F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby depicts the American societies in 1920s through its accurate and vivid descriptions of contemporary life style. The novel takes place in wealthy cities, East Egg and West Egg of Long Island, where many flaunted their wealth through luxuries and parties. Of Particular, Jay Gatsby hosted many grand scale parties, in which many wealthy men, business men, and actors and actresses were invited. The 1920s were period of time when people began indulging in wealth
influential novel, The Stranger, a great work of existentialism, examines the absurdity of life and indifference of the world. This paper provides a summary of the novel, and outlines some of the novel's main themes. The novel's protagoinist, Meursault, is a distanced and indifferent young man. He does not believe in God, and lives his life with seemingly sensuous abandon. After Meursault is caught up in the life of a local pimp, he rather inexplicably murders a young man on the beach, and is put
Waverly Leonard Part I Reading Journal, ch.s 1-13 Plot Summary: These first thirteen chapters chronicle the daily life of Edna Pontellier, The Awakening’s protagonist. The novel opens on Mr. Pontellier; he is smoking a cigar and reading the newspaper while idly observing the life and activity around him. The novel turns its attention to his wife, Edna Pontellier. She is described as “rather handsome than beautiful” and has a face with a “certain frankness of expression,” an intriguing description
in a flowery spot under overhanging trees on the shady banks of the Seine. The piece exhibited for the first time in Paris in 1857 provoked a scandal caused mainly by the Courbet’s choice of subject. He changed the traditionally way of portraying women within a natural setting with
The Awakening and Butterfly Burning The summaries do not add anything to the paper and could (should) have been skipped. Given the thesis of the paper, I would have liked to have seen a discussion of the male / female conflict, and a more detailed discussion of the individual / society conflict. The two women's struggles "to find their own sense of individuality" are, after all, attempts to free themselves from the expectations of their husbands and of the societies in which they live. Such
self-discovery and Cardinal’s transformation is evident from her zeal for life at the end of the gestation period. Discovering what one is feeling and thinking, through writing, helps negotiate and tolerate a new psychic space. It is one that is sometimes terrifying but sometimes exhilarating (DeSalvo, 182). This is true of Cardinal after the analysis; she regained a new self, free from the bondages that haunted her previous life. She was on a quest to secure her freedom and truth. The Words to Say
A Book Review of The Gift of Sex University Abstract This paper is a summary of the book "The Gift of Sex" along with my responses for each section in the book. Along with the physical aspect of sex, there is a spiritual aspect of sex, which is mostly neglected by today's culture and even by Christians. The authors believe that sex is also a spiritual and emotional act, involving the total person, the body, soul and spirit. There is a connection with the sexual relationship
1. G. M. Hopkins, “The Windhover”, “I wake and feel the fell of dark…” 2. William Shakespeare, Sonnets 1-7 3. John Donne, “Valediction Forbidding Mourning”, “The Flea”, “Hymn to God, My God in my Sickness” 4. George Herbert, “The Collar”, “The Altar”, “Love III” 5. Andrew Marvell, “To his Coy Mistress” 6. T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, “Journey of the Magi” 2. Poems for individual reading: 1. William Shakespeare Sonnet 73 (“That time of year…”) 2. John Donne, “Holy
listed with most books sold on the Net and on the writer’s Web sites. A good sample book review would pertain to writing your personal feelings about a book that you’ve read. Writing a book review is not to be confused with writing a summary of a book. Writing a summary is a totally different matter and that will be covered eventually in my Articles section. In my opinion, no real format exists for writing book reviews. Writing help may not be needed. An example of book review variations is shown
of wisdom." It is made up of two Greek words, philo, meaning love, and sophos, meaning wisdom. Philosophy helps teachers to reflect on key issues and concepts in education, usually through such questions as: What is being educated? What is the good life? What is knowledge? What is the nature of learning? And What is teaching? Philosophers think about the meaning of things and interpretation of that meaning. Even simple statements, such as "What should be learned? Or What is adolescence?" set up raging