What you have to do is trust your own story. Get the hell out of the way and let it tell itself.” (106). This comment reflects on the idea that the stories force their own way out, and in a way tell themselves. This is because after being repressed for so long, they sort of just blurt out. I found ‘The Man I killed’ to be a particularly interesting story out of this book.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Many scholars and critics complain that Mark Twain botches the ending of his novel. I think the ending is was consistent with the entire novel and is important the way it is. Huckleberry Finn (Huck) is actually poised and ready for change in this life and his progression was not destroyed as a result of the ending. As a reader I was able to see Huck go from an unsure boy to a confident young adult with a great sense of right and wrong. We are reminded again with the ending to remember that Huck is just a simple boy who just wants to go with the flow of whatever life brings.
Gatsby however is shown more positively even though he represents everything that Nick, our narrator, is not. Comparing Tom and Gatsby it becomes obvious how different they are. Tom was born to wealth and expects thing to go his way, he is domineering and a bit of a brute, this is shown when he physically attacks Myrtle in chapter 2, when she challenges his alpha male attitude. Gatsby on the other hand is calm throughout the novel and does not steep to Toms level of physical violence, this makes Tom seem like a savage, especially since he is representing
Alyssa Tippens 21 September 2011 Whedon 5 Whedon-Final Written Exam “If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life” (p.2). Within the novel The Great Gatsby by F, Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby is, if anything, a very misunderstood man. Like every person that has ever lived, he is by no means perfect. He pushes through life in an attempt to live out his dreams and create a life different from the one he was born into. Gatsby becomes corrupted as a result of his surroundings and participates in evil things.
The rejection of reality ultimately led to his demise. Nick had such an immense respect for Jay’s imagination and pursuit of his dreams that he dubbed him the “great Gatsby”. This title could be worthy of divine figures, which is exactly how nick saw Gatsby, a divine figure that pushed the limits of probability and overlooked obstacles. As defined in this quotation “The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was the son of god-a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that-and he must be about his fathers business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty” (Fitzgerald 98).
“I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul” (Henley). In Ayn Rand’s novella, Anthem, Prometheus’ society deems “the best in him” as evildoing, but Prometheus soon comes to the realization that this “sin” is in fact a virtue and that no other person can control him or his fate. Sin in the Anthem society is a broad thing, and is rather easy to commit. In this society, one mustn’t put ink to paper and write something that no other brother can see (Rand 17). Prometheus, who is known as Equality 7-2521 for the majority of the novella, keeps a journal and writes his feelings and ideas, and this is completely illegal in the society.
Altogether, Guy Montag’s change in heart towards books is a blessing. He realizes that his society lacked a hunger for knowledge and wants to do something about it. The true theme in the novel, “Too much mindless entertainment,” proves it is necessary for any society to have the knowledge of the past, which is recorded in books. It can prevent man from making the same mistakes as in the
Chapter One * The novel begins with the narrator, Nick Carraway, recounting about what his father had once told him, and saying that he is “inclined to reserve all judgments,” and that he had met this man named Gatsby, who “represented everything for which I [Gatsby] have an unaffected scorn,” and had, at the end “Gatsby turned out alright.” He then says that it was the “foul dust” that floated in the “wake of his [Gatsby’s] dreams” that made the narrator feel closed out from the interests of the “sorrows” and “elations of man.” With this, our narrator launches into the story. After his service in World War I, the narrator moved from his Midwest roots (namely Chicago) to the island of West Egg, in New York. Carraway reveals that the
We’ve all have heard the saying “whatever doesn’t kill us will only make us stronger”. It is clear that one day or another our time to come will come. In the article Hamlet’s Soliloquy he maintains that life is nothing but a long list of troubles and we should just give up. But, he himself writes “With a bare bodkin*? Who would fardels bear, dagger and burdens?” (Armstrong).
Being “by birth a Genovese,” and belonging to “one of the most distinguished [families] of that republic”, coupled with his conceived omnipotence after creating life, Frankenstein believes he can predict other’s motives and solve problems single-handedly, betraying an excess of pride (14). For instance, Victor fails to register his own advice that he relates to Captain Walton, which expresses that “if the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and… destroy your taste for… simple pleasures… then that study is certainly unlawful… [and] not befitting [of] the human mind”(56). Instead, this character continues with his experiments, believing that adhering to this rule would cease human progress, and thus destroy his vision. As well, he neglects the guidance of his own family. When Victor is thirteen, he chances to find a volume of the works of a famous natural philosopher.