The Ashes

“The gentlest and most wonderful of its kind. Mesmerizing beauty and brilliant color, its cry synonymous to a lovely song. But comes time, consumes itself in its own magnificent flame and from its own ashes will rise and reborn anew…” – Kahit Minsan. The story of Phoenix Jackson depicts the long and strenuous journey of an old woman fighting to bring medicine to her sick grandson. In the story, Eudora Welty uses symbolism, color, and theme in “A Worn Path” to show the allegory of the “Flight…

In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald creates a clear sociology of wealth. Relating back to the time period known as the "Roaring 1920 's", where suddenly everything was becoming modernized, as the country was flourishing and became categorized as the richest country in the world. A time where the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. The corrupt idea of becoming wealthy was every American 's top priority and Fitzgerald uses clear evidence of that through the different characters in the novel.…

ritual that includes the ingestion of the ashes of the deceased. A classmate from my statistics class, told me about this tribe, because his ancestors were part of it. My classmate and his parents have never practice any ritual, however, he knows about the history of the tribe. The funeral rite is divided into three ceremonies: the samples mourn crying, the ritual purification of the body, (body decoration and cremation) and the consumption of the ashes of the deceased. When a Yanomami dies,…

Kate Chopin’s “The Storm” and the film The Bridges of Madison County, both tell a story of a …. love affair in the eyes of the women involved. Adultery, usually being interpreted as a scandalous and sinful act, is presented in a different way throughout these stories. The perspective in which the audience/readers are put into, is one that demonstrates a whole different side of a forbidden affair. Although The Bridges of Madison County and “The Storm” convey similar plots, with the use of the…

bleak landscape, a valley rid of hope and promise, well at least it was in the 1920s when it was used as an important setting in F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece. Throughout The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald contrasts West and East Egg with The Valley of Ashes to demonstrate how wealth and status have an impact on the hope and promise in the lives and lifestyles of people.…

Gatsby’s books are real, to the readers surprise, but he has never read them, further implicating Fitzgerald’s idea that when others do achieve their American Dream, it is often phony and just a facade for the life they actually live. The valley of ashes, one of the most obvious symbols of Fitzgerald’s distaste for the idea of the dream, is where the American Dream goes to die. It is the resting place for those who will never be rich and successful, and enforces again that the hope of achieving…

Scott Fitzgerald uses the Valley of Ashes to help depict the leftover waste of the Roaring Twenties. As Gatsby and Nick take a drive into New York, Nick has a handful of observations “We passed Port Roosevelt, where there was a glimpse of red-belted ocean-going ships, and sped along a cobbled slum lined with the dark, undeserted saloons of the faded-gilt nineteen hundreds, Then the valley of ashes opened out on both sides of us, and I had a glimpse of Mrs. Wilson straining…

frivolity of the 1920s upper class fills the novel. In stark contrast to the wealthy party atmosphere, Fitzgerald writes of the city of ashes, a worn down working class town built on the coal industry. All aspects of the city are described as being built out of mounds of grey ashes contrasting with the…

the inability to achieve the American Dream and the corruption incited in its pursuit. Thus, Fitzgerald uses the symbol of the green light in order to represent the American Dream and Gatsby’s futile quest of this ideal. He also uses the valley of ashes to communicate both the decadence of the upper class as they carelessly splurge, and the resulting loss of vitality and hope in the lower class. Therefore, in The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald effectively uses symbolism to convey the fictitious sense…

In “The Great Gatsby” there are many symbolic locations and objects, but the deepest ones are the ideas behind the Valley of Ashes, Eckleburg's Eyes and the Green Light at the end of Daisy's dock. This essay will analyse these locations and objects, and various possibilities for ideas will be presented. Firstly, our focus will be directed towards the Green Light, located at the end of Daisy's dock, a little light warning boats of a present structure during inclement weather, by constantly…