English Final

The Awakening by Kate Chopin (1899)

A story that consists of an unhappy woman in her marriage that shows themes of oppression, feminism, freedom, and gender identity

birds (awakening)

symbolizes the lives women live and how some feel trapped in their marriages

Water (The Awakening)

symbolizes the individuality that Edna feels and her freedom throughout the story

Edna throwing her wedding band

symbolizes her bond breaking

Feminism in the Awakening

Edna shows breaking numerous societal rules for women and chooses to be "free" and does what she wants which opposes the traditional "housewife" who cares for her kids

Great Gadsby

A story that follows Nick Caraway who discovers his mysterious neighbor who throws large parties who is trying to find love with this one specific girl who is in a band marriage situation

Grey in Great Gatsby

symbolizes thrown away morals and "garbage". Also represents the forgotten

green in the great Gatsby

symbolizes money but also symbolizes desire and jealousy

White in Great Gatsby

Innocence, life, neutrality

Blue in the Great Gatsby

Labor and Loneliness

Gold in the Great Gatsby

wealth, compassion

Edna Pontellier

The twenty-eight-year-old wife of a New Orleans businessman, who grew up in Kentucky. She suddenly finds herself dissatisfied with her marriage and the limited, conservative lifestyle that it allows. She emerges from her semi-conscious state of devoted wife and mother to a state of total awareness, in which she discovers her own identity and acts on her desires for emotional and sexual satisfaction. She is fond of music and drawing/painting. She lives on Esplanade Street with her husband, until her move to the pigeon-house.

Leonce Pontellier

Wealthy husband of Edna and a successful businessman

Mademoiselle Reisz

A talented pianist and somewhat of a recluse, she represents independence and freedom and serves as a sort of muse for Edna.

Adele Ratignolle

Edna's friend, the epitome of perfect womanhood from this era. Mother of five. Wife to Alphonse Ratignolle. Warns Robert to stay away from Edna. Final wishes to Edna are to think of her children.

Robert Lebrun

Charismatic young man who falls in love with Edna during her summer on Grand Isle; has a history of maintaining mock romances with unattainable women.

Alcee Arobin

Who was the charming man, "the player", in New Orleans

Doctor Mandelet

Léonce and Edna's family physician; an old friend of Léonce's. He is one of the few characters who seems to come close to understanding Edna.

colonel (awakening)

The Colonel, a former Confederate officer in the Civil War, is Edna's father. He is a strict Protestant and believes that husbands should manage their wives with authority and coercion. While Edna's relationship with her father is not affectionate, she is surprised by how well she gets along with her father when they are together.

Victor Lebrun

Robert's younger brother who spends his time chasing women

Nick Carroway

Narrator of The Great Gatsby

Jay Gatsby (James Gatz)

The protagonist of the novel; he lives in a mansion next to Nick's bungalow at west egg, he changed his name at age 17 when he first sees Dan Cody's yacht on Lake Superior. He makes a living in racketeering, bootlegging, and other mysterious occupations. He and Daisy were romantically involved before he left for the army. He states repeatedly that he was in the army in world war 1 and earned several medals of honor. He attended St. Olaf College briefly, worked as a janitor there, and says he attended Oxford University in England for 5 months in 1919. His las name incorporates the slang word for "gun"

Daisy Buchanan

Nick's cousin, and the woman Gatsby loves. As a young woman in Louisville before the war, Daisy was courted by a number of officers, including Gatsby. She fell in love with Gatsby and promised to wait for him. However, Daisy harbors a deep need to be loved, and when a wealthy, powerful young man named Tom Buchanan asked her to marry him, Daisy decided not to wait for Gatsby after all. Now a beautiful socialite, Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the fashionable East Egg district of Long Island. She is sardonic and somewhat cynical, and behaves superficially to mask her pain at her husband's constant infidelity.

Tom Buchanan

Daisy's immensely wealthy husband, once a member of Nick's social club at Yale. Powerfully built and hailing from a socially solid old family, Tom is an arrogant, hypocritical bully. His social attitudes are laced with racism and sexism, and he never even considers trying to live up to the moral standard he demands from those around him. He has no moral qualms about his own extramarital affair with Myrtle, but when he begins to suspect Daisy and Gatsby of having an affair, he becomes outraged and forces a confrontation.

Jordan Baker

Daisy's friend, a woman with whom Nick becomes romantically involved during the course of the novel. A competitive golfer, Jordan represents one of the "new women" of the 1920s—cynical, boyish, and self-centered. Jordan is beautiful, but also dishonest: she cheated in order to win her first golf tournament and continually bends the truth.

Myrtle Wilson

Tom's lover

George Wilson

Myrtle's husband, the lifeless, exhausted owner of a run-down auto shop at the edge of the valley of ashes. George loves and idealizes Myrtle, and is devastated by her affair with Tom. George is consumed with grief when Myrtle is killed. George is comparable to Gatsby in that both are dreamers and both are ruined by their unrequited love for women who love Tom.

Owl Eyes

The eccentric, bespectacled drunk whom Nick meets at the first party he attends at Gatsby's mansion. Nick finds Owl Eyes looking through Gatsby's library, astonished that the books are real.

Klipspringer

The shallow freeloader who seems almost to live at Gatsby's mansion, taking advantage of his host's money. As soon as Gatsby dies, Klipspringer disappears—he does not attend the funeral, but he does call Nick about a pair of tennis shoes that he left at Gatsby's mansion.

Meyer Wolfsheim

Gatsby's friend, a prominent figure in organized crime. Before the events of the novel take place, Wolfsheim helped Gatsby to make his fortune bootlegging illegal liquor. His continued acquaintance with Gatsby suggests that Gatsby is still involved in illegal business.

Dan Cody

Worldly mentor of Jay Gatsby. He took Gatsby under his wing when Gatsby was a young man and taught him much about living adventurously and pursuing dreams.

Valley of Ashes

George and Myrtle live here, Poor area, scene of death, located between east and west egg

East Egg

old money

West Egg

new money

Green light in the Great Gatsby

Represents Gatsby hope and dreams for the future

The Telephone in the Great Gatsby

Symbolizes trouble is near

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

It is about George Milton and Lennie

Small, two migrant ranch workers trying to find work in the Great Depression.As they move from one place to another in California searching for

any job they can get, they run into misfortune

and tragedy. • Lennie kills his boss's

wife and has to run, and George in turn kills Lennie out of "mercy". The book is required

reading in many schools, but is often targeted by censors for its racist and offensive language

Themes in Of Mice and Men

• friendship

• courage

• love

• differences

• temptations

• sacrifices

• empathy

• conflict

• relationships

• love and loss

• brothers

• dreams

• compromise

• life on the road

• American dream/ Great depression

Loneliness (Of Mice and Men)

sadness because one has no friends or company

American Dreams in Of Mice and Men

Finding Independence and freedom through success

Lennie

large childlike migrant worker, loves animals and soft things, wants to own rabbits

George

small and wiry, cares for Lennie, working to get money to buy a farm

Candy (Of Mice and Men)

• old ranch worker

• lost one of his hands in a farming accident

• emotionally destroyed

• wants to fit into George and Lennie's dream

Curley's wife

dresses in fancy red shoes, lonely, men think she is a tramp, temptation for the men, name never mentioned

Crooks

black stable-hand, crooked back from an accident, isolated because of race, wants to join the farm group

Curley

son of the ranch owner, wears high-heeled boots to distinguish himself from the ranch hands, champion prize-fighter, confrontational, mean-spirited, picks fights, possessive and jealous of his wife.

Slim (Of Mice and Men)

• mule driver

• person of advice

• wise

• comforts George after he killed Lennie

Carlson

ranch hand, complains about Candy's dog, owns a gun

The boss (of mice and men)

The stocky, well-dressed man in charge of the ranch, and Curley's father. He is never named and appears only once, but seems to be a fair-minded man. Candy happily reports that the boss once delivered a gallon of whiskey to the ranch-hands on Christmas Day.

Aunt Clara

Lennie's aunt, cared for him until her death, gave him mice to pet

Whit (Of Mice and Men)

ranch hand

Lennie's death

The death of Candy's dog foreshadows

American Dream in the Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby shows the tide turning east, as hordes flock to New York City seeking stock market fortunes. The Great Gatsby portrays this shift as a symbol of the American Dream's corruption. It's no longer a vision of building a life; it's just about getting rich.