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    Between the movie and book of The Great Gatsby there are similarities and differences. The setting in the book is different than the movie. The setting is plotted differently. Also‚ there are some characters that are different. The parties are different as well. They go in a different order in the movie than the book. In the book the setting said it was in West Egg “the less fashionable” (Fitzgerald 5). Also the author mentioned it happened at “wilson’s garage” (Fitzgerald 25). In the movie‚ the setting

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    bringing it to life. Frankenstein abandons the monster forcing the monster over the edge where he then kills everyone Frankenstein loves. In Frankenstein‚ Mary Shelley uses literary devices such as similes‚ rhetorical questions‚ and imagery to convey meaning to her readers. To begin‚ Shelley uses similes throughout the book to connect more with readers. One such example is “men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each others blood”(Shelley 63). In this small section of a larger quote‚ Elizabeth

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    Mental and physical health: a contrast or a simile The mind and the body are actually a single system. In western cultures‚ the mind is somewhere in the head and that everything else is body. This dualism can be traced back to Descartes and his writings. This dualism can even be seen in the way health insurance is treated in the United States. Most insurance policies provide much better coverage for "physical" disorders than they do for "mental" disorders. No such dualism ever existed in eastern

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    Great Gatsby the book contrast against the book in many different ways. Nothing in the movie that was changed from the book‚ changed the overall impact or the meaning of the story. At the beginning of the movie there is not very many differences to the book but near the middle to the end it starts to change a little more. The First contrast would have to be at the beginning of both the movie and book‚ were Tom was described in the book as a very muscular man‚ thats fit and doing all these sports

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    point of view are what help give this story its intensity. Diction is the choice or use of words. It plays a major role in making this story so intense. All through out the Tell Tale Heart Poe used metaphors and similes which really help a reader to visualize what is being read. A good example of a simile from this short story was quite easy to find. Close attention to the wording in this quote describe how well the reader can imagine the exact scene Poe has created. “When I had waited a long time

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    The GREAT Gastby by F. Scott Fitzgerald pages 172. I choose to read this book because I’ve heard a lot of great things about the author F. Scott Fitzgerald. His style of writing seems to intrigue and catch the audience attention. I’ve seen the movie that was created of this story but I want to read the book to see how it all started. What parts were left off in the movie that maybe I didn’t know. What sense was highlighted the most from the book and interoperated In the movie. I want to compare the

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    get more addicted to cigarettes and changes his whole life s he can adjust himself to make the accessibility of cigarettes easier. Many people who become addicted to cigarettes change their life styles to accommodate their needs. By incorporating‚ similes‚ personification and satire; Sedaris hyperbolizes the idea of being addicted to cigarettes changes the way someone runs their life. Sedaris recalls memories of his addiction to cigarettes and how it all began. He uses many rhetorical elements to

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    After watching the film‚ The Great Gatsby (2013)‚ I feel like as if the movie and film correlates together well‚ especially when it comes to the characters. Each of the characters from the film were well-played actors—I felt like none of them were miscasts—and I wouldn’t change a thing about it if I was the director of the film. This film does a fantastic job with the visuals from the exciting parties Jay Gatsby threw at his mansion to the shocking emotional moment in which he was also killed by

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    Relying on Different Instincts In the book Night‚ Elie Wiesel utilizes similes and metaphors to prove that as people despite facing the most cruel dehumanization will continue to struggle to survive by relying on animalistic and mechanical instincts within themselves.. For example‚ as Holocaust prisoners were being shepherded from one camp to another in the Death March during the winter‚ Elie recounts “I was putting one foot in front of the other‚ like a machine. I was dragging this emancipated

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    There were a handful of differences that are worth noting however. Many of them are scenes left out of the movie that occurred in the book. A few times something is switched around. I had a list of differences from the film that spanned 3 pages but I selected a few of the main ones. A difference that seems inconsequential but it really is quite important is that in the movie there is no “owl man”. In the book Nick runs into the owl man in Gatsby’s library going through his books amazed

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