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    Women In The Great Gatsby

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    The meaning of literature novels are connected to the context of the time and can enlighten readers of it. This is true of the novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published in 1926 depicted a materialistic and consumerist society where social and moral values were slowly decaying. It shown through the eyes of the narrator, Nick Carraway who illustrates the world and the people around him and their values; starting with Daisy and Tom Buchanan and the infamous Jay Gatsby. The text

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    keep reading until I knew everything that happened in that book. The Great Gatsby, in my opinion, is a well-written and compelling novel. A novel full of twists and turns, with mysteries and several truths for the reader to uncover. The Great Gatsby is not just a simple story about the Jazz Age; it tells of relationship complications, one man’s background and his rise to power, and how one man got involved with something much larger

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    is comparable to Nile Kinnick. Kinnick won the Heisman in 1939 for his hard work, dedication, and ability to play football. Rawlings won the Pulitzer Prize in 1939 for her novel, The Yearling, for her deliberate use of sensory details, figurative language, and artful syntax. The appliance of sensory details throughout the novel enhance the story by depicting a vivid image of the characters and their situations. On page 224, Rawlings describes the events of the morning of the storm. “The fawn came

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    The world has observed multiple authoritarian governments rise throughout history. These regimes have carried a façade in front of their subjects to remain powerful and glorified. However, the true circumstances of the society are not perfect, in fact, they convey the opposite. Such governments, impose their ideologies amongst their innocent citizens. Citizens are unable to speak out against their government or hold political freedoms. To remain in power, the reigning party must utilize tactics to

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    regimes seek to establish complete political, social and cultural control.”(Nazi Fascism and the modern totalitarian state) and “dictatorships seek limited, typically political, control.”(Nazi Fascism and the modern totalitarian state). We can look at novel 1984 where Winston is a member of the outer party, this means that he is a regular person from the street. While he is under the reign of Big Brother there is not much that he can do, Everything has to go Big Brothers way, he has totalitarian reign

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    A good example of this is the novel “Inside Out and Back Again” by Thanhha Lai. The novel tells the story of a young Vietnamese girl, caught in the middle of the war in 1975. Há and her family of five escape from their lifelong home to go to America. With very little knowledge of English, she must fight her way

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    The Great Gatsby: Did Money Kill the Great? Many people claim that The Great Gatsby is the quintessential American novel. This is due to the reoccurring theme of the book of the rise and fall of the American dream. The book is very significant because of its relation to the time period in which it was written and the actual events that were taking place in the world in and around the 1920's. This period was called the "Roaring 20's" because of the economy at the time was through

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    newly wealthy resident of New York City who has achieved his fortune by entering the bootlegging business and essentially strives to achieve what he believes is the American Dream in what seems to be a novel particularly about his crusade for the aristocrat Daisy Buchanan. However, at the end of the novel, Gatsby is abruptly struck down and dies virtually alone. The reality and

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    her writing. The novel, Homegoing, written by Yaa Gyasi explores the social conflicts in Ghana and America between the 18th and 21st century by showing the parallels between slavery and the suffering of women, which in turn received positive criticism. Gyasi used many aspects of her life to shape her novel. As an example, growing up, Gyasi found it difficult to fit in because her skin differentiated

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    We By Zamyatin

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    Seeing Totalitarianism The book WE is a novel written in 1921 by a Russian author named Yevgeny Zamyatin, in which the future is depicted as totalitarian and possibly dystopian society. A totalitarian society because the government is centralized and dictatorial, a dystopian society because the community depicted in the novel is undesirable and frightening by the standards of the day. The style in which Zamyatin wrote the novel is graphic in both the visual context and the ideology of the

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