Great Disappointment

As said by presidential candidate, Marco Rubio, “You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction”. The novels The Great Gatsby and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are classified as two of the most classic and renowned of American literature. The story of Huck Finn is a satirical bildungsroman about a young boy who goes on an adventure with his escaped slave friend. The two travel down the Mississippi River…

The creation of social media and social networks have increased communications among individuals to a great extent. With those extensions, the younger generation has the power to create their own image and identity. Depending on the individual’s authenticity, they can portray themselves truly or hide behind the false realities they believe in. Turkle argues…

The Cause of Nick Caraway’s Inability to Adapt to Eastern Life We all have dreams that we fantasize so much that they may be in contrast to reality. We have all experienced the utter disappointment of having the harsh reality of the world make itself known to us. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald presents us Nick Caraway, a meek Midwesterner both intrigued and repulsed by the roaring extravagance of the East in the 1920s. Nick’s enthusiasm and confidence to establish a successful life…

Canada, among other countries was hit the hardest by the Great Depression and suffered substantial losses. Their government failed to provide adequate means of support in time, trade dropped significantly, and the employment rates and the economy were at an all-time low; causing a large number of actions to be taken by citizens to stand up for what they believed they needed. The Great Depression began on October 29, 1929 and would last for 10 years until the Second World War. Canada was faced…

Great expectations; written during Economic Prosperity and Religious Controversy. Unlike other novels where the theme is revolved around love, romance and fairy-tale with grand mythical creatures. Dickens was writing about the social experience of the first generation of the Victorian age he outlines social injustice, child poverty and lack of education. Great Expectation is a bildungsroman where Dickens writes about the life of pip from an infant age to adulthood. when the readers first meet…

change a person’s life forever, but it does not have to define them. Everyone has experienced suffering or pain at some point in their life, but the difference is how they coped with the agony that they felt. Great Expectations is a book that revolves around the hopes, struggles and, disappointments of others. A surplus of the characters are plagued with tremendous loss and face horrible and unimaginable tragedies. One character in particular, Miss Havisham, is confronted by catastrophe and…

tanking of our economy a few years ago, Americans have gotten back from much worse things like the Great Depression and the Civil War. In which in one case it may have just been the economy but having a huge impact on the people. Whether it be a failing economy we have proven time after time we can rally ourselves from worse situations. As Marco Rubio said, “We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction.” The American Dream still keeps on living,…

himself in order for them to keep living their excessive lifestyle. He never gave up on his dreams, and because of that he wrote his third novel, The Great Gatsby. It was not as successful as his first novel had been, but it put Fitzgerald back in the game and made…

to opening: People describe the wealthy as more successful than the poor. The Great Gatsby written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925 that follows a fictional town with fictional characters in Long Island in the 1920s.. The major themes are classism because it focuses on the wealth and the different views it has on values. This shows the significance of the middle class to the lower class in The Great Gatsby. It starts off with Nick Carraway, an average individual who is the only…

In 1937, John Steinbeck writes a dramatic tragedy, Of Mice and Men. George and Lennie are two ranch hands who can not keep a job during the Great Depression. Lennie and George have a dream, to own a piece of land with a house. Every ranch hand has this dream that Lennie and George can not seem to achieve. This is because Lennie is always “messing” things up. Lennie is a giant; he is a strong guy who is childlike that does not realize his own strength. George is his reciprocal, very short and…