The Ashes

NO SLEEP 9PM-8:52AM F.Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, depicts how social classes has an impact on how it gives characters disadvantages and advantages over each other by their social class, how it makes people change, how it makes people look at the characters different, and the influence it may have on a person, through the development of three characters chasing hollow dreams that only leads to misery when you put money over happiness. F.Scott Fitzgerald carefully set up his novel…

Proving if a story is Authentic The last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper can be called an example of Native American literature because it aligns with three of the seven important elements of that writing style: nature, religion, and courage, which are also present in the acclaimed Native American book “The Way to Rainy Mountain” by N. Scott Momaday and the movie “Smoke Signals”. Nature is a proven through-out both. In The last of the Mohicans nature surrounds our main characters and is…

Zeus meets a beautiful, unique woman named Cloudia. He began to fall in love with her. It turns out that she is blind, which makes Zeus sad. He had felt this way because, he wanted her to be able to see him. A while after they meet they began to wonder if there was a way for her to not be blind anymore. Meanwhile, during this period Cloudia tells Zeus that she has a secret. She also told him that she would not be able to tell him until the time is right. So Zeus tries and tries to get it…

In chapter 2, the author conveys a scene of Nick and Tom on the Train headed to the Bronx. In order to get to the Bronx, the train they were first had to stop at the valley of ashes, the midpoint between West Egg and the Bronx. When the train made a stop at the valley of ashes, Tom ordered Nick around and announced what it is they are going to do; these are clear indicators of Tom's nature and continue to mark him as the story continues. He’s a character that looks down on everyone else. He…

either (Prithivi), Water (Jal), Air (Vayu), Fire (Agni), and Sky (Akash). It is said that our bodies are composed of these elements and must return to it. By burning a body under the sky, with fire and air and returned to the earth after which the ashes are sent afloat in water. Thus, the body has been restored to the five elements of nature. However, it is supposed that it is not mandatory for every Hindu to burn their dead. Where the followers of Shiva tend to adhere to burning; the…

enough. However through the symbolic setting of the Valley of The Ashes, Fitzgerald exposes the flawed concept that all people have the opportunity to obtain wealth through hard-work. The Valley of the Ashes is situated between East and West egg, a direct juxtaposition of the realities of Americans, conveying the jarring sense of poverty in the area. (2011, Valley of Ashes). It is a desolate land created by the dumping of industrial ashes, representing social decay with the rich indulging…

help to define them in their own unique way, such as Daisy’s constant correlation with white to represent her surface purity and innocence. Morals in this story are also well represented, by the Eckleburg billboard and the ignorance of the Valley of Ashes. Both show the conflicting views shared by the different economic classes of the 1920s and how they affected the lives of each respective class. The archetypes, whether hero, temptress, or voice of reason, all distinguish different attitudes…

both blinded by the American Dream. Although they were both blinded with the American Dream, they both had in mind different versions. George wanted to be with Myrtle and move out of “the gray land and spasms of bleak dust they call the valley of ashes” (23). George wanted love with Myrtle and to make a better life for themselves by moving west. Myrtle on the other hand wanted a different kind of American Dream. She wanted a life with Tom. She thought “her sensual surplus of flesh” could make…

September 11, 2001, will go down in history as a day of infamy. The day started as any other day with the Twin Towers standing in the New York skyline. At 8:45 a.m. on that Tuesday morning, an American Airlines Boeing 767 that had been hijacked by Islamic terrorists crashed into the North Tower. Eighteen minutes after the first crash, a United Airlines plane took a sharp turn and crashed into the South Tower. At 9:45 a.m. as everyone was watching the events unfold in New York, American Airlines…

By reading “Angela’s Ashes”, I learned that your background doesn’t necessarily determine who you are. Frank lived his entire childhood in poverty with a father who would come home late at night drunk, yet he strived to reach beyond the limitations that were forced upon him. Some of the questions I have for “Brother Under a Same Sky” are what exactly caused the tense relations between Nam Ki and Nam Kun, and who was the man who came to Nam Ki’s funeral? For “Angela’s Ashes”, I wonder what the…