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The trustworthiness and attentiveness of Nick Carraway, portrayed as a listener and an honest man, draw people in the novel to confide in him. These personal disclosures play a crucial role in advancing the plot and ultimately bringing it to a close. Nick’s lack of importance in his words causes everything else to hold significance….

In the play A View from the Bridge, Arthur Miller portrays Marco and Rodolfo both similarly and differently as they adopt significant roles in furthering the plot development and bringing forward Miller’s ideas on masculinity, violence, Sicilian values and justice. While Marco and Rodolfo have both illegally come to America for work, their personalities, their…

Summery of Comments of Moro Massacre by Mark twain. On March 12th nineteen hundred and six (1906) Mark Twain, celebrated american writer made a work called comments of the Moro massacre. This work concerned the engagement of five hundred and forty (540) U. S Army men with auxiliaries and the Moro of the Philippines which…

The idea of American Dream is “any people from any class can get successes and achieve their dreams through their hard work. To live off the “fate the land” and the American Dream both means “get achievement through their hard work” Even though their Dream Is unobtainable, there Is still some power of the American…

Joyce Carol Oates uses characterization and the coming of age effectively in “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been”, “Four Summers”, and “The Girl with the Blackened Eye”. She uses it to connect the three stories to each other. Connie and the girl in “The Girl with the Blackened Eye” are connected because they…

Write about Some of The Ways That Fitzgerald Tells The Story In Chapter 3 Chapter 3 is profusely important to the novel as it is the chapter in which the novel’s titular character, Jay Gatsby is finally introduced to the reader through the narrative voice of Nick Carraway. One of the ways that Fitzgerald does…

In “The Lottery,” the author employs various literary devices, with irony and symbolism being the most prominent. Jackson utilizes these devices to convey the hidden dark theme that is not apparent at the beginning of the story. Irony permeates nearly every paragraph, even extending to the ironic title of the story, which initially suggests something…

In Kurt Vonnegut Jr’s short story, ‘Harrison Bergeron’, the setting contributes significantly towards the meaning of the story. Set in the year 2081, an alternate reality in which the future USA government achieved “equality” among all citizens by enacting amendments that handicap those whom surpass other citizens in strength and talent. Vonnegut gives a satire…

Courage, Loyalty and the Human Spirit “Lord of the Flies” is a thought-provoking novel, written by Nobel Prize winning author William Gilding; about a group of British schoolboys who get stuck on an isolated island, and try to fend for and manage themselves; with catastrophic results. As the tale progresses, it becomes very clear that…

In Franz Kafkas fanciful novel The Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning to find that he as been transformed into a beetle. As the story progresses, we can see that Gregors life as a beetle is not all that different from Gregors life while in human form. Because of this we have to ask…