He “ranged freely over music, literature, art, and other subjects,” but could not agree with what was taking place at Coney Island. Critics like him who had visited the island could not deny the fun environment, but felt that when people arrived a Coney Island, they lost their mind and moral values. Not only were they concerned about human character; they were also concerned about the economy as a whole. Coney Island was changing America “from a ‘pain economy,’ where scarcity of resources demanded a struggle for subsistence, to a ‘pleasure economy,’ in which abundance was potentially available to all” (Kasson 90). People would avoid sin to be sure not to be punished by unemployment and bad economic standings, but without this fear, it was unknown what citizens of the United States would start acting like.
Yet, the use of the simile “caught the 414 bus/ like a foreign tourist” undercuts any sense of comfort and creates a sense of alienation in this setting good! Again, Skryxnecki uses the structure of the poem for emphasis, positioning the adjective at the beginning of the next line foregrounds the persona's sense of confusion, “Uncertain of my destination/ Everytime I got off”. Here, the enjambment allows the emphasis to fall heavily on “everytime” highlighting that this was not an irregular
1) Making too many excuses for her behavior • “Being male is not a mess of contradictions, the way being female is. It is not trying to resolve how to be both desirable and smart, soft and sturdy, emotional and capable.” (p. 18) • “Ocean City is the perfect place to get caught red-handed… The setting means everyone involved can write the whole mess off as situational.” (p. 55) • “I’ve told myself that I’m drinking and smoking and otherwise acting delinquent because high school has dealt me a shitty hand…” (p. 56) 2) Giving in to peer pressure • “I perform many feats with Natalie that I have no real interest in doing. I hitchhike. I stuff hello kitty t-shirts into my book bag while a clerk isn’t looking.” (p. 8) • “... [Vanessa] just
The wedding march obviously means that one marriage is beginning and ironically right above the wedding on appears to crumbling. However the jazz that is heard is associated with Gatsby. Jazz is also associated with fun which is a complete contrast to what is happening in the hotel suite above; as there is nothing fun about the discussion Tom and Gatsby are having. Fitzgerald uses music to create an ironic situation in chapter five when Gatsby, Daisy and Nick are listening to “Ain’t we got fun”. This is also ironic as the song is about poor people saying that money doesn’t matter because they’re having fun; however one of the themes running through the book is inequality and the reader can see in the Valley of ashes that being poor is not fun at all.
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In Sullivan’s Travels, the montage of the casualties of the Depression that Sullivan witnesses underscores everything that the movie had previously eluded too. Like Sullivan, the audience does not appreciate how horribly that time affected people and those few seconds articulated the sentiment like no words could. The movie itself, made during the Depression, does what Sullivan realizes he needs to do—make a movie that gets people to laugh through the hard times. As Sullivan says, “There's a lot to be said for making people laugh… It isn't much, but it's better than nothing.” While in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, there is not one line that sums up the entire movie’s premise, there is a lot more than one montage to show us. The audience sees Mr. Smith fighting for something he believes in, despite everything that suddenly hits him.
Well, he’s dead now. Anyway, on a brighter note, today’s society still looks at young people as being naïve and crazy, but at least they don’t beat us for it like they did in the olden days. Now we’re aloud to roam free, with the exception of curfew and when express ourselves some people actually take our ideas into account. Romanticism inspires art, creativity, literature, music, and unique ideas. That’s why I don’t like, hate it even though those stories were so lame.
They treasure the feeling of liberty when they can, through such choice, run their own lives.” (Alexis de Tocqueville)There is clearly something in this. Yet the speed with which people abandoned Democracy when it failed economically, as Hitler and Mussolini showed, makes us pause. The fact that most people in Britain now do not bother to vote in local and European elections, and that the number voting in national elections in the United States is shrinking so dramatically, suggests that the emotional appeal is less strong than might be
There were many different factors that led to this drastic measure and we will be discussing them separately as the lack of engrossment in books and general abhorrence towards books. In the world that we live in, physically very similar to the one Bradbury portrays, the amount of free time that we possess keeps shrinking. Fahrenheit 451 shows that the ability to concentrate is very minimal in the general population of the world due to constant exposure and stimulation from advertisements, music and transportation. Therefore, the person or group which gains access to these stimulations is capable of not only changing the mindset of the population but their complete lifestyle. Amongst all this fast-paced world, people would have rather not considered about the immense amount of books available, opting for more conventional methods of obtaining knowledge.
The town was warm, dark, and moving ever-forward where Wallflower was stationary. It was to make people lose their sense of reality, of course, but it was too successful. It felt like another world. A world of white. “Stupid subconscious marketing.” People were getting too good at their jobs.