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Evidently, there is a great deal of realism in The Great Gatsby. For example, many aspects of Gatsby’s status are real. Like Tom Buchanan, who’s standing Gatsby is trying to achieve, Gatsby possesses a large amount of wealth. In this sense, his status is high and factual. Howbeit, Jay Gatsby is undeniably, an illusion created…

All livings things have one thing in common, the will to survive. Every living thing wants to survive, and they will all do whatever it takes to survive. Yann Martel’s Life of Pi shows exactly that, the struggle that a teenage boy goes through in order to survive. He abandoned his beliefs and used his…

John Steinbeck’s novella “The Pearl” is a kind of parable about how the things we think we want desperately can sometimes destroy our lives. Steinbeck introduces us to a young family of indigenous Mexicans who make a living pearling. Kino, his wife Juana, and their baby son Coyotito live in a poor village on the…

First published in 1949, “1984” is a dystopian novel by an English novelist and critic George Orwell. The book features totalitarianism as the major theme being driven by the eight characters led by Winston Smith who is the main protagonist. Alongside totalitarianism, the book also highlights other ideas such as technology, physical control, information censure,…

In literary works, cruelty often functions as a crucial motivation or a major social or political factor. Select a novel, play, or epic poem in which acts of cruelty are important to the theme. Then write a well-developed essay analyzing how cruelty functions in the work as a whole and what the cruelty reveals about…

The novel 1984 by George Orwell is one in which there is an interesting central character. However, the protagonist shows Winston Smith’s demise was inevitable from the start. George Orwell is the author of the book 1984 which is about a character called Winston Smith, who is a member of the ruling party in Oceania….

In Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, the utilization of various literary devices are used and placed throughout the story with meaning and importance. With the creative use of these tools, Conrad gives his readers an opportunity to understand the main concepts and ideas he is trying to portray through his work, yet still leaves the…

Author, Truman Capote, in his non-fiction thriller, “In Cold Blood”, recounts the gruesome murder of the Clutter family in, Holcomb Kansas. Clutters purpose is to inform the public of what really happened to the Clutters and their killers. Truman uses pathos, allusion, and a sympathetic tone to describe the dismal story to the reader. Capote…

‘Blackness engulfed the room as light seeped in the dark corners and crevices. Taking tentative steps, the man edged closer to the lean figure sleeping peacefully on the bed. Oblivious to the stranger’s intentions, the old man slept peacefully for seven nights, impervious to the looming death that awaited him on the eight-night. The man…

In the novel, Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley, John discovers that life in the new world was not what he was hoping for. The new world is a place where technology aids society’s goal of putting people in different classes based on their intelligence, and everyone is conditioned to be content with their…