Benedict Arnold

A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, is a classic piece of social commentary and satire. Monseigneur is a French aristocrat who is known for the way he spends his unending money. Chapter seven as a whole explains his complete power in France due to his prosperity. The fourth paragraph of the chapter perfectly sums up the type of person the lord is. Chapter seven is full of irony, tone, and allusion that is used in an incisive manner to describe Monseigneur as an appalling man.…

Walker sat at his impressive desk in his impressive office, with the Chagall painting, Eame’s chairs, with first edition books lining his bookshelves, not seeing any of it he was glaring down at the presentation folder brought back from the meeting with WestMat, running his finger absently over the who we are page. Wavery Matthew’s smiling photo stared back up at him. Over the years, he’d thought about her occasionally, but not enough to ask about her to anyone. The sex had been mind blowing.…

Hidden Flaws “The perfect people are only good at hiding their flaws”. This quote perfectly defines the theme of the novel, The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The book told the story of a man named Jay Gatz. He tried to win back the love of his life, Daisy Buchanan. The idea that people hide behind masks to disguise their inner flaws is portrayed repeatedly throughout the whole novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald introduced Jay Gatsby as a wealthy and successful ‘Oxford man’. He would…

Journal #1 The story opens up with Mccandless talking about how he wanted to leave his family because his family was rich and because of that he didn't have to struggle to get much or in other words he did not work for anything. So he decided he was going to leave and when he left he didn't tell his parents and he left with nothing but his books and he burnt his money and gave some of it to charity. McCandless says at long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his…

The main reason why Mr. Gatsby is famous around New York is because he throws huge parties every weekend at his mansion and anyone can go to the. One day Mr. Gatsby’s chauffeur brings Nick a invitation to his upcoming party. Nick ended up going to the party, but felt out of place. While he is there he hears many different rumors about Mr. Gatsby. Nick then see’s Jordan Baker there and goes to talk to her. Jordan’s friend Lucille tells Nick that Mr. Gatsby was a German spy during the war.…

The Meaning of Wealth In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, wealth is viewed differently by many characters. To Huck wealth is a burden that he does not want, “I don’t want to spend it. I don’t want it at all— nor the six thousand, nuther. I want you to take it; I want to give it to you—the six thousand and all.” (Twain, 18). Huck maintains this idea throughout the novel, seeing wealth as a burden that he does not need to be happy. His idea of wealth vastly contrasts with his…

American ship captain Samuel Barret Eades first heard of the specimen from a Dutch West Indies trader, who claimed it was a genuine mummified mermaid that had been caught by Japanese fisherman. So intrigued by this bizarre discovery, Captain Eades sold his ship in order to purchase the specimen for the exorbitant price of six thousand dollars. Then he bought passage on a ship to London, and brought his new acquisition with him. He had high hopes of making a fortune exhibiting the mermaid. Eades…

attitudes. The changes in spending due to economic growth harbored an egotism that underscored much of what was seen on the Broadway stage in the 1920s. From 1920-1930, Broadway produced more musicals than any other ten-year period, with grossing figures for new musicals and revues reaching unprecedented heights. After the Armistice of 1918, the pleasure-seeking, prohibition-despising, boom-rich American public enabled the musical theatre to revel in a decade of luxury and wastefulness and…

Magicians are often referred as “The Great-”, in the book The Great Gatsby, F.Scott Fitzgerald’s use of this in his title provides a quick insight into the book. Magicians deceive their audience, play tricks on them yet allure them. The magician is compared to the character of Jay Gatsby, who has to make his audience believe that he belongs to a higher class than he was really born into. By his use of speech, money and clothing, Gatsby is able to essentially deceive those who watch him. Gatsby…

Genial Green In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the character of Nick Carraway is portrayed as very intellectual, creative, who enjoys the company of other people, but likes to stick to himself. Based on a personality test, the color to best describe Nick is green. Green represents calm and under control, defining traits that I would describe the easy person Nick is with. Nick is kind of weird. The reader could compare him to a wallflower. Although he goes to Gatsby’s parties, he is…