The novel begins with an ordinary picnic in New York City with the Cardinal family. After enjoying their time, they decide to leave. This part of the story is the exposition. Later on, Jack and Amanda, parents of Lou and Oz, are fighting about their family’s future in the car. Jack is determined to move to California because he found out that he can become wealthy for his award-winning writing there, yet Amanda knows that this move will strengthen the divide between him and his children. During their argument, Jack swerves out of the way to avoid a collision, yet this causes the car to fly off the road and crash. The crash causes Jack to die and Amanda to be in profound coma with little possibility of recovery which makes this the initiating event. Because of having no guardian left, they decide to go to Virginia to live with their great-grandmother. After a long train ride, they finally arrive in Virginia. Eugene, who is very brief, picks up the Cardinal family and the nurse caring for Amanda. On their way through small towns, they pick up Diamond. Then they arrive at the modest, quaint house of Louisa Mae Cardinal. The nurse leaves and kids meet their new guardian for the first time. Without giving much time to rest up, Louisa gives chores to Lou and Oz, so that the farm can be properly maintained and cared for. A lawyer from up north arrives named Cotton, and starts reading to Amanda. Later on at Oz and Lou’s first day of school, Lou picks a fight with Billy Davis since
Phoenix, Arizona was their next destination. Jeanette’s original thought of living with their grandma again were cast aside as Mary reveals that she passed away during their stay at Battle mountain. Upon arrival the family stays in a fairly large house that was left in Grandma Smith’s will for Mary. Things were positive at first as the usually are, but slowly took a wrong turn as they usually do. Jeanette attends a new school where she is bullied for her intelligence, however this conflict soon ends when her brother Brian steps in and stands up for her. Rex got another job and supplied for the family as usual. Just as things were getting nice, Christmas day comes. This time the kids actually had real gifts, they each got a bike as well as small gifts they bought each other. Everything is looking up until their father got intoxicated and accidently burned their presents after opening up his, and using the lighter inside of it. Their father loses yet another job, and things tumble downwards. From people breaking into their house, touching the children, and just sleeping in the house. The big moment comes when
She opens the door to her childhood, beginning with when she was 3 years old and boiling her own hot dog by standing on top of the chair to reach the stovetop. While doing that, her pink dress catches on the fire because of which gets her horribly burned. She spends a few days in the hospitals and enjoys it too, because she is getting food on time and is not left starving. One day her dad shows up and they run off out of the hospital without paying the bills of her treatment. That night her family leaves the town and move to another place, taking as much stuff as possible with them. Most of her childhood memories involve her whole family- mom, dad, Jeanette, Lori, Brian, and later on Maureen -moving from one desert towns to another, settling in as long as her dad can hold the job. This happened more frequently due to the dad’s alcoholism coupled with his paranoia about the organized society and the state. One of the towns they stayed in was Battle Mountain, Nevada, where they spend a few months. Jeanette and her brother Brian spent many hours exploring the desert and collecting rocks. Even their mother got a job as a teacher and
Living in a falling apart house, the family rarely has electricity and they have no running water or heat. Struck by a hard reality, the older children realize the only way to achieve a stable life is to move away from their parents. They begin saving as much money as they can until eventually the oldest child, Lori, moves to New York City. She finds a job and the children try to save more money so they can all eventually move to the city. Ultimately, all of the kids are together again in New York City and life is good.
At first it was hard for Jeanette to get a job until she got a waitressing job, she decides that it wasn’t for her, so she began to look for a different job. Jeanette later began to intern for The Phoenix which was a newspaper company. As time goes on, she is now working there fulltime, things are starting to look good for her until she learns that her parents are coming to New York. At first the parents were living with Jeanette until they were acting back to their old ways, they got kicked out and forced them to live in their van. But their van ended up getting towed which then caused them to become homeless.
In the first instance, Isabel has to realize that she may go home again, After Mrs Finch dies, her nephew sells the siblings as soon as he can, She and her sister are shipped from their home to a place completely foreign to them. The air is thick and heavy, they are treated
The next section I read was pages two hundred and twenty-six to pages two hundred and eighty-eight. It was about the New York Experience throughout the family. The characters in this section are the Walls, Eric and John. Jeannette arrives in New York and she gets a job in a hamburger shop, then Lori and Jean get enough money to rent their own apartment. Jean begins her school in New York and starts writing for The Phoenix. They hear that Rex is in jail and he is just getting worse and Brian moves to the city. Then Jean begins college at Bernard and Maureen also moves to New York. Jean hears on the radio about a van breaking down and everything in it falling out including the dog. She then hears from
When they arrived Mama and Kirst went inside, Annemarie and Ellen went for a walk. They walked down a path where they saw a cat that was eyeing them out. When they reached the ocean Ellen told Annemarie how she and never been to the proper ocean, only the harbour because her mum was afraid of the big sea and that it was to cold. The girls sat on a rock and took their shoes of. When they felt the water they got straight back out again. They then started to talk a they saw Mama waving for them to come back. When they got back Ellen as holding the kitten that was well asleep in her hands. Mama asked if they saw anyone and asked of the girls to make sure that they stayed out of sight from anyone else. They started to make dinner for when Uncle Henrick returned. The girls were getting ready to go to sleep when Ellen asked about her necklace when Annemarie responded by saying that it was in a safe hiding spot. While they were trying to fall asleep they heard the adults talking about why Henrick didn’t have a wife. Annemarie remembered the old times and how things had
Sybil Isabel Dorsett, a shy, twenty-two-year-old substitute teacher, became an interesting case, when the Sybil came into a mental health facility complaining of severe memory loss that resulted in unknown store bought items, “waking up,” in strange place, and severe social anxiety that again resulted in a loss of time, and memory, blackouts, and emotional breakdowns, in public places. What was first thought to be hysteria, turned into another problem, after experiencing some of the patients, “hysteria.” Born, and raised in the suburbs of Dodge Center, Minnesota, to a very successful and well respected carpenter, and architect, Walter Mason, and an often described as, “bizarre,” stay-at-home mother, Martha “Mattie” Atkinson. Sybil seemed to have the all-American family, but reports sexual abuse at the hands of her well-respected mother, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia years before Sybil was born. A much respected art teacher at Columbia university, Sybil often teaches art classes to university students.
Ellen Montgomery is a young girl who lives a happy life with her devoutly Christian parents. She discovers that her mother is ill and must go to Europe with Ellen’s father. Ellen then travels with strangers to live with a distant aunt. The strangers are cruel to Ellen, and she tries to escape. An old man sees Ellen crying and teaches her about God. Ellen decides to be more devout, like her mother. She reaches Thirwall, where a man called Mr. Van Brunt takes her to the home of her aunt, Fortune Emerson. Fortune treats Ellen badly and will not let her go to school. Ellen finds solace in Mr. Van Brunt and other neighbors. One day, Ellen discovers that her aunt withheld a letter from her mother, and she runs away crying. She meets Alice Humphreys,
In the beginning of the book, we learn that Lou and Oz live with their parents, Jack and Amanda Cardinal, in New York City. Jack is a writer. They are planning on moving to California so he can write for movies in Hollywood. Jack and Amanda borrow a close friend's car to go on a family picnic. While Jack is driving, Amanda brings up the possibility of them moving to California: she doesn't want to, but Jack insists it's the best option. While they are quarreling, they get into a terrible car accident. It causes Jack's death and leaves Amanda in a wheelchair, unable to move or open her eyes. At the funeral, two men were discussing where the kids and Amanda would live. Lou overhears and says they can go stay with their great-grandma in Virginia. She agrees to take them. Lou and Oz board a train with Amanda and her nurse. They see the Appalachian Mountains for the first time. The nurse leaves to smoke a cigarette. Oz tries to "heal" Amanda with a quartz necklace.
Greed has been a problem that has plagued society from the moment that society began. Roman statesman, Lucius Annaeus Seneca offers the following words on the nature of greed: “For greed all nature is too little.” This idea that a greedy mind can never rest has been prevalent throughout society for as long as society has existed and one of the strongest examples of this mindset is the roaring 20’s. The 1920’s were a time of change, classes changes were beginning and everyone was scrambling for their own share of the new wealth. F. Scott Fitzgerald chronicles this shift from traditional American values to a world where greed and wealth control everything in his famous novel The Great Gatsby. He shows how a greedy mind can never be satisfied, but the greedy will do whatever they can to attempt to reach satisfaction. Fitzgerald demonstrates this through the character of Jay Gatsby. Gatsby is a member of the class of new money who started life as a poor American from North Dakota who gained his wealth through organized crime. Fitzgerald uses Gatsby’s transition from Gatz to Gatsby to show his drift from typical American values, he uses Gatsby’s mafia ties to show how greed corrupts morality, and he uses Gatsby’s attraction to Daisy to show how Gatsby will do anything to feel like part of the upper class. All of this culminates in Fitzgerald showing how the struggle for wealth has lead to the collapse of the American concept of morality in Gatsby’s life.
Even though dawn had now broke and the sun began to make its way through the land of the Danes, the sinister laugh from the unsightly creature remained to haunt the minds of the survivors. Thirty men the monster murdered. The creature’s attack was cold-blooded in that it took place after every man was sound asleep and undefended. A few fortunate ones fell in their slumber while the less fortunate perished from the brutish beatings of the beast. His escape painted over the grounds of the misty forests and hills and lay a direct, crimson path to the creatures retreat. Of those lucky to have not slept in Herot, the lands finest mead hall, the most thankful was one of Hrothgar’s leaders, Aeschere. His choice of sleeping in his home was greatly affected by his son’s recent coming of age. Aeschere’s time had become his sons for he needed his father 's mastery to become a mighty warrior like his father.
What is intertextuality? Intertextuality is a word that introduced by Julia Kristeva, a philosopher, literary critic, feminist and a novelist. Kristeva defined Intertextuality as a “mosaic of quotation”, which means that all texts that are derived from the natural process and transformation of other type of content (Martin, 2011). It is also called referencing an original idea that has previously been produced. In essence, it is to take an original work of art and turn it into a whole new idea or artistic style. The following essay will explore of how intertextuality is used in Baz Lurhmann’s “The Great Gatsby”.
The story begins at the residence of Kate and Julia Morkan, two elderly sisters who host an annual dance and dinner on the Feast of the Epiphany. The sisters await the arrival of their favourite nephew, Gabriel Conroy, and his wife, Gretta. When
It follows the story of an elderly couple, Grant and Fiona. Throughout the course of the story, Grant and Fiona transform from smitten college students to an elderly couple with flashbacks of experiences they endured between then and now. Grant and Fiona’s marriage goes through different stages, nevertheless remaining intact. Munro brilliantly weaves love, time, betrayal, aging, and psychological disorientation into the prominent theme of change while depicting the journey of an ageless