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Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn is a great novel that gives us a look into the culture and actions of people in the pre-civil war south. Mark did it by including certain townspeople to show off a trait off the south. He uses the Grangerfords and Shepherdsons to show how violent and aggressive the south was. He also included the Duke and the King with how there was no trust and good law enforcement in the south. Lastly, he included Tom Sawyer's Aunt and Uncle. They show how the south wasn’t all…

The story “ Three Questions” was written by Leo Tolstoy and it explains deeply what bothers the king of the kingdom. According to the narrator, the King came up with three questions that trouble him and anyone who interprets best will be rewarded bountifully. The three questions are as follow; “how can I learn to do the right thing at the right time? Who are the people I most need, and to whom should I, therefore, pay more attention than to the rest? And, what affairs are the most important, and…

intellectuals. After three years at Princeton, he decided to join the army, where he met his future wife, Zelda Sayre, who rejected him at first. In 1925, Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby, a story that touched on the subject of the American dream as well as some of his own interpersonal relationships (Baym and Levine 963-964). The Great Gatsby is narrated and told from the eyes of Nick Carraway, a sensible man who had recently moved to New York from the American Midwest to work in the bond…

Author of Against Happiness, Eric Wilson, tested “books on how to become happier,” to see if they work (Begley 454). He tried to wear a smile, took up jogging, watched uplifting television shows, and began using “great” and “wonderful” in his conversations. However, none of these things made him happy. Wilson argues that the happiness movement “‘leads to half­lives, to bland existences,’” (Begley 455). People who are constantly happy would be content with their lives…

The Princess of the Midnight Ball, by Jessica Day George, is a retelling of the twelve dancing princess. The story begins with the end of a war between two countries Westfalin and Analousia, and a young solider, Galen Werner, heading to the capital of Westfalin. Galen is the son of soldier and an army wash woman. Both of Galen’s parents died in the war and he is headed to Bruch to find his mother’s sister Liesel Orm. On his long march he meets a strange old woman that he gives some food. In…

Emmanuel Alvarez Mrs. Lutrell English 11 5th February 2018 Lennies devastated American Dream Of Mice and Men was a story beloved in American Literature with the setting of 1930’s and John Steinbeck at the helm. However, this beloved story comes with some startling discoveries as the underlying narrative is one of despair, alienation, and even dehumanization of the human body. As seen with Steinbeck's description and characterization of Lennie throughout the tale. Lennie is written as a giant…

Have you ever lied about something to boost success or earn something valuable? Certain characters in the novel, The Great Gatsby tend to lie in order to achieve something as well. The themes, the nature of lies and deceit and the fallacy of the American Dream, pertain to the novel as a whole due to the actions the characters create or participate in. The author, Fitzgerald, includes certain behavior that his characters do that applies to the theme the nature of lying, that can affect the…

In Harper Lee’s, To Kill a Mockingbird, social forces like gender, race, and class all play a role in society today and many years ago. To Kill a Mockingbird provides good examples on how these factors played a role in the past and provide a base for what the future holds. During the 1930s, in the town of Maycomb, Jem and Scout face these problems. Sexism and gender problems were a big part of how the main characters Jem and Scout grew up. Feminism is a big problem that affects the way we…

(Bildungsroman) would paint, and in the message of challenged traditions as the Victorian girdling had constrained. The pathos of the Victorian novel is mostly based on a foundation-emotion of isolation and detachment, as the main persona Pip in Dickens’ Great Expectations (1861) is an orphan; and the parallel character of the jilted spinster Ms. Havisham likewise personifies isolation in that she lives apart in the jungled manor where hardly any visitors are accepted. Ms. Havisham’s eerie dress…

or she wants by working hard. Therefore, it has always been a subject in many films and books. Francis Scott Fitzgerald, an American author, also dealt with this topic in his novel “The Great Gatsby”, which was written in 1925. This paper aims at providing an analysis of the American Dream with regard to “The Great Gatsby”. It defines the American Dream and how it is reflected in this novel with a view on success, wealth and social mobility. This essay is divided into two parts, for giving an…