Scott McCloud

From the start of American history up until present day today, there have been countless railroads built, merged and even shutdown. Travelling by train is said to be one of the more convenient modes of travel even still today. According to Irish Times “Travel by train, it says, is stress-free, even relaxing. The advantages are that you can work, make and take calls on your mobile phone, read a book, eat a meal, have a drink with a colleague, snooze, stretch your legs and arrive feeling at peace…

Francis Scott Fitzgerald, well known as the author of The Great Gatsby born in St Paul, Minnesota in 1896. His family was really poor. However, with the financial support from his mother’s side, he was able to continue study. In 1917, Fitzgerald participated in WWI. There, he met Zelda Sayre, who did not like him at first because he was poor. The Side of Paradise is the first novel he wrote when he came back from the war. Zelda did not show love toward him until the book was published in 1920…

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1.0 Task 1(a): Teaching of Drama in ESL: Appropriateness of the Chosen Drama “A Night Out” (Form 2) The drama “A Night Out” by O. Henry from the Literature Component for Form 2 has been chosen for Task 1 of this assignment. “A Night Out” tells the story about an ordinary office worker, Towers Chandler who saved some amount of money from his pay check and after ten weeks, he will go out with his best clothes and eat at one of the finest restaurant in the city of New York and on one fateful…

The Great Gatsby’s narrator, Nick Carraway, states in the first pages of the book that “life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all”. In this paper, I will demonstrate that this sentence has a deeper meaning in the forthcoming events described in the novel and that Nick is not such a rational or trustworthy character as he claims to be. Paying close attention to the quote and analyzing it in detail, the narrator lets the reader know that life becomes simpler when…

The novel Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick is a riveting novel that will keep you reading until page 273. The beginning of this novel starts on the main character, Leonard Peacocks, 18th birthday, and takes place within 24 hours of his beloved day. This day is a very eventful for Leonard, not only is it his birthday, but it is also the day he wants to become a suicide murder. What has driven Leonard to such a horrific state of mind? Was it his neglectful mother, or lack of friends…

Prohibition, which lead to the materialistic gains of bootleggers and parties roaring with alcohol. Speakeasys and surreptitious parties created a sort of underground culture that lurked in the shadows of high society. In the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald overlooked the glittering and shiny objects to unveil the moral corruptness present amongst the wealthy. Describing frivolous details of Gatsby’s party, Fitzgerald allows his repudiating beliefs towards the wealthy shine through. …

William Golding was a British author who wrote many novels in the mid to late 1900s. His most famous novel Lord of the Flies was written in 1954. Though during the time period that the novel was released it was not popular, in recent years it has become a prominent novel read across schools in the U.S. The Lord of the Flies comes in the wake of World War II. The novel is set on a remote island, where a plane was shot down by an enemy missile. Passengers on the plane were mostly young boys with…

“He flipped a switch. The gray windows disappeared as the house glowed full of light” (94). Unlike the various areas that represent a motif in Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, the Valley of Ashes is portrayed as a forsaken, dull, and polluted wasteland. Fitzgerald does an exceptional job at depicting the barriers of wealth and poverty by creating this location a common motif. The Valley of Ashes is described as “...a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and…

Fifty years ago, Harper Lee had the kind of success that most writers only dream about:Shortly after her novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, was published on July 11, 1960, it hit the best-seller lists. In 1961, it won a Pulitzer Prize, and in 1962, it was made into an Academy Award-winning film. It has never gone out of print. Lee stepped out of the limelight and stopped doing interviews years ago -- and she neverwrote another book. Still, her influence has far outlasted most writers of her…