Language Features of The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F.Scott Fitzgerald.Besides great popularity for its vivid depiction of the Ameri-can Dream,the novel also impresses the world with its skillfully used American English which is interwoven with the plots,the characters and the theme.The article is to explore how Fitzgerald analyzes the class system of the American society and what enables him to express this analysis through different types of A-merican English.     

A Stylistic Analysis of The Catcher in the Rye

J. D. Salinger was a remarkable writer in contemporary America. The Catcher in the Rye is his only novel, published in 1951. This novel attracts much attention from the critics and readers worldwide. It becomes one of the representative works of American literature of the 20 th century.Stylistics is a cross-discipline, which combines linguistics and literature together. Literary stylistics tends to focus on the analysis of literary text. According to Leech, there are four categories of stylistic features: lexical,grammatical, figures of speech and context. Since the purpose of stylistic analysis is to highlight the stylistic effects, different categories are used to find out how choice of words involves various types of meaning. Though, many literary reviews have contributed to the understanding of The Catcher in the Rye, most of them are concerned with its theme and the social value. Few scholars study the novel from the perspective of literary stylistics. Therefore, this thesis attempts to analyze the stylistic features of the novel’s language, disclosing how the protagonist’s language expresses meaning and thought.     

Study of Hassan’s Tragedy from Three Aspects in The Kite Runner

This paper analyzes a novel Kite Runner of Khaled Hosseini, published in 2003. It is the first novel of Hosseini which had been one of the bestselling in New York Times ranking list. It studies Hassan’s tragedy from three aspects, including the social environment in Afghanistan, the loyalty of Hassan, and the selfishness of Amir. Besides, it also discusses the friendship and betrayal between two boys-Hassan and Amir. Finally, the terrible life of Hassan in Afghanistan is under investigated.     

A Theme Analysis of The Call of the Wild

The Call of the Wild is one of the representative works of the American writer Jack London.It was published in 1903.Once appearance,it quickly achieved great success for its beautiful language and multiple levels of the theme.Based on the industrialised and capitalistic society in American history,this novel vividly reproduces the Gold Rush in Klondike.The main plot describes a process of how a domesticated dog degenerated into a wild one and went back to nature.The hero Buck is endowed with human senses and characteristics,for London tried to use animal characters to illustrate moral precepts and exhibit human behaviours.The thesis intends to demonstrate the fascination of this great novel on one hand and on the other hand, to disclose the cruelty of the social reality at that time,in hope of providing a profound comprehension for the readers.     

The Comments of The Lives of Animals

The paper aims to analyze the problems animal-protection faces and try to give advices about how to solve these problems. The first part will analyze that in the history of philosophical development, many philosophers make any excuse to place human above animals. The second part will make comments about how Costello makes the comparison about the poems of Rilke and Hughes about animals. The final part mainly talks about that the dilemma of the animal-rights movement and how to improve the situation.     

The Singer of the Elephant

The film Elephant is novel not only in its narrative style and abundant use of long shots, but also in its selection of two pieces of piano music. What the movie lenses hope to express is the same thing that the will of piano music does. Alex is not only a player of the two pieces of piano music but also a singer of the elephant.The thesis applies Schopenhauer’s will theory in music to analyze Alex’s song《For Elise》and《Moonlight Sonata》and to anatomize his mental activity and brewing of thought. By using the power of piano music this thesis aims at digging out how he becomes the singer of the elephant.     

An Analysis of Buck in the Call of the Wild:Mirror of Jack London

The Call of the Wild is Jack London’s first bestseller and is one of the most popular novels during the early twentiethcentury in America. It is considered as a model of American literature. This novel depicts how Buck turns from a dog to a leading wolf that returns to the nature. Buck reflects not only the figure of the author but also his aspirations and pursuits. When comparing Buck with the author, it can be said that to a large extent Buck is the author himself-the combination of reality and ideal.     

On the Awakening of Edna

The Awakening is a remarkable work of feminism written by Kate Chopin. The novel mainly depicts how Edna comes to her awakening and develops into a new woman with a heartfelt concern for freedom, equality and independence. The novel had significant influence on the formation of women's literature and contributed a lot to the achievements of feminist movement.     

The Mississippi River in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,The Mississippi River is not just to provide a general background,but to constitute the center image of the novel.It gives"form"to the whole novel,all the adventures in the book begins with the river and ends with the river.This paper talks about the important river.It is a symbol of freedom and maternity,and it has deep meaning of life and regeneration,purification and sublimation.The symbols and senses of this river deepen the theme of the novel,and prop up its broad and profound metaphorical world.     

The Function of Death in Jane Eyre

The essay is on the novel of Jane Eyre written by Charlotte Bronte.Jane was an orphan,finally she developed into an intellectual,confident and independent woman.She married her true love and realized her dream at last.During the period of her growth,many deaths appeared in Jane’s life.These deaths play an important part in the novel.This essay will discuss the function of death in the novel.The author’s view of death was expressed through Jane’s life,love and her character.Through the arguments in the novel,we can draw a conclusion:death is not fearful.Love is eternal.We should learn how to love-love everything around us and cherish everything that you own.     

Research on Product Data Management Based on Multi—agent System

PDM（product data management)is one kind of techniques based on software and database,which integrates information and process related to products.But it is not enough to perform the complication of PDM in enterprises.Then the mechanism to harmonize all kinds of information and process in needed.The paper introduces a novel approach to implement the intelligent monitor of PDM based on MAS(multi-0agent system).It carries out the management of information and process by MC( monitor Center).The paper first puts forward the architecture of the whole system,then defines the structure of MC and its interoperation mode.     

Different Cultures and Different Fates—On Cultural Meanings of “Bluest Eye” in Morrison’sThe Bluest Eye

The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison’s first novel.After its publication,it receives many criticisms.This article aims to ana lyze Pecola and Claudia’s understandings about black culture,then to clarify that different interpretations of the very name"the bluest eye"lead to different fates.With different visions of the black heritage,Pecola and Claudia have different perception of the world and thus have widely divergent outcomes in the painful circumstances.     

Thematic Structure and the Realization of the Discourse Function of The Little Prince

In the 1940s, The Little Prince, a French writer Antoine De Saint-Exupery, was translated into more than 100 languages since its publication, deeply loved by children and even adults. Although The Little Prince uses the most common and simple words for the children, the author gives them a deeper meaning behind the simple words. This makes the fairy tale in the plain text under a thick poetic and symbolic meaning. In this paper, the author tries to study The Little Prince with the theory of the?matic structure, which provides a new perspective for the analysis of children's literature. It aims to examine how these"simple theme","multiple theme"and"clausal theme"promoting the development of novel discourse coherence and constructing a co?herent discourse, in order to help readers better understand the novel better grasp the characteristics of the characters.     

Women’s Tragedy:A Feminist Reading of Sons and Lovers

The novel Sons and Lovers, which is Lawrence’s best acclaimed work, is of autobiographic air. It is called the best representation of Sigmund Freud’s "Oedipus Complex"theory by critics, though Lawrence denied having read Freud before writing the novel. However, it can shed new light on the novel when read in a different point of view. Paul’s road to become a real man can not be separated from his mother, Miriam and Clara, who is Paul’s first and second loves respectively. This article will analyze the novel in feminist perspective and concentrate on the three women’s sacrifice to Paul’s growth in a man-centered society, in hope of better understanding the intension of the novel.     

Application of Authenticity Theory on the Design of Listening Tests

The methods for designing listening comprehension tests appeared in recent years will be also reviewed.For each kind of testing method,no matter what its scale and how its importance,can influence teaching and learning in varied range.Therefore,to discuss how to use the principle of authenticity to improve and ensure the reliability and validity of test can create a positive effect on teaching and learning.     

Critical Discourse Analysis： A Theoretical Framework for Analyzing Mathematics Teaching in Multilingual Classrooms？

The purpose of this article is to develop a framework that can be used to describe and explain how mathematics teachers construct a multilingual classroom and the discourse practices being produced in a mathematics classroom. It conceptualizes the discourse practices used by mathematics teacher educators as they prepare student teachers to teach mathematics. The framework developed here is shaped by Critical Discourse Analysis （CDA） drawn from Fairclough. This provides the theoretical and conceptual tools to examine the discourse practices of mathematics teacher educators and how the）＇ make available these discourse practices for student teachers to draw on. In broad terms, this article examines the discourse practices of the mathematics teacher educators and how they support the student teachers develop discourse practices relevant for teaching and learning school mathematics in multilingual classrooms. This article is broken down into several sections. The first section discusses what it means for student teachers to develop discourse practices for mathematics teaching. The second section provides an introduction to CDA, followed by its origins, key terms, and elements of Fairclough＇s CDA. Thereafter, the author outlines the strategies involved in doing CDA. The last section discusses why CDA is relevant to the mathematics classroom.     

On the Theme of Coexistence of Opposites in The Left Hand of Darkness

As one of the best-known literary works of the American novelist Ursula K.Le Guin,The Left Hand of Darkness is not only successful in its splendid plots and beautiful language but also in the important function of its readers in reading.In the thesis,one of its themes,coexistence of opposites,is analyzed in the reader response perspective in order to reveal Le Guin’s reader-consciousness.The theme exists on a higher level in the novel and expresses Le Guin’s attitude towards life and universe.Le Guin unified her own philosophy in the novel and tried to call for the reader’s resonance.     

The Alienated Plot in The End of the Road

The End of the Road is John Barth’s second novel, and it is the first novel that brought abortion to the focus of public attention, which proves to be a huge success. This paper intends to study the alienation in The End of the Road based on the alienation as a literary style and the alienation embodied in the literary context. Through the analysis of the alienated plot, the paper aims to emphasize the internal cause for the end of the different character’s road.     

The Alienated Plot in The End of the Road

The End of the Road is John Barth’s second novel, and it is the first novel that brought abortion to the focus of public attention, which proves to be a huge success. This paper intends to study the al...