie is to entertain. In the movie The Hunger Games‚ the director
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A Christmas Carol The first edition of A Christmas Carol was introduced in 1843 and the movie version was first let out in 1938. Interesting huh? Well here is a very fun fact about Charles Dickens‚ the writer of this novel‚ he always insisted on sleeping with his bed aligned north-south‚ with his head pointing north. He also had a pet raven called Grip which he had stuffed when it died in 1841. These are a couple of facts that I found very interesting and a little different. In this report I’m going
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behaviors‚ based on his research he made the theory of moral development. This theory states that there are six stages of moral development that people go through‚ an infant beginning at stage zero and growing up into a different stage. In The Most Dangerous Game‚ by Richard Connell‚ a man named Rainsford is stranded on an island and is hunted by General Zaroff‚ the owner of the island who hunts human for sport. While hunting Rainsford General Zaroff displays stage zero transitioning stage one in many
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The Most Dangerous Game He had never slept in a better bed. Rainford decided. In two seconds‚ the general had run up to the wall where they enormous swords hang. General drew one of them and threw one of them to Rainford. Rainford was not prepared for its weight‚ which meant that he fell down. The General made a move toward him. Rainsford found himself quickly‚ he spun around on the floor and took shelter behind the armchair at the fireplace. A fight broke out. A fight for life or death. Suddenly
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Compare and Contrast Essay Placing a cigarette between his lips‚ he struck a match‚ inhaled smoke‚ and hurriedly put out the light. Almost immediately a bullet flattened itself against the parapet of the roof. This scene is from “The Sniper‚” a story that is suspenseful throughout. Another story that is suspenseful throughout is “The Most Dangerous Games.” “The Most Dangerous Games” and “The Sniper” have many similarities and much differences such as the authors of the stories who are from different
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during the movie her family grows. The hope of having someone to love them and to be her family was one Celie always had. The letters Celie read from her sister Nettie gave her hope that she would see her sister again and might meet her child‚ whom she hoped would love her as their mother. In Steven Spielberg’s film‚ Color Purple‚ three messages of love‚ family‚ and hope are seen throughout the movie. Love in the Color Purple is something
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