... believes that money can recreate the past, can buy him happiness, and can be helpful in achieving a level of prestige in the rich East Egg. Jay Gatsby believes he can buy happiness and this is show through his house, his clothes, and through Daisy. He owns a large portion of finances due to some mysterious source of wealth, and he uses this mystery source to buy his house, his clothes, and Daisy. Gatsby's house, as Fitzgerald describes it, is "a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool and more than forty acr ...

... not get his name from out of the blue. He is violent, angry, and set in his own ways and beliefs. His wife that left him and the one friend that he has are all reflective signs of his horrendous behavior. He walks around the school with a baseball bat, rather than a clipboard or briefcase. The fear that he "earns" is more prevalent than the respect that the students and teachers have for him. He likes to be known as "HNIC" – the "head nigger in charge." His absurd manners are strongly disliked by his fellow colleagues. He insults teachers in front of students and fires them when ...

... their own power to make things happen. The novel shows the development of Homo Economico, the economic man. With the voyages to the new colonies, many lower and middle class men prove able to create their own fortunes overnight. The concept of the Great Chain of Being becomes lost when members of the lower classes become wealthier than many of the upper class aristocrats. Now many men from the lower classes buy land and/or titles. When lower class members become landowners, the idea of Divine Right to rule over the land no longer proves valid. Defoe illustrates society’s changes through Crusoe, who battles w ...

... persecuted, despite his efforts to win these people and god to his side. Samuel wasn’t the typical person. He was not married, nor did he have children. As a matter of fact he did not like children at all. The town that Samuel Paris lived in, Salem was an ordinary town. Salem was located near the wilderness. The continent spread far west and most of it was a mystery to the people of Salem. Every now and then Indian tribes would move in and out of there. But in the town of Salem lots of helpful people, and no one really had time to fool around. Everyone in the town knew one another and there was no, ...

... Gloucester, Richard plays a major part in the action and at first look, I think that the reader could think that Richard is in fact a 'man of action' because of his handling of the Mowbray-Bolingbroke situation. When Richard pronounces that Mowbray and Bolingbroke shall fight to the death "At Coventry upon St. Lambert's Day" (I, i, 199), the reader could mistake this act of 'showmanship' as the act of a leader who was ready to stand up and take action when a problem arose. However, as we see later, in Act 1 scene 3, Richard's order for Mowbray and Bolingbroke's lives to answer their accusations was only to ...

... family and became a soldier/ doctor/ author/ teacher. Though he wrote textbooks on medicine and numerous poems he will be forever remembered as being the voice of the many who had fallen during WWI. “In Flanders Field,” stirred the hearts of soldiers and their family’s everywhere- not just Canada. In a simple language and with flowing verse it vividly evoked the situation and emotions of the front line troops. John McCrae’s poem later inspired the poppy to become the symbol of Remembrance and sacrifice. John McCrae was born in Guelph, Ontario on November 30,1872 to two established, respec ...

... reality through Pip's expectations of something better, social status, and settings in the book. The most important illusion is Pip's confident expectations of a better life. Pip began the book out poor, and was sent for to spend time every week with an upper-middle-class crazy woman and her heartless adopted daughter, Estella. From the moment he met Estella, he was in love with her. Later on in the book, he was provided with financial support from an un-named benefactor that should be used to go to London and become a gentleman. Pip assumed that Ms. Havisham, Estella's adoptive mother, was the benefactress. "My ...

... his way of thinking. Acting as a mirror of her husband was her only way of life. Then, when he died, her mirror was shattered. This left her unable to survive without reflecting her husband’s light, just as the show could not go on without the public coming to watch it. Following Kukin’s death, Olga knew to do nothing else but morn. As it says, “She was always in love with someone and could not live otherwise (Chekov, 46).� At this point, there was no one for her to love. Then, when timber merchant Pustovalov came along, she once again fell in love. This changed her life of theater into a new life ...

... did nothin to me." Huck questions, "Well, then, what did ya kill him for?" And the young lad answers, "Why nothin, only its on accout of the fued." This scene is showing that they are killing each other for unknown reasons. Buck killed a Shephardson just because and that is the only reason. He was brought up thinking to kill the Shephardson was the right thing to do. Later in the novel it is asked, "Well, who done the shooting? Was it a Grangerford or a Shephardson?" Buck replies, "Laws, how do I know? It was so long ago." The reader is sadden by this moment that is shown through irony. This feud is on ...

... literally shows a father and son spending time together. When the readers look into it deeper, they wonder why it doesn’t say "Father and son" instead of "father and boy" this implies that maybe the father and son aren't very close, or they have problems between them. The author writes this poem in the order of the life of the father and son., from life to death. The organization of the poem is created so that the readers will feel what is happening as the poem is being read. The literal meanings are said through words like time, voyaging, and seat backs. The metaphorical terms are expresse ...