Tragic Events

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The paper examines the societal, governmental and economic factors that are related to the events of 9-11 and relates the issue of disaster that created human tragedy within the literature analyzed in this study. The paper explains how by presenting two passages from each of these novels, one can realize the similarities of the Great Depression and Civil Rights Era issues that create and influence the similar objects of a catastrophe that transformed American society in the present as well as in past historical perspectives.

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"This literary study will examine the tragic events of 9/11 and the similar aspects of the human aspects of tragedy in "The Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison and "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. By realizing the tragic aspects of the Stock Market Crash of 1929 in Fitzgerald's novel, one can also reveal the dynamics of racism that tragically take center stage in "The Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison. "The Great Gatsby" is a novel based on life in the 1930's and the cultural elements of the Great Depression had become the central theme of the callousness of the rich and their lack of care for the classes that lived in poverty beneath them."

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