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Baz Luhrmann's adaptation that parallels the novel The Great Gatsby’s characters, events, and themes. The Great Gatsby is about a gentleman named Jay Gatsby who is a millionaire, other characters who each play a role in Gatsby’s life. The effectiveness of Luhrmann’s version of The Great Gatsby had brought the scenes, characters, and themes to have a visual representation. The effectiveness of the film to represent the novel The Great Gatsby. The actors who played the characters from the novel…

Everything in The Great Gatsby revolves around identity. Without the prominent display of identity in the book, the characters would have no traits or aspects that make them who they are. All of the relationships described in The Great Gatsby are built upon the identity of wealth and status. Many attempt to change or alter their identity throughout the story to fulfill their desires and wishes, but it is shown that, like Jay Gatsby, many fail to do so in the end. Most of the relationships in…

Rashomon is another masterpiece from Akira Kurosawa, yet this film was also remained as a black and white classic film in movie history due to it’s epicness. Akira adapted this story from Akutagawa Ryunosuke, a well-known and talented writer in Japan. I had already read some of Akutagawa’s selected short stories before I watched this film. I found that Akira had combined two stories into his movie, which was “In a bamboo groove” and “Rashomon”. In fact, the main storyline in this movie was…

The book Turtles all the way Down by John Green takes you through the life of a high schooler named Aza. Her best friend, and partner in crime, Daisy notices a $100,000 reward for the whereabouts of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett. They have an unfair advantage, Aza was friends with Russell Pickett’s son Davis. Throughout the story Aza and Davis grow in their relationship. She has to manage school, Daisy, and Davis. She does all of this will trying to function with her anxiety. Her anxiety…

Presentation 'The street not taken " ballad was composed by Robert ice. He was one of america's heading twentieth century Poets and a four time champ of the Pulitzer prize. His temperances are exceptional. His ballads are human, conversational, hilarious, and sentimental. In 1894, he had his first ballad "My Butterfly : a requiem", distributed in The Independent, a week by week scholarly diary situated in New york city. He composed this ballad 'The street not taken' when he was perched on a…

Atticus cannot be Simply Summed up as a Racist One line that is always used to describe the early 1900s is “that person is Racist”. This doesn’t truly tell the story of what was going on. A good example of this in TKM when Atticus is bringing Calpurnia home she sits in the Back. To understand this idea a backstory is needed. In TKM Atticus is a lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape. He puts much more effort in than any other lawyer would have, especially in the south. Some may stop and…

Chapter 4: Narrative Techniques in the Novels and the Films This study deals almost entirely with films derived from canonical novels. The novels chosen for the purpose of this research originate from varied parts of the world. One notices that they differ in their origin as well as the time period. Even though the novels are all chosen carefully from the best works of twentieth century, they have emerged at different points in time through the modern age. The places of origin differ too. One…

Miller successfully portray the dynamics of a dysfunctional American family during the 1940’s. The aspirations of an ambitious man in pursuit of his version of the American dream however became oblivious to the underlying concerns that was existing in his family. Willy’s strained relationship with Linda, his wife, Biff and Happy, his sons, was a result of his quest for the American dream. Willy experienced abandonment through the course of his life, leaving him in greater despair each time.…

OSCAR WILDE: A STUDY IN ART, MORTALITY, AND PLEASURE PURSUIT Hussein Jasim Mohammed Al-Husseini English Department University of Misan Amarah, Maysan, Iraq Abstract Oscar Wild's attitude to hedonism would not be of an ordinary variety. Thus, it becomes all the more necessary to focus this study on Hedonism - Its Philosophical Bases in intertwining connection with the extraordinary strange personality of Oscar Wilde. His mind during its vigorous growth of creativity for one decade and more…

John Steinbeck’s, The Grapes of Wrath, is a glimpse of the reality behind Americas historical Great Depression, though it’s intent is much deeper than that. Steinbeck reinforces the idea of family unity and fighting together with the Joads and their journey. The deeper message that Steinbeck wanted to make with the Joad family is unclear and their future beyond the last chapter is also left to the assumption of the reader. However, chapter thirty reveals a great deal of information when looked…