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Characterizing Setting T.C. Boyle’s “Greasy Lake” employs use of setting to contextualize the events of the narrative. The characters, Digby, Jeff, and the narrator are teens in the peak of rebellion, three thrill seekers looking to break up the monotony of their lives with their misadventures at the “Greasy Lake”, a refuse-filled pond that is a hub of drug use and crime. On one such excursion, the group encounters a man who typifies what they believe themselves to be, a “Bad greasy character”.…

“And would it have been worth it, after all? Would it have been worth it?” That’s the question- the question that so many of us face every day and a question that is pondered in the poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot. Eliot’s transcendent use of diction and tone tells the story of an old man who is unhappy with his life and the things that he hadn’t accomplished. The man in the poem is tired of his superficial surroundings and he wishes that he had done something more…

Have you ever wondered what the life of a dumpsite boy would be? Selling scraps and pieces found in a large area of trash for money.Imagine that! The novel, “Trash” by Andy Mulligan should be awarded as the Man Booker Prize of the year as it reveals to us the other side of the world, the poverty and suffering. A novel where a theme of bonds and powerful relationships of boys who are determined to find their fates and future. I assure that you will experience exciting journeys the characters in…

The Representation of Everyday Life in T. S. Eliot’s ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ Modernism is a philosophical movement that arose from wide-scale changes in Western society, such as industrialism, rapid growth of cities, and the horrors of WWI, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Modernism rejects earlier ideas, such as enlightenment thinking, in part due to the religious undertones it entails. In 1915, Modernist poet T. S. Eliot’s famous poem, ‘The Love Song of J.…

Booker T. Washington and WEB Du Bois are very comparable yet dissimilar in many ways. Booker T. Washington was not demanding fro African Americans to be treated equally. Washington thought the most reasonable method was for blacks to escape the poverty they were stuck in. WEB Du Bois on the other hand wanted instant black equality and for blacks to be integrated. Du Bois strategy is more useful than Booker T. Washington’s for many reasons. Booker T. Washington was born April 5, 1856…

The issue with appearances is that people constantly overlook and judge themselves, which creates a barrier of the reality and the mind. According to Güven, “Eliot implies that nobody shows his real face in this fragmented modern world, and that is the reason why Prufrock needs time to prepare a false face for himself” (Güven 82). Prufrock cannot help but place a barrier between the people and himself due to the pretentious nature of modern people. For example, Prufrock interrupts the poem by…

That is one of the reasons the model-T was so popular. The model-T was built for 19 years and it was built on an assembly line for 14 years. Although the model-T was popular it was not Henry's first built car. The first car Henry built was the Quadricycle which was made in a shed that had to have the door widened to get it out. The Quadricycle was…

The poem “Mortal Man” by Kendrick Lamar is not known to be “your average poem”. Although “just a poem”, it is a free verse poem written inside of a song also called “Mortal Man” by Kendrick Lamar which makes it really distinct and sui generis. Within the poem, Kendrick basically describes inner conflicts within himself that he seems to have no control over. He begins to question his life as well as who he really is and what exactly he is truly here for. The title becomes most significant at the…

T.S Eliot wrote a poem, “Preludes,” which could be a critic of modernity as well as industrialism. Furthermore, the suffering it brings. This is included by first describing the setting in which the poem takes place on line 6 Eliot writes, “The grimy scraps,” and line 7, “Of withered leaves about your feet,” show it. Eliot uses words like grimy and withered to show a setting that is bleak. Then, in the third stanza of the poem Eliot switches to a second person point of view. That means the…

people tramping into town" is an alliteration and a literal image. The author creates a mental image for the reader and puts her into the mind of the little boy. The alliteration is to emphasize the way in which the people were heading into town. '[T]ramping' is also an onomatopoeia by describing the sound that the people are making as they walk. In the first line of the fourth stanza, assonance is present in the form of the 'I' sound in words like I, find, and higher. The 'I' sound helps…