Analysis : Babylon Revisited By F. Scott Fitzgerald And Sonny 's Blues Essay

In the essay “Under the Influence,” Scott Russell Sanders uses his recollection and metaphors to portray an image of his father’s drinking customs. While certain people believe that children who are raised in a home with a drunk often follow in their footsteps, Sanders did the paradoxical and became a man whom his father was not. Although nothing but disappointment was demonstrated throughout the manuscript, Sanders made a connection with himself and his father. The relation contrived was his father 's afflicting dependence for alcohol and his uplifting addiction to working. Although plentiful children suffer from growing up with a guardian who has an addiction obstacle, Sanders overcame his misery by concentrating on himself and becoming a “workaholic”.

In “By the Waters of Babylon,” by Stephen Vincent Benét, set in a future following the destruction of industrial civilization, the story is narrated by a young man who is the son of a priest. The priests of John’s people,“the hill people,” are inquisitive people associated with the divine. They are the only ones who can handle metal collected from the home’s “also known as the Dead Places” of long-dead people whom they believe to be god's. Truth and knowledge are displayed as a role for priests to know and not everyone else; because, of consequences that could happen if someone knows too much. Truth and knowledge are only controlled by priests to keep everyone in the village safe; so, no one knows the truth about the gods or anything else that will let society fall to pieces. The narrator's journey and discoveries reveal that the not all knowledge is true. This discovery will influence his knowledge and actions for the remainder of his life.

In “Cathedral”, a short story by Raymond Carver, an unnamed narrator awaits the arrival of a friend of his wife’s, a blind man named Robert. Robert is stopping by for a visit on the way to his recently dead wife’s relatives. The narrator is not happy about the relationship his wife has with Robert, so he drinks constantly throughout the story. He even smokes marijuana near to keep his mind off of the situation. This trait that the narrator has can be linked back to the author Raymond Carver, who was a suffering alcoholic for many years. By the time Carver wrote this story, he had been alcohol free for three years, so his unconscious desire to return to drinking is shown through the narrator.

In the book ‘Dry’, Augusten Burroughs gives us an insightful look into the life of someone who has been struggling with alcohol abuse. Augusten is just an average man in his twenties, he lives in Manhattan, New York, works in advertising, and has plenty of money. But there is one thing that makes him anything but. When an average man may be having one or two drinks, Augusten had eleven. His whole life revolved around alcohol. He would stay out going to bars all night, and never go home. At work you could smell the alcohol in his pores and his breath. With his job on the line, Augusten was asked to go to rehab.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, famous for his work, The Great Gatzby, seems to always include one recurring theme within his works; the consequences of alcohol. But in his short story, Babylon Revisited, he offers another addition to one of the consequences. The idea that even though you have successfully changed your ways, your past determines how people view you, and what follows can have major effects on your future.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Babylon Revisited” is a touching and intense short story about a man name Charlie who faced issued in his past and resorted to excessive consumption of alcohol and an immature lifestyle. However, Charlie wants to let the past go and is determine to remain sober and continue his life with his daughter Honoria who he has lost custody of. What may have led Charlie to become an alcoholic were his complications with his finances and marital issues. “Alcoholics families” suffer from stress, are more likely to be separated and have a lower income in comparison to “non-alcoholic families” (1619). Charlie’s wife, Helen, died of heart problems but Helen’s sister, Marion Peters, chooses to believe that Charlie had some interference with her death. Currently Charlie’s daughter, Honoria, is living with Marion and Lincoln. Now that Charlie is in a stable state financially and has been sober for a year and a half he is committed to revisit his daughter in hopes to establish a lost father and daughter relationship. Although, Charlie wants to become a better man for himself and Honoria, his past as an alcoholic as well Marion’s distrust in him is withholding Charlie from regaining custody and a connection with his daughter.

In the novel “The Side of Paradise” by F Scott Fitzgerald, the main character Amory struggles with his dependence on alcohol, using it as a coping method for all of the things that go wrong in his life. Alcohol dependence has been a serious issue time and time again, generation after generation and even continues today. The issue Amory has with alcohol is present throughout much of the novel and even becomes a symbol of the death of Amory’s old self. Alcohol abuse is exemplified in the novel through the character Amory’s dependence on it to not only to relieve him of his pain but to help him carry out daily functions.

When you read a novel, poem even a story, normally you are looking for something that can relate it to it. For example: a similar experience that they share in the story with the characters. The Great Gatsby movie released on (1974) it can be compared to the Babylon Revisited because in the “Great Gatsby movie is a romantic-drama based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925. This success of film took place in Australia, with $105 million budget. Nick Carraway ( in which he is the one of the main protagonists in the movie),The story starts in the World War I, a veteran, is receiving treatment for his excessive alcoholism at a psychiatric hospital.

In the story “By the Water of Babylon” written by Stephen Vincent Benet, the events in the story related to real life now. The story is talking about how a disaster happen, all this event is actually closer to happen in real life. Although the United States has not been bombed by a nuclear bomb, it could happen and this story could represent some results of this happening. North Korea wants to start a nuclear war with the United States, North Korea is prepared for any sign to strike from the United States. North Korea will respond with nuclear weapons immediately. They said “North Koreans to be the beginning of a much larger strike, and they might choose to use their nuclear weapons.” North Korea have expanded their nuclear missiles range to reach parts of the U.S. but not all of it.

Alas, Babylon, by Pat Frank, takes place in Florida, USA, during a nuclear war between them and the USSR. Much like the small, ancient city of Babylon, the United States of America was destroyed and its citizens, the ones still alive, had the immense task of rebuilding the former superpower nation of the world. Dan Gunn, Fort Repose`s doctor explained to Randy Bragg, our protagonist that “some nations and some people come apart like fat in the pan. Others meet the challenge and harden. [He thought he was going to harden]” (Frank 133). Although he was talking to Randy, the quote applied to him as well. Randy had to figure out how to lead a very scared city that was falling apart and Dan had to treat the many patients without the luxury of having conventional methods available.

“Babylon Revisited” by F. Scott Fitzgerald teaches the reader that the past can affect the future. The main character, Charles Wales, is a man who lost the custody of his child due to alcoholism and whose wife has died. The story starts off this his new start, he rarely drinks and is set to be a better person and have his daughter (Honoria) in his life once more. Charles, who is also addressed as Charlie, comes back to the city of Paris where he once has partied and surely the memories of his past are brought up. No matter how much he has believed to have changed, his alcoholic past is a topic sent creating the future he would rather not live in.

Sheenagh Pugh is a British poet who published a poem called “Sometimes”; this poem was originally dedicated to a sportsman recovering from a cocaine addiction. Moreover, I chose this poem because it had an interesting backstory; Pugh has stated that she does not like this poem because it is often misinterpreted. The message of this poem was supposed to express hope that the sportsman might get over his addiction, the message that is said is that things do go right sometimes but later in the poem it also expresses that it’s often that they go wrong too. Regrettably, readers often misinterpret this by believing that the message is that things go right if you make some effort towards it. Pugh uses literary terms such as metaphors, repetition and

A few pages into The Black Cat the narrator recounts coming back to reality and sobriety after removing Pluto’s eye, but then immediately starts drinking again (117), revealing the strength of the draw of irrationality. The way the narrator describes going, almost without pause, back to drinking, is in conflict with the narrator’s realizations, “a sentiment half of horror, half of remorse”, but this contrast only shows more clearly how little the realizations he had while sober meant compared to the put of

The Tell-Tale Heart (1843) and The Black Cat (1843) are short stories written by Edgar Allan Poe. Due to the circumstances in Poe’s life and his personal experiences with alcoholism, many of his short stories have alcoholism or drugs as one of their themes, although, they are not always literally expressed. Drugs do not always have to be drugs, but the term could be used for something which is addictive, so it works almost like a drug. The Tell-Tale Heart and The Black Cat express the theme of alcohol, alcoholism and drugs through the use of conflict, irony and symbolism. The Tell-Tale Heart never mentions alcohol or drugs, but that does not necessarily mean that the obsession on the vulture eye was not a drug for the narrator. The Black Cat mentions alcohol once and Poe hints towards that the narrator uses alcohol, but similarly the hatred towards Pluto could be considered a drug for the narrator.

Dubliners by James Joyce is a collection of stories centered around Joyce’s intentions to write the moral history of Dublin’s paralysis. Although paralysis seems to be the main theme in Dubliners, another motif comes across in the pages of the stories. As if all of the mental, physical, and emotional problems weren’t enough, many of the characters in Dubliners are alcoholics. Joyce utilizes the character of the drunk in many of the stories in Dubliners; hardly a story skips a mention of a drink. The negative effects of alcohol occur again and again through the collection of stories. For the most part, men are brought down by their addiction to alcohol and their inability to control themselves when they are drunk. In Dubliners, the characters seek their own desires, face obstacles that frustrate them, and ultimately give in to their need to consume alcohol. With Dubliners, James Joyce brings attention to the different issues that consuming alcohol caused in early 20th century Ireland using three particular stories; “Counterparts”, “Grace” and “Ivy Day in the Committee Room”.