The Valley of Ashes is also shown as the failure of the American dream as it is a place where real working class Americans are working and are unhappy and lifeless. George Wilson’s characterisation shows detail of this as he is described of having a ‘damp gleam of hope’ (pg 17) in his eyes but he is a ‘spiritless’ and ‘anemic’ man showing that he wishes for something more but the Valley of Ashes have his life and he can’t get out. In truth no one can escape the Valley of Ashes as we see Myrtle getting killed as she tries to escape from there, George Wilson keeps his wife captive in their house as she wants to leave ‘I’ve got my wife locked up in there’ (pg 87) but when Myrtle does try to escape she ends up getting killed by Daisy, ‘thick dark blood with the dust’ (pg 88) this symbolises that although Daisy hit her with Gatsby’s car it was actually the Valley of Ashes that killed her because she tried to escape and be more than a working class American failing the American dream. The ‘ash’ also symbolises death and it
Chris nervously interviews his neighbors, recording his findings in his book The Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. When Chris’s dad finds the book he takes it from Chris. In Chris’s attempt to find his precious journal he accidentally stumbles onto a mound of letters addressed to him from his supposedly dead mother, written to him after she had died. Coming to the realization that Chris’s dad had lied about his mom’s death Chris vomits and lays on the bed until his dad comes home. Ed, after realizing Chris had read the letters, tells Chris not only that he lied about his mother’s death, but that he was also the one who killed Wellington after a fight with Ms. Shears!
When they grow to adult, the author Wes won the Rhodes Scholar and the other Wes serving life in prison because of robbery and kill police. So what factors made the biggest difference and why these two men end up with such different lives? There must be some reasons that lead to this result. First and foremost, family education plays a important role in their lives. The author Wes his parents is legal husband and wife and his father dead because of illness.
At the age of twelve Charles’s mother took him out of school so he could work while his father was in jail for failure to pay debt. Working at a shoe-polish factory, instead of being the kid to grow up and become the intelligent young man he had dreamed of being took its toll on Charles. After a period of time Charles did go back to school. At fifteen he dropped out and resented his mother for it. (Dickens NG) Charles met Catherine Hogarth in 1834, became engaged in 1835 and
THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY FOREIGN LANGUAGE FACULTY [pic] CHARLES DICKENS AN ADVOCATE FOR CHILDREN CALLING SOCIETY TO RESPONSIBILITY ( Student’s name: Nguyen Thi Thu Hang Class: English Language K31B Teacher: Nadia Andrillenas ABSTRACT Like many other works at the same period of time, the novel Oliver Twist faithfully reflects the social reality in 1830s England. In addition, under the pen of Charles Dickens, the greatest critical realist in the 19th century English literature, the problem of orphans and the social responsibility for orphaned children emerge as a worrying issue. Thai Nguyen, November 2010 I. INTRODUCTION 1. Rationale Cyril Connolly – an English writer - said that “literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice”.
His life began on that stormy day when he was created but was left to survive on its own. Through the struggle of escaping the apartment, the creature is faced with the discovery of light, darkness, hunger, thirst, cold and being turned away by the same being that created him. While wondering alone he comes upon the warmth of a fire but becomes arose when it burns him. Though he felt warmth he also felt hunger and in search of food he finds a hut which he enters but is feared by the owner. He continues into a village but there too he is feared instead of being helped, and in the end he stayed away from humans.
Boo writes, “What you don't want is always going to be with you. What you want is never going to be with you. Where you don't want to go, you have to go. And the moment you think you're going to live more, you're going to die.” This quote embodies how harsh it is living in the slum of Annawadi. Some of the slums residents lack any type of shelter and are forced to sleep outside, rats commonly bite people while they try to sleep, and barely a handful of the 3,000 residents of the slum are lucky enough to have full time employment.
For example, Wright is enrolled in school late due to his family’s extreme poverty and that whites try to keep African Americans uneducated as a form of oppression. But that does not stop Wright. His mother helps him to learn to read by reading the newspaper, and the coal deliveryman teaches him to count. Wright has grown to fear the color white. So much so that as a child he runs away from a foster home and encounters a white police officer and does not know if the police officer is going to hurt him or not.
School has become his only escape from his living nightmare and horrid home environment. His mother begins to deny him food, forcing David to steal the other children’s lunches at school. David is often caught doing so, thus making his mother even more infuriated; as well as setting David up for relentless bullying from his classmates. By the first grade, David had become an outsider to his own family. He was no longer allowed to eat meals alongside his family, play with his brothers, watch television, leave the house, or look at or speak to anyone.
People would creep in at night on Eli’s father and hit him to be able to steal the little food he had. I will never forget the image of the sick father getting beat for his food because that was his food and nobody had the right to steal it. He was sick and the little food he had he needed. I felt pain when I read of this part in the book. The pain the father must have been in trying to fight for his food and then getting it taken from him and having to feel hunger and sick.