The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess.
" So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
These words conclude the novel and find Nick returning to the theme of the significance of the past to dreams of the future, here represented by the green light.
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※ spring break
It is also known by names such as Easter vacation, Easter Holiday, March break, spring vacation, Mid-Term Break, study week, reading week, reading period, or Easter week, depending on regional conventions.
※Easter also called Pasch is a festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial after his crucifixion
※ crucifixion is a form of slow and painful execution in which the victim is tied or nailed to a large wooden cross and left to hang until dead.
※ calvary was, according to the Gospels, a site immediately outside Jerusalem's walls where Jesus was crucified.
※resurrection is the concept of a living being coming back to life after death. The soul is believed by some to be the divine and immortal part of the human being, and some believe it is the actual vehicle by which people are resurrected.
※ Torah is the central concept in the religious Judaic tradition. It usually includes the rabbinic commentaries, the term Torah means instruction and offers a way of life for those who follow it
※Passover (Pesach) is an important, biblically derived Jewish festival.
The Jewish people celebrate Passover as a commemoration of their liberation by God from slavery in Egypt and their freedom as a nation under the leadership of Moses
※ diaspora is a scattered population with a common origin in a smaller geographic area. Diaspora has come to refer particularly to historical mass dispersions of an involuntary nature
※ The Exodus is the founding myth of Israel; its message is that the Israelites were delivered from slavery by Yahweh and therefore belong to him through the Mosaic covenant
※Equinox
An equinox occurs twice a year, around 20 March and 22 September. The word equinox comes from this definition, derived from the Latin aequus (equal) and nox (night).
Narrative point of view or narrative perspective describes the position of the narrator (the character of the storyteller) in relation to the story being told.
first-person narration second-person narration third-person narration
The Sun Also Rises is a 1926 novel written by American author Ernest Hemingway about a group of American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights.
His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations.
Munro's work has been described as having revolutionized the architecture of short stories, especially in its tendency to move forward and backward in time.
※puberty is the process of physical changes through which a child's body matures into an adult body capable of sexual reproduction to enable fertilization.
It is most closely associated with Irish communities.
※RIP rest in pease
AKA as known as
● sphere-:球體
hemisphere peripheral
● hemi-: 半
hemisphere
●peri-:around
peripheral perimeter periscope
●-scope:尖的
periscope telescope
●tele-:遠的
telescope television telephone telecast
●-cast: 放送
broadcast telecast castaway
●bi-:2
bicycle binoculars
● equ-:平衡
equinox
○ negro
○hyperbole
○apron
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