Analysis of Northern Lights by Philip Pullman Essay

The roaring 20’s was an astounding time in the history of the United States of America. Many authors published novels, poems, and other works of literature to show their readers what it would be like to experience this time frame. Some examples of these works include The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and “Harlem” by Langston Hughes. Both of these pieces of literature include literary elements to appeal to the reader’s senses and imagination. A prevalent theme that has been found in works of the roaring 20’s is the wealth that someone may or may not achieve. Literary elements such as figurative language, irony, and symbolism are profound in both The Great Gatsby and “Harlem”, adding depth to both literature works.

The setting of the book is in the New England state of Woburn, Massachusetts. This is a sleepy little community that is overcast by local factories. The factories

In the play, the setting takes place in an "abandoned" and "gloomy" farmhouse out in the country. Almost

Within the 19th century American atmosphere, is a realm of cultural tropes that distinguishes themselves among the common literature that people read. Among these people, are different demographics as each publication caters to a specific audience on the basis of race, gender, and residing region. While the readers of these publications come from varying backgrounds and belief systems, there are unique similarities that provide insight as to how people were reading in the 19th century. These similarities contextualize what these readers were looking for in these publications as well as their interests and habits in respect to the demographics represented in the periodical archive.

the  1910’s  to  the  1970’s.  It  takes  place  around  the  center  of  the  twentieth  century

The events in the novel play out in the fictional town of West Egg in 1922. The Roaring Twenties, or the Jazz Age of America is portrayed by Fitzgerald. Social ferment, idealism, resistance to change, and decadence are dealt with in the novel. The novel sounds a warning to the believers of the ‘American Dream’.

The opening of the novel presents a prelude of how life for the 19th century cowboy was and how

reader's mind about what life was like in the 1930's showing the reader that the world was

First in the beginning of the movie hip hop style music was played when Nick starts his story to his doctor how ever this is inaccurate because this style of music was not invented till the 1970s. Secondly the way the characters dressed in the movie thou they were similar to the fashion of the 1920 they were also changed to fit the idea of the movie. The clothes were made flashier and sexier to fit the point of the movie. Secondly at the beginning of the movie the doctor gives Nick a ballpoint pen which was not invented till many years later in ww2. Next in the movie Gatsby is shown with a Duesenberg Model J which was not invented till 1929, 7 years after the movie is said to take place 1922. Also when tom and nick visit the valley of ashes a steam train is shown however ten long island railroad ports Washington line which runs from the island north shore to flushing was electrified in 1918. Also the phone that is seen ringing in toms house is a French phone that was not invented till the mid 1930s, in 1922 you would have had to use the candle stick phone. These are just a few in accuracies. The movie also contained very few moments that could be noted as historically accurate. However if one historical accuracy must be noted one can say that the portrayal of the roaring twenties is very accurate. The roaring twenties was a romantic world filled with flashy cars, fast women, parties that go on for days and false friends. The movie portrayed this idea in the most elaborate fashion possible which makes that something that’s accurate in the

What do we learn about life in the 18th century and how successfully does the writer convey this information whilst telling us a good story?

Children, with bright faces, tripped merrily beside their parents, or mimicked a graver gait, in the conscious dignity of their Sunday clothes” (Hawthorne, 1) places the readers in a small village in the United States in the middle of the 1800’s with an action that lasts for several days.

that the film takes place in is the 18th century. There is a mixture of social class in this

The nineteenth century was a period of controversy, reform, and revolution. Among it were people longing to spread new ideas, discover new things, and find who they truly were. Though the desires of those in this time were not entirely contrastive to the ones of those in any other century, differences lie in the difficulty nineteenth century people faced in fulfilling said desires. This is not to say that people of the time lacked ambition—in fact, this is to say the exact opposite. Despite their abundance of ambition, contrary to current times, people were often suppressed from using their ambition to promote ideas that were considered socially unacceptable. Though there are many pieces of evidence to support this, multiple literary works

The first work that I am evaluating is "The Starry Night" by Vincent van Gogh which was created in June 1889 and is currently located at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. “The Starry Night” was painted during the post-impressionist period, and is one of several that Van Gogh produced while staying at the asylum in Saint-Remy in southern France. According to Soomo Learning (2017) the piece is "a vision of dynamic spiritual movement from temporality to eternity" (Section 2.4.2 Art Gallery). The painting depicts an imagined view of the town of Saint-Remy, with a Dutch style church at the center and rolling hills in the background. It appears to be just before dawn with bright stars, Venus, and the moon set in a vivid blue swirling sky. Contrasting the bright stars and brilliant blue sky is a dark looming cypress tree that occupies the left side of the image and contains a flamelike appearance.

Litz, A. Walton. "Into the Nineteenth Century: Pride and Prejudice." Interpretations of Pride and Prejudice. Ed. Rubinstein. E. Englewood Cliffs: Pr