Short Summary Of The Great Gatsby

In the play A Raisin in the Sun, the man in the house; Walter makes a quick decision to give insurance money to the character Willy Harris so he could buy a liquor store. As a result, his decision causes Willy Harris to take the money which causes an apathetic mood in the story and creates a loss of hope in the family. This shows Walter to be spontaneous and quick to trust. Walter has always had dreams of owning a liquor store because he thought he would make profit. He’s very passionate about his fantasy, “...You see, this little liquor store we got in mind cost seventy-five thousand and we figured the initial investment on the place be ‘bout thirty thousand, see.”(79)

In the beginning of the book, we do not know what this green light means, but by the end of the story it goes to show it signifies Gatsby longing for Daisy’s love. Gatsby and Daisy used to date before he left for the war. Now that he is back and has found her, he wants her back. His arm being reached out represents his trying to reach his dreams. In Schneider’s essay on The Great Gatsby, he states: “…green, as the mixture of yellow and blue is once again tragic commingling of dream and reality.

(Pg. 100). While in Auschwitz II-Birkenau extermination camp he talk about how on his first day he engaged in levelling a large mound of earth. (Pg. 58) He later was evacuated Auschwitz due to it being in absolute turmoil and being transferred

I believe this writer has a clear controlling idea for the reason he started his article with “I had no plans to be an actor…I needed work and was leafing through…the Amsterdam News one day.” This statement is already trying to tell he is poor and he is willing to try anything. This then gives the readers questions, what actor did he become? Was he successful? and pulls the readers in.

Henry races to the kitchen to eat his breakfast before leaving for school. As he is on his way out the door he halts to peer out the window, he gazes at the cab stand across the street, he sees men in extravagant suits driving up in elaborate cars, he thinks to himself “as far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster”. This marks the beginning of Henry 's separation from the ordinary world, his call to adventure. He obtains a full-time job working at the Cab Stand. Henry 's parents receive a letter in the mail from the school stating that Henry has not attended in months.

Farid takes Amir to his old house and it is completely destroyed, Amir see’s his old window and remembers when he saw Ali and Hassan leave. “I had watched Hassan and Ali load their belongings into the trunk of my father’s car.” (Hosseini 275) He also goes to see the pomegranate tree where he and Hassan used to play. Farid insists that they don’t stay long and leave.

Walter Lee is a dreamer. He wants to be rich and devises plans to acquire wealth with his friends, particularly he wants to invest his father’s insurance money in a new liquor store. He spends talking about the liquor store until Mama buys the house which he change over the story. After Mama finally gives the money to Walter he started to change over the story. Walter is now fighting for civil rights because he told Mr.Lender that he doesn’t want him to talk anymore and want him to leave, “Is this what you came marching all the way over here to tell us?”(554).

During the meeting, Holden annoys Carl with his fixation on sex. After Luce leaves, Holden gets drunk, awkwardly flirts with several adults, and calls an icy Sally. Exhausted and out of money, Holden wanders over to Central Park to investigate the ducks, breaking Phoebe's record on the way. Nostalgically recalling his experience in elementary school and the unchanging dioramas in the Museum of Natural History that he enjoyed visiting as a child, Holden heads home to see Phoebe. He sneaks into his parents' apartment while they are out, and wakes up Phoebe – the only person with whom he seems to be able to communicate his true feelings.

Many things inspirited Pinero to write, but what inspired him the most was his life and life experiences and what was surrounding him. Miguel Pinero was born in Puerto Rico but later moved to New York at the age of four. His father was out of the picture so Pinero took it upon his self to support his family and started stealing to put food on the table. He was first arrested at the young age of eleven and sent to a Juvenile detention in the

(Fitzgerald 20-21). Gatsby also hosts extravagant parties almost every night in an attempt that Daisy will show up allowing him to finally reintroduce himself and restart their relationship where they ended it. Jordan realizes this after her conversation with Gatsby saying “I think he half expected her to wander into one of his parties, some night.” (Fitzgerald 79). Gatsby was never able to get over his losing Daisy after he went to war, so he used his friends to arrange a meeting for him, build his house near hers so he could always be close, as well as threw parties hoping that she would come by and be impressed by

Daisy and Tom invited Nick to dinner because Daisy is his cousin and Nick was also new to the town. 10. Why does the phone keep ringing at dinner? The phone keeps ringing at dinner because Jordan is calling him.

Trayvon Martin was a young 17-year-old African American male visiting the downtown area of Sandford Florida. Trayvon Martin’s father (Tracy Martin) was a truck driver who was dating a women by name of Sandy Green who lived in the gated housing complex The Retreat at Twin Lakes in Sandford where Trayvon’s life was cut short. Tracy would often times bring his sons up from Miami where they resided to stay at the housing complex in Sandford with him, his girlfriend and her son on the weekends. Trayvon Martin despite being a loving and supportive family member had recently been suspended from school due to having a bag with traces of marijuana in it. Tracy did not want his son to spend the next 10 days of his suspension hanging out with the wrong

And that it was by the famous actor, John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s theatre. It was now around 3:00 P.M. and only Samuel stood between Booth’s success or disastrous future. Dr. Mudd did not go back to his farm until three hours later, thinking about what to do with the actor’s staying at his farm. When he finally did get there he decided not to report the two assassins staying, but did order for them to leave. He agreed not to say anything, but Dr. Mudd was a confederate and so instead he gave Booth and Herold the names of two trustworthy and local confederate operatives, William Burtles and Captain Samuel

Shortly after 7:00 P.M. on Sunday, February 26, 2012, seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin talked on his cellphone with his friend, Rachel Jeantel. He carried a bag of Skittles and an Arizona watermelon juice cooler as he headed along a sidewalk in the Retreat at Twin Lakes townhouse community in Sanford. When George Zimmerman, driving his SUV to Target for an errand, looked out his window he spotted Martin and concluded, as he told police in a phone call, he was "a real suspicious guy. " What about Martin made him suspicious is not completely clear. What is known is that Martin is that he was unknown to Zimmerman, young, wore a hooded sweatshirt, walked slowly in the rain--and, most central to the debates that would later ensue, was black.

Book 3 of Rescue for Hire West starts with Tolliver Holiday having a drink in a bar before leaving to look at a lawn mower he saw on CraigsList. He is with his best friend Roy Smeet and runs into his friend Cade Miller. He leaves the bar goes to an old farmhouse to look at the lawn mower and is kidnapped and tortured. Cade who is owner of Rescue for Hire makes it his mission to find Tolliver and does. The kidnapper is no where to be found so Cade sends Tolliver to Rescue for Hire West in Nevada.