This Is Now

“You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock”(Fitzgerald 98). This famous quote is one of many ways that F. Scott Fitzgerald used colors in his popular novel The Great Gatsby. Color symbolism is a branch of the Archetypal lense that uses colors to describe different people and their personalities throughout literature. Colors, including green, yellow, white, and red are used to symbolise hope, caution, innocence, and anger through what people see, the cars they…

Judy. I will show you how this story is about much more than that. This story is about Carpe Diem, the intense pursuit of these ideals, and ultimately the failure of Carpe Diem as the sole way to live one’s life. During the 1920’s, wealthy Americans were busy living in the moment, their lives filled with…

what success is and how to become successful. In this Essay I’ll be comparing how two authors think success is achieved. Paul Tough and Michael Lewis has completely different ideas on how success is achieved. Paul Tough’s idea that success requires hard work, dedication, and determination means success can be achieved by anyone who is willing to put forth the effort. In, ‘Don’t eat Fortune’s cookie”, Michael Lewis repeatedly talks about this thing called “luck.” Well what exactly is luck?…

they have to wait for a little while until they can check in and go on the plane to Spain. Arrived in Alicante, a little city near the ocean, Aldrich and Danny are overwhelmed by the heat. They just came from one of the coldest country in Europe and now they have 90 degrees in the south. The friends are heading to their hotel and than to the beach to explore the area. Danny is delighted by the people snorkelling in the crystal clear water, he says: “Wow, that is what I wanna do tomorrow. I bet…

The conflict is developed through the use of imagery when frost writes, "Between the wood and frozen lake / The darkest evening of the year" (5-8). This demonstrates how the speaker does not normally stop in this area but scenery forced the speaker to stop and admire everything he was seeing and forms a conflict within the speaker over staying to admire what he saw and attempt to explore it or to carry on with their journey to…

exploration of his character's emotions. Having the characters become the main focus of the novel strengthens the emotional attachment of the reader. In this context, McCarthy uses dreams in “The Road” to provide more background on the man’s emotional traumas leading to his physical and mental decline, to illustrate the themes of love and sacrifice and to…

top of the social ladder. Nora’s desire to obtain high social status accompanied with her willingness to go to extreme measures to achieve this status wreak havoc upon her marriage and family, and ultimately display her thirst for control. Due to her desperation to have authority, Nora takes extreme measures to achieve a sense of superiority. Ibsen portrays this through…

‘four-taloned’ and is ‘suspended’ above the hay. Talons are reminiscent of birds and prey, and suggest the ripping of flesh. The word ‘suspended suggests an impending danger that is about to fall, which is combined with this image of the ‘afternoon sun’ which ‘sliced’ into the barn. In this oxymoron, Steinbeck juxtaposes the pleasant and relaxed image of the sun with the vicious and ominous verb ‘sliced’, which again strikes a sense of foreboding. Steinbeck stresses the softness and size of the…

Nick for the first time, he automatically assumed that he was going to discuss, ”’looking for a business gonnegtion.' The juxtaposition of these two remarks was startling, Gatsby answered for me: 'Oh no,' he exclaimed, 'this isn't the man.' 'No?' Mr.Wolfsheim seemed disappointed. 'This is just a friend. I told you we'd talk about that some other time” (70-71). Gatsby quickly wants to move from the subject of business because of the immature nature of the sketchy bootleg business. In the rise of…

work. This is especially true when you have to be in charge of what you get done using online learning. Today, we are going to explore exactly what it is that describes a self-starter and also what I can do to manage my time…