The Town

In the endeavor to attain these common conceptions of “success”, people often create a facade of happiness and contentment. Scott Fitzgerald, writer of the novel The Great Gatsby, and E.E. Cummings, writer of the poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town,” convey a similar theme in their works through the use of tone, imagery, and symbolism. Both selections explore societies and people filled with insincerity, and they both reveal that surface level happiness doesn’t always reflect what’s…

Han Wei Ying Wang Representative Works of Modern Chinese Literature 10/05/2016 Summary of Border Town chapter 1-4 Chapter 1: The first chapter introduces the protagonists of Border Town: an old man and his granddaughter Cuicui. They live by a narrow stream on the way to the little mountain town called Chadong (Congwen Shen, Border Town). The man makes a living by running a small local ferry, and his orphaned granddaughter is born out of wedlock. The old man brings up Cuicui by himself.…

Thornton Wilder wrote the play “Our Town” with a philosophical approach. He does this in order to convey his message to the audience. This approach allows for the central theme of the play to be revealed. Wilder’s philosophical approach reveals the purpose of the play that is to value your time when you are alive and appreciate everything that you have. This method teaches the audience a moral lesson throughout the play. Though critics may argue that a philosophical approach is not the way…

Birds Town Gone wrong Long ago in birds town lived a little girl and her best friend Tommy. Over the years there has been many lords and many different rules, but never such a rule as no boys allowed like the new lord made. What happens to the boys the villagers asked. The lord soon answered, “They shall be sent to the village across the highway.” Kylie a normal teenage girl is one of the many people that were affected by this rule, as well as Sam. Kylie lost her best friend, Sam…

Composers are successful in the manipulation of responders to place them in a position that helps convey their story and its messages that the persona is trying to tell. In ‘North coast town’ and’ Flames and dangling wires’, Gray uses a combination of imagery and similes to relate to the responder therefore easing his task of positioning the reader to experience what he is seeing when he writes. In the poem, Grey is trying warn the responder that society are causing pollution and not noticing it…

rural town comes with many perks and as well as disadvantages. One perk is the quiet openness of living outside a major city. The city being forty-five minutes away; there are no bright lights, police sirens, or even ambulances whizzing by at all hours of the day or night. If you happened to get pulled over, the police officer would dial up your parent’s phone number leaving you a ticket and an unpleasant conversation at home. In fact, we only had the one blinking stop light in the entire town!…

people walk with a cane, and eventually meet their untimely demise. Similar to the sphinx’s riddle in Oedipus Rex, Our Town, written by Thornton Wilter, includes these major themes in each scene of the play. The first act includes the theme of small town life where the story takes place in New Hampshire in a small fictional town known as Grover’s Corners. Within this little town, everyone knows one another, and can feel for each other. The second act is mainly about the themes love, and marriage…

TITLE Tombstone: The Town Too Tough To Die LEAD PARAGRAPH There’s a town out in the Arizona desert steaming with history. Drive just 30 minutes outside of Tucson and you’ll be traveling back some hundred years. You’ll stand in a town reminiscent of a time when America was young, boisterous, and unsettling. It’s a bygone era free of today’s fast paced mobility, where adventure was around every corner and the frontier was alive. Out passed wide arid space the surrounding mountains were a…

Being born and raid in New York City, I can proudly, and biasedly say, that NYC is the best city in the world. The fast pace and the discord of NYC is in my blood and quite honestly, something I doubt I’ll be able to live without. One of the best aspects of being from NYC is all the wonderful sights we are given a chance to admire. From Times Square, to Coney Island, NYC is full of eye candy. Despite the advanced public transportation system (that’ll still get me to class twenty minutes late),…

“Peyton are you ready to go catch a mamagal?” is just one of the many things I am asked from dad when the spawn is about to begin. My family has fished on Lake Sam Rayburn for many decades and I guess you could say it’s a tradition. We each have our favorite rods and reels and equipment that we believe is “lucky,” but sometimes it’s about more than luck. Nothing can compare to the wind that flowed through your hair as the boat darted across the water heading to your favorite spot. The smoky air…