Arnold Schoenberg

Yu Hua’s To Live and Zhang Yimou’s film interpretation both tell a similar story. They both follow the life of Fugui, a man who is at first a rambunctious gambler, and they illustrate his transformation into a man who loves his family and will do whatever it takes to give them a good life. They are both banned in China for their critical views on communism and the Chinese government. However, the book is quite a bit more detailed than the movie, and at times, the the settings are different. As a…

The Great Gatsby is a slender beast of a novel. Written By Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald in April 1925. The novel is a virtuoso display of personality, Eloquently phrased and exquisitely plotted. The descriptions are jarringly beautiful. The novel is magnificently complex and rich. The Great Gatsby is a story of the thwarted love between a naive man and a careless woman however the main theme of the novel are much more complex and are of slightly less romantic scope. .This is a beautiful story…

One of the best pioneers of the twentieth century, and maybe of the thousand years, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was conceived on October second, 1869, in Gujarat and was killed January 30th, 1948. He was both a standout amongst the best Leaders of the century, and, by his norms, one of the minimum fruitful. He was appealing; however he was additionally think and scientific. Gandhi was all that much a result of his times, yet one of his most noteworthy wellsprings of persuasion was the…

In The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald ends the novel portraying Nick Carrawayś thoughts on both Gatsby and the future. This passage is used as a way to end the story and conclude Nickś narrative while he is on his way back to the Midwest due to the corruption he has seen in New York. After Gatsbyś death Nick realizes how the people in New York look out only for themselves in the way that Klipspringer did when he refused to go to the funeral. This scene illustrates the theme of the…

Character Analysis Sebastian. J SG15 The title character and protagonist in the story, known as Gatsby, is a wealthy young man who lives in West Egg in his immense mansion. We got to know him through the parties he threw every weekend, parties that he was famous for hosting. Although, Gatsby’s identity remained unknown until Nick was first invited to a party that’s when Nick first met Jay Gatsby. Gatsby, born as James Gatz, grew up poor on a farm in North Dakota. It was from here he ran away…

The cartoon “The American pipe dream“ by Mike Keefe, from 2012, deals with the American dream in our days and the impossibility to make it. In the center of the background, you can see a big villa with a garage and two cars, as well as a garden. It has white walls and green pitched roofs. The doorway is big and there are many windows and a chimney. The house looks like a perfect family home and is obviously the aim of the young family, you can find in the lower left corner of the first layer of…

As its title suggests, place and space figure heavily in Jhumpa Lahiri’s latest novel, “The Lowland.” The reader finds herself journeying from the craggy shores of Rhode Island, to the bustling streets of Post-independence India, and finally in the hyacinth filled pools of the titular lowland area of Tollygunge, Calcutta. It is here that the mystery and tragedy of Lahiri’s novel takes place, a compassionate tale of family, betrayal, and political ideology set against the backdrop of the Naxalite…

“No one would have taken them for brothers.” Truth be told, this is the main thought that can be drawn throughout the whole short story, “The Rich Brother” by Tobias Wolff. From the very beginning of the story this is said to the reader, it’s clear that these two brother Pete and Donald are polar opposites of one another. The reader will discover from this that Pete and Donald no matter what time it was in their life, they had had problems with one each other. This would infer that Pete and…

The American Dream was originally about the discovery of happiness and equality. However, In the novel “The Great Gatsby”, Fitzgerald manages to illustrate how this dream became perverted into a desire for wealth and the belief that money is the key to happiness. For many, the prospect of achieving the “American Dream” became a moral vacuum and led to recklessness, selfishness and destruction. Fitzgerald uses symbols and motifs including decadent parties, the valley of the Ashes, the Eyes of T.J…

Charles Sobhraj doesn't call what he does as a "murder"; he calls it 'cleaning'. Charles Sobhraj, the unimaginably enchanting man with a vile criminal personality, had a novel usual way of doing things. He would tempt different ladies, bed them and take their travel passports. He could figure out how to do this since he was super-sure of his alluring capacities. Charles has ventured to drive force his break from a Delhi high-security jail - and maybe his own recover, as well - to abstain from…