Blind Side Essay

Jim Cullen defines the American Dream to be derived from the goals of the puritans which was to achieve a better life. This is seen through two elements within Cullen’s definition which are the social mobility and accumulation of wealth. Social mobility is basically the ability for one to elevate their social status or economic standing. The accumulation of wealth is described to be self-explanatory and is the ability of one to earn an immense about of wealth. These elements are embodied…

Ethan Frome, a 1911 novel by Edith Wharton is a novel featuring uniquely American characters. The novel itself begins and ends in the present, that is the time that the book was published, but the bulk is told in flashback. The flashbacks serve to explain how Ethan has ended up as he has and filling in the back story, which includes no shortage of pain and suffering to the point that it is beyond any possible justification. The book itself is also moral in many respects and while these can be…

Bougie, it’s a word that my brother has called me multiple times and I was never a hundred percent sure what he was really calling me. In an attempt to contradict him I looked up the meaning of the word, and sadly I couldn’t contradict him a bit. The word bougie is stolen from the French word bourgeois, which means -according to Webster's dictionary- marked by a concern for material interests and respectability and a tendency toward mediocrity. In America, the slang word bougie translates to…

Readers get introduced to both the East Egg and the West Egg, with West Egg being “the less fashionable of the two”(1.14).Due to West Egg being the “new money ” side because its inhabitants have worked for their wealth, rather than the East Egg whose inhabitants were born in a wealthy family. Both sides also have different goals and lifestyles, people in the West egg want to become wealthy, and most of them come from a scenario of rags to riches. For example, Jay Gatsby who wasn't…

The Great Gatsby and Winter dreams, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, reveal that love can be both wonderful and unsatisfying. These novels show that love isn’t always what you think it’s going to be. Winter Dreams is almost like a outline of The Great Gatsby. The characters in both novels share common characteristics. Also, the themes are similar to each other. In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby fell in love with Daisy. Daisy and Gatsby were madly in love with each other. Unfortunately, Gatsby…

The Great Gatsby Nick Carraway: Negatively Capable or not? In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick Carraway is a character that prides himself on his ability to “reserve all judgment” in life with the endeavor to pursue and maintain the negatively capable persona that he has been fabricating over the years. On many occasions Nick tends to contradict himself and invalidate his claims of being “one of the few tolerant people left in society”. On more than one occasion, Nick has been…

In the book, The Great Gatsby, there are two main male characters, Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby. These men have similar interests such as wealth and Daisy Fay, but have extremely different ways about obtaining their goals. The most common similarity between the two is their shared love for Daisy Fay. Neither of them can picture a life without her in it. Even though Tom has an affair with a girl in New York, he still can never stop loving Daisy. He will “always come back [to Daisy], and in [his]…

“When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the quiet darkness.” (Fitzgerald 26) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald characterized every character in the book. Fitzgerald used color to describe the main characters. He also used symbol to show the characters past and present. F. Scott Fitzgerald characterized Jay Gatsby by green as a color and the clock as a symbol. Fitzgerald used colors to describe Jay Gatsby through the book, one example is…

never the same. Even if people are diverse, we shouldn’t judge them, or make fun of. Each person has a special gift, like Ponyboy, he would never gave up and shows courage and perseverance, that is why he is my Bae. Cherry is Soc and lives on the other side of town. She would always stand up for what is right and hates when the Soc’s and Greasers fight, that is one reason she is my BFF. On the other hand, my frenemy would have to be Bob, he was always spoiled and gets everything he wants.…

A Nightmare “Money makes the world go round.” This is a common, yet deceptive, phrase everyone has heard. The negative consequences of wealth are always overshadowed by the status and material possessions associated with money. Money produces corruption, and this is evident in both fiction and the real world. Raymond Chandler contrasts the oil fields at the beginning of The Big Sleep to their appearance at the end to convey the destructive corrupt quality of money as it allows crimes to be…