.... it’s modern form, generally fails to make that person happy. As for Gatsby’s dream to win Daisy’s love with elaborate material possessions, his attempts eventually lead to his death. Both the noble intentions and the resulting failures of the American Dream resemble the intentions and corruption of Jay Gatsby in the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. F. Scott Fitzgerald included many examples of the American Dream in the novel. Myrtle Wilson is an example of this. Myrtle, who was married to George Wilson, a low income mechanic, desired money and a higher social status. This desire, which is equivalent to the desire for mon .....

.... main character.) By his looks/appearance, “He [Spade] looked rather pleasantly like a blond satan” (p. 3). Suggesting he is not angelic looking like lets say Humphrey Bogard (an indication that the movie isn’t true to the novel). The film ruined the ironic un-charming hero concept the novel have and so do I as one of my first example of the “things-are-not-what-they-seemed-theory-for-Hammett’s message.” Spade is callous, avaricious, and shares a similarity with Mike from ‘The House of Games.’ Why I think Mike and Spade are similar? For one thing Brigid O’Shaughnessy gave Spade a talk/speech about him usin .....

.... more of the religion was sentimental to him. Marx a battle-tested soldier in the U.S. Army did not even recognize that he had already defeated an enemy set to wipe his heritage. PFC Grossbart and Captain Barrett were Marx’s next opponents. Grossbart first introduced himself as “Sheldon” to try to get on a first name basis with Marx for a familiarity that Marx did not want. Grossbart suspected Marx was Jewish by the spelling of his last name which he spelled out as “M-a-r-x”. Grossbart led Marx into believing he was interested in going to church instead of cleaning the barracks. Marx knowing it was unfair that they were denied the .....

.... and together they mark a recrudescence of the tragic spirit in what would seem an unlikely time, on unlikely soil, and without benefit of tragic theater or tragic audience. Both authors were aware of the untimeliness of their books. Hawthorne, in the famous letter to his publisher, Fields, spoke of fearing that his novel would "weary very many people and disgust some" by keeping so close, and with so little diversification, to "the same dark idea." Would he have an audience receptive to his peculiar view of things? The Greek and Elizabethan dramatists or Racine or even the poet of Job could count on an audience culturally predisposed through myth, theater, .....

.... concerning each others opinions. What started the confliction was when Suyuan starts to tell her daughter June that she can be anything she wants to be. At first, June is especially excited about the dreams she will become. "In all my imaginings, I was filled with a sense that I would become perfect...my parents would adore me" (143). This shattered dream will start when Suyuan pushes June to be successful in areas such as dance, academics, trivia quizzes, and piano. After failing the tasks, June begins to feel resentful towards her mother to becoming a child prodigy. She starts to see her mothers hopes as expectations, and if June did not live up to thi .....

.... our personal lives, and begin the great task of changing how all humans view and live out their lives. The wise and almost omnipotent teacher that had the task of changing the course of human history is, as one might imagine, a very special person. He had been watching us for a long time and was ready to share his knowledge of the human race and its inherent flaws. This “savior” just happened to be a gorilla named Ishmael. It was for that reason that a very special student was required to learn his lessons. “Teacher seeks pupil. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person”(4). This rather awkward request appeared in the personals sec .....

.... story. They are the kind of monsters that go “bump” in the night. Storybook monsters usually are created by some kind of accident or experiment, which causes some sort of deformation. These kinds of monsters often do nothing more than scare kids and don’t pose any real threat to anything in the real world. The real life monsters differ greatly from the storybook monsters. Almost all real life monsters are created from some problem from their home life. In some cases it can be caused by some problem with how they were treated as a child or it can even be caused by a fight with friends or family that causes them to leash out on the people around them. .....

.... used his novel to speak out against socialism and classism. In a society ruled by a character named Big Brother, the citizens are not only told how to act, but how to think and feel. The governing force of the society uses fear and brutality to control its citizens. Many of Orwell's predictions came true, and the majority of those that did not come true, are not very extreme. "Many believed these predictions to be those of a raving lunatic, I think not" (Leif 92). Although many of his predictions were not achieved in 1984, many are becoming reality in 1999. In his day, Orwell's predictions seemed outlandish, but today, many people would argue that his drea .....