Arnold Schwarzenegger

In the short story going places, A.R Barton highlights what can go wrong when a teenager fantasizes and dreams excessively. Life without dreams is dry but life that is divorced from reality is equally harmful, bordering on in the insanity and inability to differentiate between the real world and the one which is imaginary. The protagonist in the story is a day dreamer who aspires to be a very successful person, with lots of money beside her. Only few months are left in her schooling and she…

Roger Shen Ms. Thorn AP English Language C 29 September 2017 Relic In a Small Dim Chapel In Edith Warton's The Age of Innocence, Innocence represents the ironic symbol shows the antithetical definition of Innocence from society to its real meaning, reveling how corrupt and degenerate the society has become and, on the other side, serve as a foil to indicate how valuable the true love is. At that time, the society was stratified by wealth and represented by the rich. They were regarded as the…

Everyone has a different vision of happiness but it consists of the same basic elements: money and success. In Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller, all of the characters exhibit how tough it is to find pure happiness. Just like the average person, finding happiness is their goal in life. Comparing these characters to everyday people reveals the harsh cruelty of the journey to success. Happiness, which is characterized by contentment, joy, and pleasure, is constantly shifting due to the…

F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American novelist known for his depiction of the Jazz Age. In his short story, “The Four Fists,” he wrote about a wealthy, arrogant, spoiled, young man named Samuel Meredith who have undergone significant changes as he learns valuable life lessons. Authors like F. Scott Fitzgerald accomplish character development through physical appearance, speech and actions, reaction of the character to other characters, and the character's inner thoughts and feelings. Authors…

“The Devil and Tom Walker” and “The Devil and Daniel Webster” are both brilliant literary works that present the danger of greed and the misuse of wealth. Through the main characters’ follies and rash decisions, it sets up the story to give the readers an idea on how quickly wealth can become bad. Both short stories include the Devil and views of wealth; however, there are numerous differences within the text. Alongside the differences, there are also many similarities. Throughout the story many…

The main character Truman Burbank lives happily in a small town, surrounded by water called Seahaven. He lives in happy life with a good job and kind wife until he starts to suspect that his life is a fake. The town Seahaven is a extremely big hollywood studio, which can be seen from space, where the world’s most famous reality show is recorded, The Truman Show is broadcasted to the entire world all the time. The main character of the show is Truman, who doesn’t know that his life is fake and…

The Great Gatsby is a sad story about the unattainable American Dream. A story about love, sadness, and destruction. Which if you ask me that's what all great stories have in common. And what they all have in common with the American dream. Destruction is a common theme it seems by trying to get more of something they want they must destroy something else. Either happiness or money two thing everyone tries to get but only ended up getting one or the other successfully. For instance Tom and…

Gatsby set himself on a self-destructive crusade to destroy yet recreate the past. The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald is about Jay Gatsby who uproots his entire life to around his personal quest to be reunited with his lost love, Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby’s mission takes him from poverty to wealth, to a reunion with his beloved, and to his tragic death. The story of Gatsby is the story of a man who is pinned between an ever-consuming shame and immense guilt. Gatsby is ashamed of the fact that…

Lady Macbeth is a character who self destructed on the road of her metaphorical success. She strived for her desires with a one-route journey, forgetting to stop at a gas station. At the beginning she had no second thoughts, complete droopiness, only forces to pick up the scrapes of her very much ambitious yet soft-minded husband, Macbeth. She reached to the point where she sacrificed her feminism only to reach her outrageous intentions. Without considering her feminine aspect plays a big part…

The Real Life Message An Analysis of Three Messages from the Great Gatsby The “The Great Gatsby” is an amazing book written in 1925 that depicts the life of the people living in the 1920’s. This time was a time of a love of money, drugs, partying, drinking, and sex. This time period took place right after war and a time of depression and it led to the rise of billionaires and economic wealth. One interesting thing is that no drugs were illegal at this time and doctors actually prescribed…