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.
Hemingway almost immediately sets the atmosphere of sadness and depression through rain. Hemingway emphasizes how unpleasant it is outside but then describes the hotel room as comforting and cheerful. Hemingway uses syntax and detail to stress the contrast between the negative outside world and the reassuring room he is in with Catherine. The devices create an image of a negativity surrounding Frederic and Catherine, the image that together they manage to overcome the great sense of fear and loneliness that they feel in the presence of other people outside of this room. The repetition of the word outside in the first sentence highlights how all the negativity is taking place outside of the hotel room and the detail also creates an image of being in a mothers womb.
In Chapter 16, Hosseini uses voice narrative to tell the story of Rahim Khan and Hassan in order to fill in the missing puzzle pieces. The chapter sees Rahim Khan take over Amir’s narrative and tell the story by referring to his first hand account of events. Hosseini does this in order to show an alternate point of view, though the account is still largely bias, it offers new perspective for the reader and adds to the exciting intensity of the chapter. Hosseini portrays Rahim Khan’s voice narrative as seemingly more wise due to the religious connotations and old fashioned manner, which contrasts greatly of that of Amir’s in previous chapters. Although, both Amir and Rahim Khan tell their stories in a formal manner.
A poet can experience various emotions that can be both negative and positive through an encounter with a place. This is evident in poems “Harbour Dusk” by Robert Gray and “William Street” by Kenneth Slessor. Gray creates a negative atmosphere to his poem “Harbour Dusk” however the poem does not completely revolve around negative connotations as such. At times in the poem ‘Harbour Dusk’, the poet portrays a isolated and tranquil surrounding though the atmosphere delivers a sense of melancholy. On the other hand, Slessor’s poem “William Street” challenges the readers by attributing beauty to the urban setting of the city streets.
Although both Preston Sturges and Frank Capra use imagery and comedy to deliver messages in their respective movies, Capra’s ability to express his ideas in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington regarding perseverance conveys a much more poignant message, despite Sturges’ more recognizable views about smiling through the pain in his movie, Sullivan’s Travels. The comedic elements of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and Sullivan’s Travels add to the theme of each movie, subtly giving away major plot points. Both movies draw the audience in with the use of farce, such as when Sturges has Sullivan and his companion pushing each
Appreciation for the smaller things in life allows one to make the best out of a bad situation. An appreciation of these things may be vulnerable to the influence of one’s mood. This becomes apparent to Alain de Botton when he states, “When we are in a good mood and it is sunny, it is tempting to impute a connection between what happens inside and outside of us, but the appearance of London on my return was a reminder of the indifference of the world to any of the events unfolding in the lives of its inhabitants” (59). There is a common misconception that the external environment can affect one’s internal mood ones, though it is moderately the opposite happening: mood affects how we perceive the weather; however, that is not the case. The environment can play a major role in one’s mood, but in another aspect; a person’s temper is a factor in how they perceive the weather.
F Scott Fitzgerald's use of settings in the novel, 'The Great Gatsby’, amplifies the patterns within the story line that explain the lifestyle choices during the time period of the 1920's. The main parties within the book, the first being the one in New York and the second the garden party at Gatsby's connect to how the upper and middle class socialites would use every opportunity to celebrate a meaningless event. Juxtaposing two scenes in a narrative allows them to be easily compared and contrasted. The first party within the novel is in New York in the apartment that Myrtle and Tom use as a place to the plant their affair. With Nick visiting the city that never sleeps with Tom it becomes almost awkward with Nick being the relative of Daisy and would most likely stay true to family rather than a college friend.
Fitzgerald immediately juxtaposes the decadent materialistic setting of east egg with the new setting, the 'valley of ashes', which represents the destruction created from the materialistic. The valley of ashes is home to the working class and honest, yet they are surrounded by destruction made by those who live in East and West Egg. Fitzgerald describes the ashes with language that makes it seem organic, stating how it is 'growing' which fully exhibits how the waste from the Cities is building up in these small villages as if it were farmed. The setting has no colour except 'greying' men and cars lining the street, this juxtaposes the cleanliness within the Buchanan household previously where everything was 'white' as if it were pure, everything in the valley of ashes seems dirty, a wasteland. The only colour mentioned are the eyes of Dr Eckleburg, 'gigantic and blue' memorabilia of a forgotten time, the figure now looks over 'a dumping ground'.
The setting enhances the suspicion surrounding his character, which is established primarily by his “tiny eyes in the darkness”. Nick and Jordan’s being at the Plaza Hotel provides a contrast to the setting of the dark cellar in which Gatsby and Nick have lunch with Wolfsheim. Not only does the contrast imply the illegal nature of Gatsby’s business, but also shows the differences between the East eggers and the West eggers. Jordan represents East egg, and a society which was born into money, while the previous setting represents those in West Egg that have had to work their way up. • Voice- Wolfsheim’s dialogue disturbs the pleasantries we’ve been accustomed to so far through Gatsby’s parties, which represents the upper class materialism and decadence.
The poet continues to paint a bleak portrait of the present which “rott[s] with rotting grape” yet is “sweet with the fumes” (4, 5). The repetition of the word “rot” highlights the theme of decay. The interesting choice to mention the sweetness of the fumes uncovers a contradiction where putrefaction is actually “sweet”. Moreover, “fermented potato-peel” (6) “puzzle” (6) the man, the “motes of time” (3), and the reader equally because it is “turned out and left in this grass-patch” (9). The puzzlement arises from intentionally turning out a fermented potato peel and leaving it in a grass patch, in a place of green nature, in a place of “green shadows of elm, and ginkgo and lime” (12) trees.