Neal Caffrey

the rules. But he does it in a way that’s often lovable, and that often results in good things for the culture at large,” (Sutherland). One of these more recent tricksters being portrayed by a man on television is the character Neal Caffrey of the program White Collar. Neal is an ex-convict, ex-con artist more specifically, who was incarcerated and instead of serving time in prison is working with the FBI as an insider on cases. First of all, he is a trickster because he was, and very might well still

focused on characters and how they interact. Every single one of his characters possesses unique traits and personalities. He somehow manages to create characters that the audience strives to be, and yet they are all pretty normal people. Take Neal Caffrey for example. He is the main character of White Collar and a pretty normal person. He turns from his life of crime and seeks a home, friends, and family (Eastin). The audience wants to be like him not because of the life he was given, but because

the relationship between Neal Caffrey, who is an art thief and forger and Peter Burke, a FBI agent. They both work together in the White Collar FBI division to solve crimes in their everyday lives. White Collar centers on the unlikely crime-solving partnership between Neal Caffrey (Matt Bomer), a charming con man turned consultant for the FBI, and Peter Burke (Tim DeKay), the Federal Agent charged with keeping him on the right side of the law (“White Collar”1). When Neal escaped from a maximum-security

Neal Cassady: The Man Who Set The World Free Neal Cassady grew up as a quasi-homeless wayfaring boy with his alcoholic, unemployed father in the projects of Denver. His unconventional upbringing led to adolescence rife with theft, drug use, and extreme sexual awakening at a young age. Cassady grew up quite quickly and led an overexposed life, which foreshadows his death at the age of 42 of exposure, next to railroad tracks in Mexico. His life, however, seems to be regarded by many as the eighth

On The Road and the American Quest        Jack Kerouac's On The Road is the most uniquely American novel of its time.  While it has never fared well with academics, On The Road has come to symbolize for many an entire generation of disaffected young Americans.  One can focus on numerous issues wh en addressing the novel, but the two primary reasons which make the book uniquely American are its frantic Romantic search for the great American hero (and ecstasy in general), and Kerouac's "Spontaneous

technology correlates to our current world. In the novel The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson, humans live alongside nanobots (and various other technology) in a transhumanist world. In this advanced world, the ideas of morality and ethics are still present within the human race. In many aspects, the morality and ethical issues that humans encounter today are reencountered in this transhuman world. In the novel The Diamond Age, Neal opens the story with the

Vianney Mangyao Ms. Hamill AP English Literature 26 October 2017 What’s so hip about the Beat?     The Beat Generation can be perceived in many ways depending on how a person may translate the traits characterizing it but the real definition of this generation remains the same all throughout. The Beat Generation is a literary movement that happened during the 1950’s after World War II and was greatly influenced by a group of artists and authors who explored. The Beat movement was centralized in certain

In Jack Kerouac’s novel On the Road, the main character, Sal, battles with his white identity. He spends most of his time on the road, traveling long distances across the United States and back and meeting different people from various backgrounds during his road trips. Throughout the course of his novel, he frequently takes on other forms of identities and appears to detach himself away from not only his own character, but from his own hometown and upbringing. At the end of Part Two, Sal has decided

“We gotta go and never stop going till we get there.” “Where are we going, man?” “I don’t know but we gotta go.” (238) And: - . “„What‟s your road, man?‟” Dean asks later, “„-holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It‟s an anywhere road for anybody anyhow‟” (Kerouac: 237). These conversations between Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty in On the Road shows that Kerouac has used the technique of spontaneous prose to mirror spontaneity in the characters. The characters do not have

The Beat Generation is a literary movement during the 1950s that consisted of male authors including the widely known Allen Ginsberg, who explored American culture in their poems. The Beat Generation could be described as misogynistic and patriarchal due to their exclusion of women and concerns confined to only male outcasts. In Allen Ginsberg’s 1956 “Howl”, he brings his audience’s attention to male outcasts in society. In her 2015 “Howl”, a critical response to Ginsberg’s “Howl”, Amy Newman explores