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Chapter 3: Gatsby's smile. He had one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced, or seemed to face, the whole external world for an instant and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted ...
- Class
Sophisticated—God, I’m sophisticated! When Daisy and Nick...
- Love and Marriage
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- The American Dream
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- Chapter 1
Well, she was less than an hour old and Tom was God knows...
- Tom Buchanan
Nick continues to describe Tom in Chapter 1, this time...
- Jay Gatsby
In Chapter 8 Nick speculates about Gatsby’s last moments of...
- The Green Light
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- Class
Analysis. Immaculée thinks of her birthplace as “paradise.”. Rwanda’s natural landscape and climate are so beautiful that German colonizers called it “the land of eternal spring.”. As a child, Immaculée is surrounded by love and doesn’t know that racism or prejudice exist. She doesn’t hear the words Tutsi or Hutu until starting ...
Summary. The poet invokes a muse to aid him in telling the story of the rage of Achilles, the greatest Greek hero to fight in the Trojan War. The narrative begins nine years after the start of the war, as the Achaeans sack a Trojan-allied town and capture two beautiful maidens, Chryseis and Briseis. Agamemnon, commander-in-chief of the Achaean ...
Summary. Analysis. In Greek mythology the universe created the gods, rather than the other way around. Heaven and Earth existed first as vague entities, and their children were the Titans. The children of the Titans were the Olympians, the principal Greek gods. The Titans, or Elder Gods, ruled the universe until the gods overthrew them.
The Eternal Spring Summary and Analysis. Immaculee was born into a loving family. Her parents, Leonard and Rose, gifted her with a name meaning 'shining and beautiful in body and soul'. Her name would prove to be true as she grew through childhood and into adulthood. Immaculee was one of four siblings and the only daughter in the family.
John 1 invites us into the profound mystery of the Incarnation—God becoming man in Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh. It beckons us to recognize Jesus as the eternal Word through whom all things were created, the Light that shines in the darkness, and the Lamb of God who takes away sin. This chapter serves as a reminder of Jesus’ divine ...
Paradise Lost: Book 1. LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in , which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. Milton introduces his subject: “man’s first disobedience” against God and its sorrowful consequences. In the first line Milton refers to the consequences as the “fruit” of disobedience, punning on the ...
