Deeds for the Dead Humans are said to be the only animals capable of contemplating their own death. We know that we are born and, every day ensuing, death surrounds us. We have given to death an emotion—sadness, sorrow, grief, mourning, and perhaps even anger, frustration, confusion, helplessness. We know that it is at the end—it is our only end—and it is the only thing more powerful than life. Death is something that humans, from every culture and from every part of the world, have a mutual understanding of and it has a way of bringing us together.
We are all gathered here today to remember and celebrate the life of Mr. Jay Gatsby. It shocks me to see how empty his house is today. Most of you knew Jay for his extravagant parties, but today it seems like his house is practically empty. The first time I ever saw Jay was at one of his many parties, and I continued to attend every party after that. They were just so fun, so full of life, so exciting!
From the very beginning, the views were bombarded with horrible and tragic animations of Meryl dying, the animations were thoughts Meryl had been the result of her, constantly being exposed to deaths. When Meryl comes back from her father’s funeral, she begins to imagine how she would die, where it is a train derailing and crushing her, getting run over by a car while crossing the road or just being strangled by a stranger she just saw. These animations tell the viewer how Meryl is obsessed with imagining extremely pessimistic situations, the animations don’t always occur when Meryl experience something tragic but it’s constantly swimming through her thoughts. For example when Nick and Meryl make love, Meryl imagines she gets AIDS or end up with multiple sick and deformed babies. Meryl’s animations always revolve around her getting killed or end up in a horrible situation, which illustrates the fears and anxieties she is experiencing.
Ellie again questions herself and her actions when she blows up a lawnmower to save her friends. She battles with her decision and believes she is a murderer. Although the choices she makes may deliver pain and trauma to others, her human spirit shines through the chaos to help her succeed. Through the characters in ‘Tomorrow When the War Began’, Marsden shows the human spirit’s ability to grow and triumph. Ellie’s decisive ability and her morals are thrown into chaos when she arrives at the family house and finds her dogs dead.
They eat all of their food and have parties in their house every night. We see Telemachus realize that the suitors are overstaying their welcome in book 1: But tell me about this and spare me nothing. What’s this banqueting, this crowd carousing here? And
The word that can sum up many of the themes in the book is position. The word covers themes like class, wealth, social standing, and others. Social standing was very important in The Great Gatsby. For example, Tom's social standing allowed him to treat everyone, including his own wife, like dirt, except on rare occasions when he felt like being helpful. Gatsby's social standing allowed him to be generous, because everyone expected it of him after attending or hearing about one of his lavish parties.
Jay Gatsby threw parties so everyone can attend. “My eyes fell on Gatsby, standing alone on the marble steps and looking from one group to another with approving eyes.” Gatsby throws parties so everyone can see what he possesses and achieved. He especially wants daisy to see which the quote was said by her with groups of people at the mansion. Gatsby does not want anyone to find out that he throws parties mostly for Daisy to come by. ‘I heard that
The journey that a person takes in life similar to Santiago’s in The Alchemist clearly illustrates the factors that contribute towards one’s identity. The relationships established during this journey also play a part in establishing a person’s identity. The positive and negative experiences in life along with the friendships established also plays a key role in making a person’s identity. Determination has a huge impact on our identity. Determination is focusing on our goal and putting all the effort in our power to achieve it.
Alexie writes, “He could see his uncles slugging each other with such force that they had to be in love. Strangers would never want to hurt each other that badly” (Alexie 2). The night goes on, in a swirl of fighting, cussing, and heavy drinking as Victor tries to make his way to his parent’s room. Finally, the story ends with everyone in attendance at the party, outside in the snow, fighting, dancing, and having sex. Instead of our “Modern Family” happy ending, where the family end their evening
We feel sad for Macbeth s death, but we also feel happy that he was executed. His death restored the country from chaos (the minions turn d wild in nature) and illness to freedom and harmony (Malcolm: We will perform in measure, time, and place). The emotional speech by Mac duff about the death of his family that was caused by Macbeth is another classic example of the bitterness that we should