The Roaring Girl

ENGLISH MONOLOGUE – The Crucible, Mary Warren – End of Act III Prop: poppet It is all on me now. I had the chance to put an end to this. Goody and Mr Proctor will hang because of me! I am the reason all of this is going to drag out until every person in Salem is dead. Mr. Proctor took me to the court, this was my chance to clear my conscience, and stay true to myself and God! (grab chest and then raise hands up to heaven) (hold poppet close to heart and then throw it on floor – out of regret for

The Roaring 20s, The Jazz age, the 1920s were a time of great prosperity in the United States. The 1920s were an era of change, both politically and socially. Americans began to move into cities, rather than living on farms, and the nation's wealth more than doubled. Buying the same goods, listening to the same music, dancing the same dances, and overall having the same values, people felt united. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, these values are reflected in the characters’

me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody." "This Side of Paradise". "Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life." "The Beautiful and Damned". These are only some of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novels. Throughout his life he experienced the American Dream and failure in life. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald born on September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota was the leading author of The Roaring Twenties also known

alter how the viewer interprets the movie. Major artistic choices in the movie are how the setting was shown, the characterization of Daisy, and Gatsby’s backstory. The movie rendition of The Great Gatsby excels at bringing the prosperity of the roaring 20s to life on-screen. The 1920s known for being very wild and crazy, and though the movie format, the 1920s are easier to visualize and makes it more stimulating. Even though the image of the setting

The boundless parties of the roaring 1920s reflected the wildness and new wealth being procured in the vibrant era. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, there is a scene depicting a party at Mr. Jay Gatsby’s, an extraordinarily wealthy and mysterious man, in which the attendees seem to have joyous and exciting lives. However, under the surface their lives hold little meaning and can be seen as depressing. Fitzgerald uses depictions of the attendees, descriptions of the food and drink

two young children, both eight years old. Their knees both scarred and faces smudged with dirt. Their soccer uniforms were both equally dirty, but it didn’t matter. The two of them had won the soccer championship. The one sitting behind the woman, a girl with light indigo hair tossed into a ponytail, began to speak. “Mom, can Kageshi spend the night?” She called, pulling on her seatbelt to peer over the passenger seat. “Not today, Rokumaru,” her mother replied, not glancing back at her. “You two need

approaching visitors and their mysteriousness. It becomes slow, low, and dark. However, as the people on the boat take the girl the music speeds up and crescendos and then finally tapers off as they leave in the boat. Scene 5: The music during this part is harsh, which represents the danger that is approaching. During certain sections, the music is drown out by the roaring of Kong and the screaming of the woman. However, it is still noticeable how the music speeds up as Kong gets closer to the woman

Oreleanna tells her story of how she gets fresh water for her family, “Not even water. It had to be carried a mile and half and boiled. ‘Boiled, a small word, meant twenty minutes over a roaring fire in a stove that resembled the rusted carcass of an Oldsmobile” (Kingsolver 92).In the Congo this is a normal occurrence hiking miles for water is the part of the culture. Americans do not realize the hardship of getting and boiling water because

Throughout the Roaring Twenties (20s), “the parties were bigger. The pace was faster, the shows were broader, the buildings were higher, the morals were looser, and the liquor was cheaper” (Fitzgerald 112, My Lost City). The 1920s was an innovated evolution, away from traditional morals of many Americans to those values less conservative and open-minded. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, and Ernest Hemingway’s, The Sun Also Rises, act as an exploration of Americans’ shift in values, post-World

Feminism is a topic that has been widely debated over the last two centuries and is still discussed today in schools, works of literature, and in the general public. The Great Gatsby, written by Scott K. Fitzgerald, was published in the midst of the Roaring Twenties, a time of great social change in the country. Fitzgerald reflects upon the time period’s view of women in his novel, criticizing feminism by presenting the relationships that female characters have with the other gender. Daisy Buchanan,