The night was as cold as a freezer. The silhouette of the passing cars made Stanley feel like he was in a Labyrinth of thick trees and silvery ghosts surrounding him. But that couldn’t be. He was at Edward's house for the night. He tried to think of the things that he would do the following morning. Skiing and Sledding in the white blankets of the snow that would cover the ground. But that could not happen because of how cold he was feeling, despite having 3 layers of blankets and a small heater near him. Thinking about the shadowy room he was in, his eyelids got heavy and he drifted off into a dream.
Stanley found himself wearing a back armor suit holding a paintball gun. He was standing in the middle of a dense forest . The trees made a lot of shade giving him some camouflage. Sunlight penetrated the leaves giving small rays of sunlight through small openings and making the leaves glow gold. The scene was the most beautiful thing he’d ever seen. The position of the sun suggested that it was around 12 o’clock
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He found this voice to sound vaguely familiar. He took a peek and saw Edward running toward a tall tree with a bright orange banner tied to the second highest branch. Stanley realized that he was in the middle of a capture the flag game and he was supposed to be defending the flag. Silently, he loading his gun and fired at the group of invaders. The sound of paintball bullets rang through the air as shouts and wails pierced the silence of the forest. He was pretty good at this as with every shot, one person went down. The last person standing was Edward, who managed not to get shot in the chaos. The both of them stood facing each other at gunpoint. Stanley looked around him and saw bodies sprawled all over the ground. All of the people were moaning and cursing about the pain they were in, but none of them looked like they were getting up and continue fighting. He looked up at Edward who still held him at
1. The most crucial point in Chapter 1 is the call Tom receives from his lover. After Nick, Jordan, Tom, and Daisy spent a well mannered night together, the phone rings and Tom rushes to it. When Daisy follows behind it’s revealed it’s a mistress from New York. This is a crucial point as it reveals the falseness in Tom and Daisy’s relationship. Although it initially looked as if all was fine, a larger theme of disingenuousness is behind their relationship.
Chapter one introduces Hafid, a wealthy and successful salesman and his assistant Erasmus, a trusted worker and friend. Hafid lives in a beautiful palace with every type of luxury imaginable. He understand that he would die soon and askes Erasmus to estimate the value of his properties and to distribute them among others. Erasmus is now asked to give half his fortune to the poor as he did annually and sell his belongings in for gold. Hafid only intends to keep enough money to last him for the remaining of his life and the rest disturbed to the people who need it and to his emporiums. In doing this, Hafid promised Erasmus to share a secret that he had only told his wife. In Chapter 2, Erasmus does what he is told and when returning back was
4. Describe and explain why you would/would not like to have lived in the time or place of the story.
The New York Times article, Editorial Observer; Jay Gatsby, Dreamer, Criminal, Jazz Age Rogue, Is a Man for Our Times, highlights the actions of characters such as Jay Gatsby, Atticus Finch, and Holden Caulfield to the 21st Century. The article discusses how all three characters were listed by Book magazine to be names the Top 100 fictional characters since 1900. The character, Gatsby, was selected because of his trait to be the “cynical idealist, who embodies America in all of its messy glory.” The article continues on by stating how Gatsby would relate to a current American in today’s day in age. Many believe that Gatsby would be able to survive, and thrive, in today’s age knowing what readers know of his life in the 1920s. The author begins by
Chapter 1: Chapter one introduces the reader to the narrator Nick Halloway and most of the other other characters of the story. Including his cousin daisy, her husband tom and their friend jordan - the golfer. Nick comes from a wealthy family; however, doesn’t believe in inheriting their wealth. Instead he wishes to earn his own wealth by selling bonds in the stock market. Chapter one also talks about the separation of the rich. Where the east egg represents the inherently rich whereas west egg represents the newly rich. The people in the east also seem to lack social connections and aristocratic pedigree. Whereas the people in west egg possess all those qualities usually lacked by people in the east.With nick living
As I have thought and prayed a bit more about what you have experienced this weekend it strikes me that as you entered it with the expectation that it was a beginning, Ruben entered it with a number of lines drawn in the sand that He knew he couldn’t cross, and was entering the weekend seeking to discover where you stood in relationship to those lines before he took the risk of allowing his heart to get too attached. If he had, he may have found himself in a position later on having to decide between what his heart wanted and erasing the line he had drawn and stood behind for so long. As hard as this may be to understand, in many ways the decision has very little to do with the real you, and more to do with the wishdream he has been holding onto. I know it doesn’t ease the pain, and it may not even help with the confusion you are feeling, but I think it is true. He has an idea of what perfect looks like and he is committed to holding on to it. He has held it for 32 years. Maybe he
The division between East and West is a significant theme in The Great Gatsby. The author has projected the historical East/West division of the States on the division of class and society in the 20th century.
“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
“And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did now know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night”. F. Scott. Fitzgerald pg.180. The Great Gatsby is a novel about a wealthy, careless society with a brutal underside. In this society there are no morals, and the only goal is to achieve power no matter what the cost. Throughout this novel we see what the destruction of love can do.
In The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald, dreams, goals, and ambitions have a way of enticing and enchanting the characters. A goal becomes more than a goal; it becomes something into which the characters submerge themselves and by which they define themselves. These dreams then set up impossible expectations which are detached from what can realistically be achieved. Gatsby dreams of love with Daisy, a dream which eventually consumes his life. It seduces him into giving himself up entirely for its attainment. Similarly, Tom's ambitions to control every aspect of his life end up consuming him. It might be considered this fundamental tendency of human dreams to seduce the dreamers into dedicating themselves completely to those dreams which constitute their dangerous nature.
"I wish to be left alone," said Scrooge. "Since you ask me what I want, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don't make merry myself at Christmas, and I can't afford to make idle people merry." (pg. 6)
During the 1920's America was a country of great ambition, despair and disappointment. The novel The Great Gatsby is a reflection of this decade, it illustrates the burning passion one man has toward his "American Dream" and the different aspects of the dream. Fitzgerald's work is a reflection of America during his lifetime. The Great Gatsby shows the ambition of one man's reach for his "American Dream," the disappointment of losing this dream and the despair of his loss.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of the most compelling twentieth century writers, (Curnutt, 2004). The year 1925 marks the year of the publication of Fitzgerald’s most credited novel, The Great Gatsby (Bruccoli, 1985). With its critiques of materialism, love and the American Dream (Berman, 1996), this dramatic idyllic novel, (Harvey, 1957), although poorly received at first, is now highly regarded as Fitzgerald’s finest work (Rohrkemper, 1985) and is his publisher, Scribner 's most popular title, (Donahue, 2013). The novel achieved it’s status as one of the most influential novels in American history around the nineteen fifties and sixties, over ten years after Fitzgerald 's passing, (Ibid, 1985)
A Paper Concerning the Influence of Theoretical and Practical to Young People In the second half of “The History of the Novel” class. Our students got to know with three Novels: Hard Times, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and The Great Gatsby; which were narrated by Charles Dickens, James Joyce, and Fitzgerald respectively, in the late 19th century and the early 20th century. Each of those three novels depicts stories of characters who grew up in different social and educational background. It made me wondered, is formal education of theoretical and practical knowledge essential to each individual?
This reading assignment covered many great points but the two points that stood out the most were the history of the social welfare system and social welfare profession, and how the structure of it changed over the years. As needs arose and people became more educated, systems were put in place that would allow for those that were in need to get assistance. The concept of social workers is not a very old concept, the inception of them was as early as the 1800s. The structure of what social welfare as well as what is now classified as a social worker is completely different today than it was at its beginning.