Analysis Of Great Expectations

Nick’s relationship to Gatsby is an example of irony because Nick tells the story about Gatsby, but he doesn’t like him. In Chapters 1 and 2 Nick states “Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, … represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn.” 2. In chapters 7 and 8, Tom learns about the affair between Daisy and Gatsby. Nick points out the irony of losing both women in his

Till Death Do Us Part Young love torn away piece by piece, yet not restored. Romeo showed multiple signs of depression and many of them went unnoticed, or overlooked. In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Romeo, a young teen becomes depressed, when the women he loves does not love him back. He decides to go to a party hosted by his family 's revival. He hopes to see Rosaline, the women he is in love with.

In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie’s faults made her dependent emotionally towards men, but independent when finding her own happy ending throughout the book. From The Odyssey, Calypso desperately tried to find love and make Odysseus stay, but her flaws of attachment and having a higher level of authority over Odysseus in their relationship kept her from achieving real love with someone. Although Janie and Calypso are opposites when it comes to love, they do have similarities. Their relationships always ended the same way, with Janie leaving her husbands and Calypso being deserted by her lovers. They both tried to to find love, with some difficulties for each women individually.

I think this books is going to be really funny and interesting. 10/8/15; I just finished the ⅓ of the book. The story starts out with the main character Colin Singleton who is fearing he will not grow to become an adult . After being dumped by his girlfriend, Katherine XIX, Colin is looking for his “missing piece,” longing to feel whole, and longing to matter. In these relationships, Colin remembers only the Katherine dumping him.

What I didn’t really like about it, was the lack of development for their relationship. To me, it seemed that she hated his guts, then boom! He says he is able to break her mother’s curse which makes her already attracted to him. I believe the author could’ve had the two slowly open up to each other, and maybe include a few awkward moments that shows the development of their love for each other. Despite the minor setback, I could not contain my excitement and muffled my squeals with a pillow.

Janie learned the hard way that you actually have to love someone for your marriage to go anywhere and last long. Her first run through was with Logan. Janie only married him because of her grandma and for “protection”. We know this because Nanny tells Janie “‘Tain’t Logan Killicks Ah wants you to have, baby, it’s protection.”(Hurston 15) That was her first mistake, she married someone she didn’t even love and look how long that marriage last. Her second marriage was a little bit better at first but she began to slowly realize that she didn’t love Joe either.

It is these expectations that cause a change in his character and over shadows his actions though the book. Pip learns to use people in order to realise these great expectations. The first person to fall victim to his selfishness is Biddy. In order to become worthy of Estella Pip uses Biddy “towards making himself uncommon” by “getting out of Biddy everything she knew” (Dickens 107). Ironically, Pip goes to a person as common as he in an attempt to become less common in hope to impress the snobby Estella.

These two stories have different tones in the beginning but by the end they are both dark and sad. In the beginning of the story of “Rocking-Horse Winner”, the reader could tell the tone by the mother not being in a happy joyful mood about their living situation. Unlike the story, “The Lottery” where the audience would have thought that the story would stay happy, because of how the author describes the beginning of the story. The tone in “The Rocking-Horse Winner” did correspond with the action occurring in the story because the feeling that the mother gives off as well as the house makes the son want to be lucky for his mother so she would not be that way anymore. This forces him to make sure he rocks on his little rocking horse until he is sure of the winner in the next horse race to win money until that anxiety kills him (Lawrence, 1933, p. 175).

Armand never knew Desiree’s origin, therefore when the conflict arose he instantly blamed it all on Desiree. He hardly knew Desiree, yet he married her anyway and had a son. Another literary device that is used in “Desiree’s Baby” is situational and dramatic irony. For example, like Jeniffer Smith states in Short Stories for Students that “ Several critics of “Desiree’s Baby” have charged that the ending is a trick ending, or an O. Henry ending, so-named after the short story writer famous for the reversals that came at the end of his stories”(Smith 73). Chopin is well known for using these endings in her stories.

But, Lilly had seen the way he had treated some of the other kids in the school and she did not like it. No matter how much he spent on her she did not want to date him. The final result of the situation was that she rejected his offer to be his girlfriend in the end. The use of the literary device of a flashback helped the story solve questions about Mr. Gatsby and other characters and their relationship. The flashback in the book The Great Gatsby served the purpose of showing the history of Gatsby, Daisy, and Mr. Gatsby.