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Name Instructor Publisher Date How alcohol symbolizes and how it contributes to the theme in ceremony ceremony is a book about the anguish of headaches and nausea that plagued young men, including Tayo, a World War II veteran.... One of the aspirations in ceremony was to undermine the typecast of the drunken Indian by presenting the basis of alcoholism and by causing readers to commiserate with the alcoholic Indian's predicament.... This paper, therefore, seeks to explore what the alcohol which the veterans turn to in order to heal their post traumatic disorders symbolizes, and how it contributes to the theme in ceremony....
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Name here Professor English 16 October 2012 The Great Irony Francis Scott Fitzgerald's The great gatsby is based in the “The Roaring Twenties,” a period which will forever be known for its materialistic opulence and extravagance, and, ironically, also for it moral decadence and depravity.... After a close analysis of Fitzgerald's The great gatsby, it becomes quite evident that he uses various characters to show how affluence and the quest to gain it - the American dream - can become the very vehicle that ushers in misery....
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ceremony by leslie Marmon Silko The novel Ceremony has been written by Leslie Marmon Silko.... silko's in depth knowledge of the Laguna Pueblo tribe is because she also belonged to that tribe.... hellip; ceremony is a novel which explains about the journey of Tayo who belongs to the Laguna Pueblo tribe.... ceremony is a beautifully written story which combines poetry as well as prose to explain the reader its real meaning....
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He has done justice to gatsby by making him a hero and by calling him 'The Great Gatsby'.... It is a satire and fitzgerald has mocked the hypocritical tendencies of American people, which proved to be destructive to the American Society.... fitzgerald has very beautifully portrayed these two characters.... The story in this novel revolves around two main characters, Daisy and gatsby.... Knowing her interests, gatsby lies to her about his wealth....
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A close reading of Fitzgerald's The great gatsby and Silko's Ceremony will prove to be a genuine eye opener.... Critics often assert that The great gatsby is a uniquely American novel that depicts American characters and themes.... The great gatsby: The American Dream.... In Ceremony silko creates a protagonist who has been psychologically wounded by service in the Army during World War II and who encounters racism and brutality when he attempts to return to reservation life afterward....
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The report "Importance of Vision and Blindness in The great gatsby" particularly discusses the importance of the concepts of vision and blindness in the novel The Great Gadsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald.... The great gatsby presents a complex vision of the interrelation between impulses, and its final meaning resides in an understanding of the nature of that relationship.... According to fitzgerald, an era wherein staid conservatism and values of the previous decade were turned left behind as money, opulence, and exuberance became the order of the day....
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Scott fitzgerald and ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko are stories about… racters that identify too strongly with materialism causing a loss of identity by becoming alienated from their families, religion, communities, class relations, and many other issues.
The Great Gatsby, written by F.... The two novels The great gatsby by F.... Ceremony, written by leslie Marmon Silko, describes the story of Tayo, a war veteran of mixed ancestry, a half white, half-Laguna Native American, who returns from fighting against Japan in the Second World War....
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Ambition can thus be very fruitful but it also has its own disadvantages, especially in instances that an individual can go to… Therefore, the quote, “Ambition is a drug that makes its addict's potential madmen,” is very applicable to Gatsby and Myrtle in the novel, “The great gatsby.... ?? (fitzgerald 189)
For Myrtle, she has an ambition to be happy with another and not her husband George, therefore, she goes to the extremes of loving another man....
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