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only the highly intelligent, educated, and wealthy individuals of the upper class are valuable. This results in a significant deterioration in the quality of human life, and the eventual questioning of whether or not any individual has a true purpose. Ideally, the primary objective of an automated society like the one in the novel is to liberate humans and enable them to seek out their life’s purpose. This would give individuals the freedom…

Deceit: The action or practice of deceiving someone by concealing or misrepresenting the truth. This is the definition many people use when describing the narrator of the story, Nick Carraway; however, this is ultimately the glue that holds The Great Gatsby together. Fitzgerald uses Nick for a way to embody the thought that even the best of us fall. This, however, does not prove him to be “unreliable” or “untrustworthy”. The way Fitzgerald has Nick give away information, contradiction of himself…

Dead. This man is dead. Jdimytai Damour was killed on Black Friday, 2008, at a local Walmart in New York by being trampled. Crazy, deal seeking mothers and fathers did not stop cramming into the doors so their child could have the latest trending toy that would be out of style in three months. They just watched as a man died before their eyes. When did we start being more interested in the stuff we want then in the stuff we need? As years go by, people are losing interest in sentimental and…

was given a red book, the first Thompson book[…] but at that moment, Mary Katherine Reilly was at my side […] I nodded, I acquiesced, I was hers” (21-24). After telling her readers this story, Hampl soon recalls almost everything she told us she was not sure if she had made it up or if it were actually the truth. This tends to happen to many people. People simply forget details about stories that have created them into the people they are today or they…

chapter 1, as Nick “distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock.” (33) This light, at the end of Daisy’s dock, represents Gatsby’s wish to get back with Daisy, a woman who was full of prosperity and high status. The words “impossible to reach” (33) suggests how Gatsby’s dream is unattainable; thus, this green light is nothing more than the hope for a bright future. In order to achieve his dream, Gatsby flaunts his wealth by…

for Nick manages to see something in Gatsby that no one else sees. Nick saw something in Gatsby that he didn't see in anyone else. “They're a rotten crowd,” I shouted across the lawn. “You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.” (Fitzgerald 45) This goes with the first supporting detail in dealing with Nick seeing people in a certain way. Nick sees Gatsby in a more positive way than anyone else. Even though no one else cared enough for Gatsby Nick did. “ On the white steps an obscene word,…

exposed in a satirical manner. Swift was the master of satire using irony, sarcasm and witticism in this piece to poke fun at the ignorant in society. The Protestant absentee landlords are what motivated his work. Like leeches extracting blood, they profited immensely from the tithes they received, yet neglected to reinvest any of this money back into the Irish economy. Even the title of this piece is satirical, with Swift proclaiming it modest, yet successfully arguing the case for…

decadence in the novels written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald is This Side of Paradise. It was not only the first novel written by Fitzgerald, but also his most popular work till his death in 1940. (Bruccoli158).(?) The analysis of the concept of decadence in This Side of Paradise applies mainly to the main protagonist, Amory Blanie. His character, behaviour and ideology is marked by degeneration, and immorality. This Side of Paradise has a bildungsroman construction. The development…

Explanation (two sentences): This means that he was considered to be a gentlemen from head to toe. When people think of rich people they think of jerks but in reality not all rich people are pretty nice. Evidence or Explanation #2 (must include citation) ): DO NOT WRITE ANYTHING HERE Lead in: Their is a lot of rich people in this world but not as rich as Richard Cory. Evidence: “And he was rich—yes, richer than a king—” (Line…

over by two people. In the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald readers can then picture the image. Going on, the book’s setting was in New York in the 1920’s. Throughout this book Gatsby revolves his life around a special someone for five years and does anything to see her to get her back into his life. While all this is going on Daisy (the special someone) and Gatsby have to make a lot of decisions and even passed many difficult paths. Meanwhile, Gatsby’s parties would be an important…