The Ashes

minorities. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, The Valley of Ashes, a representation of the delusion of the American Dream, is a side effect of the unequal opportunities given to the wealthy in a society with stark class division. George Wilson tries to escape the Valley of Ashes but fails because of his distorted image of the American Dream, proving the impossibility of changing one’s social status. In the Valley of Ashes, all of the workers “[move] dimly and are crumbling through the…

The Valley of Ashes is a desolate area of land halfway between West Egg and New York. The land was created by the dumping of industrial ashes. In the Valley of Ashes, “the ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens” and this is according to the narrator, Nick Carraway. There is a big billboard sign with eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg, which had an importance in the novel. The eyes were described as God’s eyes and him being able to see everything that happened. His eyes…

Exploring the City’s of The Great Gatsby In the 1920’s fashion, secret parties, and dancing took off in West Egg, East Egg and Valley of ashes as individuals are pursuing the American Dream. In West Egg and East Egg money is everything. Though citizens of both East and West Egg have money, East Egg is seen as higher quality, due to growing up in the rich lifestyle. Tom Buchanan, Daisy Buchanan and Jordan Baker are the character 's that reside in East Egg because fortunately enough they were all…

Who is Arthur Ashe? Arthur is a very famous African american man who played tennis. Arthur was the first African American to be number one in the United States. He also tried to inform people about the dangers of AIDS and the fact that it’s a bad disease. Arthur Ashe is very important to the past of African Americans. Arthur was born on July, 10, 1943 in Richmond Virginia. When he was 7 his mother died and that is when he started to pick up tennis. One day when Arthur was about 12 he was in a…

The Catholic Church heavily influences most, if not all, of Ireland’s people. Angela's Ashes is a memoir of Frank McCourt's life, in which he describes the influence of the church on his life as he grows up. Through the use multiple characters from the book, Frank portrays the Catholic Church as a bad influence because it leaves the children uneducated, leading them to be misguided and fearful of committing sins. Sex is something every person learns about before their adulthood, but the Catholic…

Kick Tuner Dead, House in Ashes “Just this past week, a tragedy occurred in our fair town. 789 Lowson Blvd, home to Kick Turner, has burnt down to the ground. The causes are left unknown and the suddenness of it startled many, including the police. Neighbors said they heard a creaking sound and by the time they went to check their windows, the house was already entirely engulfed in fire. “The structure was already falling apart! It was so sudden, the only thing I could do is call the fire…

In this short story, the author Joanna Greenburg starts off the story by telling us that a mother is waiting by the window waiting for someone to arrive to her house. She is rushing around the house trying to hustle and get the house clean for her visitors. The reader comes to find out that the visitors are her son Abel and his new wife that are coming in from Chicago. As she was waiting for them to arrive she has a flashback of when her and her husband Matthew get married. The flashback then…

In his book Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt describes his childhood in Ireland. After the death of his sister in New York, his family relocated to Ireland, where his parents had family, hoping to receive assistance from their families and have a better life. Instead, they find themselves living in abject poverty. Having an alcoholic father who was unable to hold down a job and drinks away his earnings, the family was forced to survive in horrible conditions, living only on the meager amount they…

pity? Can those two things really be the same thing? After all help is help no matter how you get it. Think about these question as I evaluate both “Angela’s Ashes”(McCourt) and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”(Twain). Being poor is always hard, and being poor in Limerick, Ireland during the 1930’s seemed to top the cake in Angela’s Ashes written by Frank McCourt. Moving from New York with grief and no money in their pockets to the poor areas of Ireland seemed to further the depression.…

really noticeable is Auschwitz. This is the most known camp. There were at least 1,100,000 Jews that died. That is not counting all of the homosexuals, gypsies, etc. The Holocaust comes to people's mind and gives people chills. According to Smoke and Ashes by Barbara Rogasky, “the exact number of victims killed at each camp will never be known, because the SS did not record the individual people who went straight from train to gas chamber.” In Auschwitz there was a gas chamber. People would…