Arnold van Gennep

It was 1920 in New York City, a certain ineffable aura pervaded the musty city air, an aura that would allure dreamers for the decade to follow. The nouveau riche flocked to New York, where they could live out their dreams with other idealists. This sparked what is now known as the Roaring Twenties, a romantic period characterized by its optimism and nonchalance. Concurrently, the city also saw one of the most important movements in African American history: The Harlem Renaissance. This was the…

The Stanley Hotel In the depths of Colorado’s Estes Valley, sits a grand hotel with a history greater than the eye can see from first look. Freelan Oscar Stanley stumbled upon this magnificent site when suffering from consumption. Even though Freelan and his wife Flora were from an East Coast society, they were willing to try and live a life in the valley. They had a private home, but agreed it was too small if they wished to have parties or guests, so they compromised to build a hotel. With its…

In the world of Seahaven the producers and creators did anything to keep Truman in Seahaven. Including newspapers, with the most to the point headlines. Like when Truman showed signs of wanting to leave they came up with a headline that said The Best Place on Earth: Seahaven voted the world’s top town. Truman was trying to leave Seahaven to go find Sylvia in Fiji, who was an actor who tried to tell him the truth and Truman fell in love with her. Someone overheard him or they tapped the phone…

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…