Q: What is the valley of ashes in the great Gatsby
<em>Whoaaa! You're reading The Great Gatsby? That's literally the best book I've read in English class! You should definitely watch the movie when you have time because 1. It helped me out on my test and 2. It was so good!</em>
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<em>Alright, enough of the jibber jabbering... let me answer your question. </em>
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<em>The Valley of Ashes is a farm where ashes grow like wheat into hills, ridges, and even gardens. It's very desolate and empty, marking the intersection of the city with the suburbs. It's between the East and West Egg and is created by the dumping of industrial waste. It symbolizes the moral and social decay, as well as the carefree pursuit of wealth, since the rich do as they please and don't care about anything else besides their own pleasure.</em>
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<em>Hope this helped you out!</em>
<em>-Namira</em>
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Answer:
Me: I wish for more wishes.
genie: you can’t wish like that.
Me: I wish I could wish like that.
genie: that’s not how it works.
Me: I wish that was how it worked.
genie: what is wrong with you?
Me:
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Explanation:
There are lots of language conventions, or techniques, used in this short story. I've provided some examples below. I hope you find the examples helpful.
I was walking to the nearest phone booth to call the landlady, when I heard that kettle's horrific scream behind me.
In this first example, the author has used personification (giving human characteristics to an inanimate object) to describe the kettle as "screaming." Using personification like this is an effective way of conveying the narrator's feelings, as those feelings seem to be manifested in her perceptions of the environment around her. The demonstrative pronoun "that" in this particular quote also attributes a special significance to this kettle, implying that it has already been the cause of some upset. The kettle is personified throughout the story, often as "that evil kettle" or "the demonic kettle." In fact the repetition (another common language convention in literature) of the personification arguably.
Tense, eerie, scary, or suspenseful
