Scott Westerfeld

People think that famous and rich people will have a comfortable and happy life. Therefore, most human dreams are to become rich and famous like Mark Zuckerberg, Warren Buffett, or Bill Gates to improve their lives. However, richness and fame have both disadvantages and advantages which can enormously change people’s lives in many ways. In addition, I was born in a small peasant and harmony family which brings a frugal and warm life to me. Certainly, if I were rich and famous, my life would be…

During the last two decades, Hirokazu Koreeda has emerged as the contemporary master of Japanese family drama, with films like Nobody Knows, Still Walking, Like Father, Like Son and many more. After the Storm continues his legacy in the genre. Ryota, an ex prize-winning novelist has fallen on hard times. He has stopped writing and currently works in a PI agency. However, he spends the money he earns (with shady tactics) on gambling, and is constantly broke. His wife, Kyoko has divorced him, and…

Is Success Tangible? Arthur Miller’s 1949 play Death of a Salesman is a very powerful play that discusses not only the slow demise of Willy Loman, the aging salesman with two unsuccessful sons, but also highlights the different views that people can have regarding success. Willy Loman, the father of Biff Loman and brother of Ben, is a salesman who has dedicated his life to building up his reputation. His son Biff has spent much of his life trying to find a job he truly loves to do, but has…

Ann Landers once said “Love is friendship that has caught on fire, It settles less than perfection and makes allowances for human weakness.” In The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins’,the overarching theme is teenage love. The main character is Katniss Everdeen. Katniss and Peeta both fall for each other. Peeta told Katniss that he had a crush on her on the 1st day of school. They both work together on the games. Teenage love can be complicated for some people and by the relationship that Katniss…

thousand dollars. Gaalee, Grand-mama, you rich” (53). Travis’ response shows that like Beneatha his English also contains slangs. George Murchison who is also Beneatha’s boyfriend is a man who has assimilated himself totally within the American culture, and speaks the kind of African American English, college going students speak but at the same time he speaks an English similar to the Americans. When Walter asks him what he is being taught at college, George replies: “You’re all wacked up with…

mobility for the family and children, achieved through hard work in a society with few barriers" (Wikipedia). Through the American Dream, citizens believe that they can be successful and create a new life by working hard. In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the theme of the American Dream is common as Jay Gatsby, the protagonist, strives to create a new identity for…

Moral value has been replaced by materialism in “The Great Gatsby” In the 1920s, the “Jazz age” or “the Roaring Twenties” is a period after World War I where American society went to a radical change and social reform, and American situated as the most powerful nation of the world. The economic was growing very fast, and the manufacturing were working in full of capacity. The industrialization and the economic prosperity influenced people’s lives: individuals, especially the upper class who has…

Representations of “The Great Gatsby” The films “The great Gatsby” as well as “Midnight in Paris” were directed to portray the vibe the directors wanted to carry all throughout the films with characters and music, taking inspiration from the novel “The great Gatsby”. The “midnight in Paris” took inspiration from the great Gatsby to help bring the film alive as well as the characters which were involved in it. Both films as well as the novel portrayed this loving couple that did anything to be…

Authorial/ Contextual Notes The Catcher in the Rye’s author, J.D. Salinger, grew up in New York city during the 1920s, and attended surrounding boarding schools in the area. Salinger drew upon his time growing up in New York to develop the characters, plot, and theme of his main novel, The Catcher in the Rye. J.D Salinger reflected upon his time in the Upper West side elite boarding schools, and used his experiences to develop the groundbreaking novel, The Catcher in the Rye. Salinger, similar…

It is obvious, that describing the society of that period of time, Dumas was not able to omit this sphere of human relations. At the beginning of the story, Mercedes is known to be the Dantes` fiancee. However, being not able to resist society, she also betrayed Dantes and married a wealthy man who was able to guarantee her further life. At the end of the story she said Dantes "you have had trust in God, and God has sustained you. But as for me, I have been a coward. I have denied God and he…