In Amy Tans story Two Kinds is a battle between two generations one being a Chinese American girl named Jing Mei and her mother a Chinese immigrant pursuing the American dream for her daughter Jing Mei is very much an American conditioned teenager and her mother is very much a Chinese born mother with her beliefs in child rearing extreme and absolute One key thing to remember in the story is Jing Mei is the child in the story while she can rebel she is dependent on her mother She is a restless
A Benign Indifference In The Outsider the author gives the readers the opportunity to walk in the shoes of the main character Meursault a seemingly detached and emotionless Frenchman who works as a shipping clerk in Algiers The Outsider is told in the first person and traces the development of Meursaults attitude toward himself and the rest of the world Camus way of creating a contrast between the two faces of Meursault can be seen by the separation of the book into two parts The first part des
In The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald captures the twenties by portraying the division of society The Buchanans live on one side East Egg and Jay Gatsby lives on the other side West Egg The Buchanans belong to the socialites yet their lives have no meaning Gatsby tries to chase the American Dream yet his idea is tarnished He throws parties to try and fit in with the socialites Gatsbys idea of the American Dream is doomed because he tries to buy his way into a society that will never accept him Gatsby
Heart of Darkness The journey to the heart of the Congo is a descent into the heart of darkness for both Marlow and Kurtz As they sail further and further from civilization into a land of savagery both Marlow and Kurtz begin to undergo significant psychological changes However the ways in which Marlow and Kurtz handle their descent into darkness are very different from each other Kurtz is at war with himself He is fighting his base instincts and desires with the civilization he had been raised
Comparative Essay Guilt and Remorse There are many people today who often confuse and misuse the concepts of guilt and remorse The feeling of guilt is the state a person is in when they have done something wrong and are fully aware that what they have committed is wrong or unacceptable An example of someone who would be subjected to guilt would be a criminal in whom the criminal has committed a crime that he knows is wrong but has his guilt proven by evidence or is so overwhelmed by the guilt o
Tell Tale Heart and The Black Cat The two short stories that I have chosen by Edgar Allan Poe are The Tell Tale Heart and The Black Cat These two stories in particular have many things in common as far as technique goes but they do have some significant differences between the two In this paper I will try to compare and contrast these two short stories and hopefully bring something to the readers attention that wasnt there at first One of the main differences in these two short stories is the w
The book Of Mice and Men from John Steinbeck has a corresponding movie made in 1992 The story is se tin the 1930s about the friendship between the two main characters Lenny and George Producer Director Gary Sinise and Screenwriter Horton Foote keep very close in to the plot in the movie which has only some minor changes in it The book has similarities to a screen play as there are manly only four different scenes which are the Salinas River the bunkhouse Crooks room and the barn Therefore the t
People should be free to themselves even if theyre different Acceptance is a big factor in our life today You need to give people a chance for them to become more open No giving them a chance will hurt them and they would be harmed for the rest of theyre life Giving them a chance means respecting them My own life experience at my school Ive seen a lot of teenagers not accepting people that want to be friends with you just because they are different they will just ignore the people and walk away