Write about some of the ways Fitzgerald tells the story in chapter 2. Fitzgerald uses a variety of narrative techniques including form, structure, language, narrative voice and setting. In chapter 2 in particular, Fitzgerald uses a lot of poetic language to highlight how beautifully Nick describes and explains his surroundings. An example of this would be when Nick gets drunk in New York City; Fitzgerald seizes this opportunity to use Nick’s intoxication to describe in great detail the littlest of things around him. The settings in chapter two contrast enormously with those of chapter one; The ‘Valley of Ashes’ that Tom and Nick travel through at the beginning of chapter two are bleak and miserable: ‘...and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of ash-grey men, who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.’ This illuminates the repercussions of the American dream that seem to go unnoticed.
He wrote about cosmopolitan life in New York City during Prohibition. A short time after arriving in France, Fitzgerald completed his most famous and respected novel, “The Great Gatsby”. The book shows how Fitzgerald had a divided nature. You see this in the hero Jay Gatsby and the narrator, Nick Carraway. Jay represents the naive Midwesterner bewitched by the American dream who amasses great wealth and uses it to pursue a spoiled, married, upper-class girl, and the love of his youth.
Whether their money is inherited or earned, its inhabitant are morally decadent, living life in quest of cheap thrills and with no seeming moral purposes to their lives. Any person who attempts to move up through the social classes becomes corrupt in the process. * Fitzgerald explores much more than the failure of the American dream- he is more deeply concerned with its total corruption. * In the final pages of the novel, the sweep of American history is alluded to in the landscape itself, as Nick is about to leave the Long Island. The fresh, virginal country that “Dutch sailors” first saw is evoked, reinforcing the magic of American promise.
Defending Jacob, a novel by William Landay. Is a legal thriller that makes the reader feel like his inside of all the drama, suspense and surprises of this tale. Andy Barber the main character is a assistant district attorney in New England. He has a normal sub-urban life with a good family. He has a wife Laurie, and a son, Jacob.
Christel Vidal IB English Mrs. Kaplan Period 4 East Egg vs. West Egg In his novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald creates two different worlds, where Nick and Gatsby live in West Egg and the Buchanan’s live in East Egg. The homes of the characters, East Egg and West Egg, are not, “separated only by a courtesy bay” (9), but more importantly in the way the two social lifestyles contrast. With detailed character description, powerful symbols, and tone Fitzgerald establishes the great differences of social groups and morals. East Egg is where the social elite and higher class call home. They are considered “old money” which means they were raised with money from past generations.
Literature "The Scholarship Jacket” by Marta Salinas (LoL p. 278) "The Noble Experiment” by Jackie Robinson ( p. 287) “Ant and Grasshopper” and “The Richer, the Poorer” (p. 312, p.316) “One Ordinary Day With Peanuts” by Shirley Jackson (p. 348 ) “Amigo Brothers” by Piri Thomas (p. 361) Part IV. Literary Term: Irony | Meaning | Example | Elements of FictionTheme | ThemePlotCharactersSettingPoint of ViewSybolism | | Plot | | | Point of View:First PersonSecond PersonThird Person | | | Setting | | | Character | | | Symbolism | | | Simile (review from Q2) | | | Metaphor(review from Q2) | | | Author’s Tone | |
Michael Blasl Introduction to Analytical Writing 10:25-11:20 October 8th 2009 Love on the Rocks: An Ironic Rite of Passage In both John Updike’s “A&P” and Alice Munro’s “How I Met My Husband” the authors use the literary devices of irony and theme in their stories. In the following essay, this writer will analyze and compare both characters rite of passage, and how the use of irony leads them towards their completion of that rite. First, Sammy’s naïve and inexperienced persona cause him to make several poor choices such as quitting his job and force him to see how his actions can have very serious consequences. Second, this writer will compare his rite of passage to that of Edie’s.
Eugenee Del Rosario Ms. Ivey American Lit April 16, 2012 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald is very clever in the ways he uses and demonstrates symbolism in The Great Gatsby. In the novel, Fitzgerald criticizes the role of money in society. He describes essential traits of human life, especially romantic love and importance of money. There are different amounts of significance and symbolism throughout the novel. Through the use of symbols such as the Valley of Ashes, time, and the green light, he portrays the American society as a corruption of wealth.
Javillonar 1 Shemaiah Javillonar AP Literature Period 0 The Great Gatsby In the book, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick, the narrator, narrates in 1st person; involving interpretation of the novel’s events through the narrator. Nick watched the events unfold, like the illustrations of the book are two eyes looking over the city, which would be Nick, who is a witness in the story. There are so many reasons why Nick is a reliable narrator. Nick is a reliable narrator because first of all, Nick is cousins with Daisy whose husband is Tom which they met at college and he is also next door neighbors with Gatsby so he makes a great eyewitness for these three, off the batch because he links all of them together which sets most of the main ideas of the story. If Nick wouldn’t have known or have been close to most of the characters he wouldn’t have been reliable because he could’ve been making up the story and making assumptions about all of them.
Throughout the novel ‘Of Mice and Men’ the central theme explored is the notion of friendship, but more specifically the difference between a truthful, reality-based friendship and the form of friendship that develops a barrier between the individual and their dreams. By utilising several literary devices such as symbolism, foreshadowing, vivid imagery, Steinbeck has constructed a powerful illustration of the tragic consequences of a genuine friendship between two very different men disrupted by the difficulties of regional America in the wake of the 1929 crash. At first glance, it would seem that Lennie and George are both exceptionally different people, for example George is described as ‘small, quick, and dark of face with restless eyes and sharp strong features’ whereas Lennie is described as, ‘a huge man, shapeless of face, with large pale eyes, with large sloping shoulders.’ This indicates that from the first sight of Lennie and George, a dynamic in their relationship