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Literary Analysis of the Watchful We in W.Faulkners A Rose for Emily Literature Essay
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It has been debated by critics whether or not the narrator is a woman. Some critiques argue that the narrator must have been one of the former lovers of Emily Grierson or some boy who could remember Mr. Grierson with his whip in the hand. Some hold the stand that the narrator could have been the town’s gossip that leads to the breaking down of the door.
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The Power of Government in the Novel The Hunger Games Literature Essay
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Analysts such as Layfield, Muller, and Thomas have described the different levels of abuse of power by the president depicted by Collins as has been described above. Such outstanding illustrations of the abuse of power exhibited in the book only prove that it is one of the main themes that Collins sought to address. 
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Textual Analysis: What Every Soldier Should Know by Brian Turner Literature Essay
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Conversely, he made me feel distressed by affirming that people kill each other for no reason, but because they have money, power, and hence do not need anything else except fun.  That made me think a lot. Each soldier has a different point of view from the war. When they are back, they tell their stories based on what happened to them there.
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Analysis of the Novel Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez Literature Essay
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Among the cultural realities of the women who wrote these readings is that most of them had experienced slavery firsthand as well as the dominant white European culture. Because of this, as well as because they had lost their original African culture, they wrote in the language and culture of those who had been their masters. 
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Tragic Figures of Ancient and Modern Tragedies - Othello vs Oedipus Literature Essay
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The tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, is a play by Shakespeare. Oedipus, the king, is a famous play written by Sophocles. The play revolves around the rise and fall of Oedipus. These two plays are tragedies because both Othello and King Oedipus are portrayed as tragic. The plots of both plays are structured as the true form of tragedy.
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The Haiku of Bugbee vs Basho's Meditations on Death and the Sublime Literature Essay
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Basho was a perfect crafter of haiku poems. He was born near Kyoto in Iga-Ueno in 1644. His youthful life was spent with a local lord and that is when he got to learn writing the verse of seventeen-syllable. In his composition of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, he demystifies the natural world meticulously.
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Unwillingness to Change of Literary Characters Literature Essay
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Narratives or their absence allow understanding what life people live behind their doors, what sorrows they hide, and what feelings they feel. Adaptation to the changing reality is what makes a person really alive because stability is the most elusive thing in the world. It concerns literary characters and real people whom they resemble.
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African Americans in Literature Literature Essay
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Though life seems to be going fine for her on the surface, it is the twisted reality of things underneath the surface which bothers Dina to no end. This is because she is a grownup person and well-aware of her surroundings which can be characterized as a white elitist environment. Packer’s portrayal of chief African American concerns is remarkable in this short story.
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A Rose for Emily vs A Good Man is Hard to Find Literature Essay
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Short stories are brief works of literature that are frequently written by creative writers mostly in narrative prose. These stories mostly focus on self-contained incidents that influence human behaviors. The writers create characters that act imprudently in an attempt to evoke an emotional response from the readers.
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Willy Loman a Tragic Hero Literature Essay
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The author states that Willy Loman struggles to hold onto them against the society. His foolish pride, poor judgment, and disloyalty are equally to blame as the society is to for all his misfortunes. He believes firmly in the American dream. He also believes that all men can equally come from humble beginning rising to greater heights.
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Jessica Stockholder Views Literature Essay
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Jessica can preserve her general ability to let go of her emotions in her art (which is evident in color solutions) and controlling her artistic impulses ( which is obvious in her forms solution). She is one of those authors who are aware of the fact that disturbing t reality with something not important is sinful so Jessica takes what she sees around as the objects and transforms reality.
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Cultural Analysis of the Third Life of Grange Copeland Literature Essay
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In a strange way, the depiction of gender bias and abuse of women has been adeptly accomplished by the writer in each character’s story. Mem, Brownfield’s wife, faces drunken torture and abuse in hands of her husband and dies a similar “embittered” fate as Margaret, Brownfield’s mother (Walker 2011, p.150).
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Southern Influences in the Writing of Eudora Welty Literature Essay
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In retrospect, society is often a major factor that influences the works of authors. Authors write for a particular audience. As such, they must therefore write with the view t endearing to their target audience. Authors live in particular societies and must therefore approach their work with the view to analyzing social, political, and cultural issues, as they exist in their societies.
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Portrait of Hamlet, King Claudius Literature Essay
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King Claudius is the antagonist of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, a personality he makes use of in order to attain power. He is both intelligent and well-spoken and these two traits harmonize the reason for his being scheming and treacherous in nature (Bloom 45). King Claudius possesses a conscience that makes him such a complex villain.
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Science Fiction, Technology, and Our Modern World Literature Essay
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Edward James defines utopia as a community or society that possesses a highly desirable or almost perfect quality (James, 2004). The term is used to describe an attempt to create an ideal society that is imagined and only portrayed in science fiction. Utopia is a perfect society undergoing continuous improvement.
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Analysis of Joseph Conrad's Novel the Heart of Darkness Literature Essay
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 This was a curious book. It did not offer a great deal of information on Conrad but what it did offer was idiosyncratic and interesting. The writing was of fine quality and it was perhaps for this reason that I came away with a good opinion of the book. But as far as an elaboration of the theme of my thesis it was a little lacking.
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The Play Richard II Literature Essay
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Whereas Richard II portrays an ancient leadership style where the rulings were commonly made from a collective sitting of elders, Bolingbroke presents the contemporary form of ruling; he presents a utilitarian leader. Shakespeare draws his writings from the happenings around him; this is mostly during the rule of Queen Elizabeth.
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Comparison of an Autobiography and a Biography Literature Essay
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In conclusion, biographies and autobiographies are two publications that are closely related. The relationship exists despite the contrasts that are exhibited. This relationship is through the context of the two. The use of tenses creates a sharp contrast that is evident in the biographies and autobiographies.
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Questions in American Literature Literature Essay
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The majority of African American authors have written in-depth about racial discrimination from the period of slavery. All three stories have detailed information on how racial segregation occurred in American societies. Battle Royal by Ellison reveals how the blacks participated in the battles due to financial problems.
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400 Blows as a Film and Donald Duk as a Book Literature Essay
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The spirit and style illustrated by Donald Duk do not reflect the characters of much of the earlier works by the chin. While in other words, the outrage of the jaw, and his combativeness, virtually drove him to declare war on his audience. He has previously announced that theatre writing is like making war.
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The Comparison of 1984 with Irans Ruling System Literature Essay
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He existed during the time when oppression was real in Spain and other nations where the government is seen to the blind around its people. Moreover, starvation, forced labor, and mass killing were common. Orwell has voiced his influential political approaches on the desire to change other people’s knowledge (Orwell).
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Changing External Environment of a Maritime Organization Literature Case Study
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The economic growth, socio-political environment, and the legal or ecological factors don’t always directly affect a shipbroking firm, but, they can do it indirectly by changing the volume of world trade, NTBs imposed by countries, and other legal or financial regulations imposed to curb the functionality of the shipping industry per se. (Khan, A, 2001).
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I Saw Ramallah Literature Case Study
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Barghouti’s personal and professional life affected his memory of public events. He was not fond of politics, but political events of that time influenced and affected him, and this affection is reflected in his book. He perceived the world political events through a wide scale of his own experience.
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Beowulf - Fame after Death Is the Noblest of Goals Literature Coursework
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A true hero fears nothing, especially not death. Beowulf is well aware that regardless of the outcome, battles such as that with Grendel, Grendel’s mother, and the dragon will add to the reputation that is his legacy to the living world after his death. As such, he shows no fear, and is content to let fate “unwind as it must!”
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My Kinsman, Major Molineux by Hawthorne Literature Essay
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My Kinsman, Major Molineux by N. Hawthorne comes across as a story about growing up and becoming more mature. From the research done regarding the story, it is evident that not only the protagonist matures as a person but also the country and the town that surrounds him change in a less noticeable way.
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Volpone by Ben Jonson Literature Book Report/Review
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Regardless of the level of society, Jonson illustrates how the concepts of greed and lust lead to the ruin of the aristocracy, at the same time commenting upon the state of the social classes that existed in 17th century Italy. The corruption of court politics is barely disguised in the actions of the characters as they vie for Volpone’s fortunes.
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The Dichotomies of Life Ceremony Literature Book Report/Review
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The ceremony does not breed racial animosity, but on the other hand, it portrays a great sense of sorrow and awareness of how and this can be found in the following phrase –“how much can be lost, how much can be forgotten." Tayo's spiritual healing is seen as a sort of offering of redemption for tribal cultures. 
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The Role of the Narrator in A Coyote Columbus Story and History Lesson Literature Coursework
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While King involves his reader into a Native American perspective by insisting on bringing him personally into the story through a first-person narrative structure, Armstrong is equally effective at bringing her readers into her viewpoint through an omniscient approach, detached and removed from the ordinary plain. 
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Sophocles: Oedipus Rex Literature Book Report/Review
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 In Oedipus Rex, Oedipus is the central hero around which the whole play revolves. Even though he commits some of the most dreadful acts, yet there is no getting away from the fact that he is the one who saved the people of Thebes from ruin. Therefore, it is befitting to call him a hero, even though he had to pass through pain and devastation to achieve it.
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Cultural Transformations in The Jungle Literature Book Report/Review
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Indeed the conflicts between the past cultural values of the Jurgis family and the circumstance-driven cultural transformations make the best part of the novel. The mainstream of transformations of culture in the novel lies in the thread of how the exuberant and exotic spirit of Lithuanian culture yields to the lethargy of the concrete jungle of an industrial society.
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Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking and Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman Literature Essay
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Whitman’s comments regarding the fields and orchards in “Song of the Open Road” are actually very similar to comments made by Thoreau in his own book Walden. As Thoreau discusses the process of buying and then losing ownership of a farm, he illustrates the transcendental approach to the concept of possession.
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Pride and Prejudice and Relationships Literature Book Report/Review
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This does not stop Elizabeth Bennet from attracting his attention when she shows open distaste for his personality. There are many messy relationships similar to this throughout the novel, and the majority of the relationships do not end in the way they originally started.
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Burmese Days by George Orwell Literature Book Report/Review
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Being physically strong and tall, and having fair-complexion, advanced technology, and latest armed equipment, the British looked highly commanding and impressive in comparison with the local people, who maintained very high opinion about the colonizers and looked upon their colonizers with great envy taking them as the superior race.  
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Analysis of The Chrysanthemums by John Steinbeck Literature Book Report/Review
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Unfortunately, Elisa's spirit dies again when she finds out that the tinker betrayed her trust. She is devastated when she sees that her hard work, her "children" have been cast adrift on the side of the road where they will be destroyed. She entrusted her chrysanthemums to this stranger who she thought was trustworthy and she finds that he did not care (10).
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Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom Literature Book Report/Review
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This book is presented with a straight-forward, clear-eyed approach that leaves no room for modesty or evasion.  This makes it easy to read and the lessons very approachable.  Even when you try to resist the idea of being taught something, the book is not overly preachy and is instead interesting enough to keep you wanting to read further. 
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An Inspector Calls by Priestley Literature Book Report/Review
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The play is definitely a product of the post-war move towards a more socialized agenda, its underlining message is still extremely relevant for today’s audiences. The themes of social and individual change and their necessity for achieving a more balanced world are abundantly evident. One only must consider the globalized effects of global warming.
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The Life of This Boy Literature Book Report/Review
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Jack faces in his life due to his troubled past. He is subject to abuse both, mentally and physically which drives him to indulge in self-destructive behavior. These behaviors stemmed from the mistakes performed in the innocence of youth. It was driven by the troubled relationships of his mother with his biological father and her subsequent partners.
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Literature in the Modern Age Literature Coursework
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It needs to be remembered that liberal education is not a particular system of the education process that has been emerged through the modern intellectual revolution. It actually depends to a great extent on a person that how he is utilizing the education and keeping himself flexible to inculcate the traits of liberal education. 
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Romeo and Juliet Act I, Scene V Literature Coursework
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This essay discusses that the dramatic effect that is offered in the opening of the fifth scene in the first act is the typical rush and concern that comes with preparing a large gathering of people. To the servants, it becomes clear that not everybody is going to want to help or pull their weight by making sure the preparations are as they should be.
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The Story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson Literature Book Report/Review
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However, we can not say if or not people tend to be correct because the criteria of rationality are different for different people. It is, though, true that there can always be some justification for any action an individual displays, though not all are convinced by that justification at the same time.
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Anna Beer about Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer and Patriot Literature Book Report/Review
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Milton has very cleverly created the context of Paradise Lost in such a way that there would be stylistic resemblances to his political work. In a very noteworthy manner, Milton created the situation in Paradise Lost so that the characters find themselves in an environment that is inherently political (Carey, 1971).
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Significance of the Dog in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace Literature Book Report/Review
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 In the story, the protagonist is Professor David Lurie, and Coetzee’s notion of life with its harsh realities and brutal tyranny being replaced by murderous anarchy are reflected through his protagonist David in South Africa, a place filled with social and political conflicts.
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Suicide and its Cultural Impact as Depicted through Literature Literature Essay
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The protagonist of the story, Okonkwo is seen throughout the book as a man of honor, who upholds the traditions of the clan he belongs to. But when he returns from the seven years of Exile his clan enforced upon him, he finds that things have changed and in an attempt to change them back to how they were, Okonkwo finds himself betrayed by his people and his expectations of them.
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Tain, By Gregory Frost Literature Book Report/Review
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Readers are always optimistic that, fiction should carry their attention, while a non-fiction should have a convincing tone. It becomes different when we reading a romance novel or a science fiction, we have to suspend the beliefs; however in non-fiction reason and evidence are not optional. 
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Trifles by Susan Glaspell Literature Book Report/Review
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According to the law, it is not the right decision but again, one might argue that once Mrs. Wright is freed, the other women will get together to help her start a clean and independent life. The liberation that they feel in hiding the clue is, indeed, a moment of exultation in their lives as they know that this is the only way they can gain the respect and freedom that they have always wanted.
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Analysis of Edgar Allen Poe's Work Literature Case Study
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Poe’s spooky idealism and the uncertainty with respect to time and space have also made him one of the pioneers of American Romanticism. To quote the words of Buranelli, "He has created a universe, given it psychological laws without denying the existence of the moral law, and peopled it with characters appropriate to such a universe.
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Ways of Seeing Literature Book Report/Review
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The author posits that the representation of women in mainstream culture still represent strong elements of the ultimate character, personality, and her own concept and understanding of self worth and presence. This fundamental representation of self-awareness, the author argues, has been instilled culturally.
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Troy between Greece and Rome Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that Troy had been the subject of brutal war from the Greeks in the Trojan War classical myth. Andrew, in the subtitle” Homer and Archaic Age” outlines the turn of events, their unraveling, and the aftermath. He outlines the onset of the Trojan War as the result of Paris, the son of King Priam of Troy, eloping with a wife of Menelaus.
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Text Analysis of Rudyard Kiplings Poem White Mans Burden and George Orwells Essay Shooting an Elephant Literature Book Report/Review
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There is no denying the fact that imperialism is a concept that invokes a mixed response from the people, depending on whether the evincing person is affiliated to an imperialist nation or the one that has been subjugated. In a present context, when the notions of imperialism tend to accrue negative aspersions, it is much easier to condemn and criticize imperialism.
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The Relationship between the Major and Minor Character in The Great Gatsby Novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald Literature Coursework
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The main theme in the novel is the American dream as well as wealth and possessions. This is evidenced by characters like the Buchanans who love wealth. It tends to portray the fact that the American dream can be deadly when most people view money as their ultimate achievement and the money can do and buy anything that they want.   
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