can_anyone_help_me_with_an_essay AStudentWhoNeedsHelp I hate to resort to this...but if anyone on the net would help me with this I'd think it would be you Blatherskytes. What I intend to do is compare Frank from Angela's Ashes (by Frank McCourt) with Roark from The Fountainhead (by Ayn Rand) If you have any ideas (or sentences, or paragraphs, or pages....)(ok maybe I'm being a bit too hopeful) please share them! or if you have a better topic for me to choose involving these two books. 050911 ... somebodywhocares hmmm... The fountainHead by Aynd Rand.... Cant say Ive read it... lo siento 050911 ... superleni haven't read them, but, try listing characters' similarities and differences in terms of personality traits, physical characteristics, situations encountered, interactions and relationships with other characters, way of speaking, beliefs, changes throughout story, influences on them & their environments, major events. use a mind map for the above for each character and note down whatever you can about each, then compare. at first jot down whatever comes to mind, then edit it later for what is most valuable for your essay. look at the themes of the novels and how they the characters effect them, look at the narrative method and the characters' positions within it. What aspects of the way the story is told effect the reader how? pick the most poigniant quote each character says. what do they say about each? how do they compare? how would the characters interact if they met? how does the author achieve their goals for the story and character, through the characters? i feel this might be the point of the essay. Hope some of that was useful :) 050911 ... AStudentWhoNeedsHelp tahnks a lit man...that really was useful. (I stayed Home today to work on it) 050912 ... AStudent Who Needs Help Damn...I'm doing the essay in reverse...I still cant think of a nice opener. 050912 ... z one book extols the virtues of radical capitalism and celebrates an extreme meritocracy while the other inhabits the bitterness of the daily lives of the underclass that has been created by it. you might contrast the fictional 2d uber mensch of the fountainhead with the deprivations and indignities of a real person's memoir. it is an odd thing to try, fiction versus non. also, check out the below npr all things considered segment. you would do well to cite sources very carefully. good luck. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1608159 050912 ... AStrugglingStudent Thanks a lot man. I can get some excellent ideas form that sentence alone. Also, thanks for the reminder of how easy it is for someone to spot plagerism. I'll try to refine these ideas so that they are my own. 050912 ... z you are welcome. again, good luck. 050912 ... AStrugglingStudent shoot...i,m lookin right now...but if anyone has an example of Frank's dependency on his mother or Catholicism (from Angela's Ashes), preferably later in his life, it would be appreciated. The same can go for Finding an example of Roarks indepence (from THe Fountainhead) (though this should be a bit easier to do...a little help couldn't hurt.) 050912 ... Thats how far I am...Ill make it somehow Frank McCourt’s Novel Angela’s Ashes and Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead stand on opposite ends of the literary spectrum. Where as The Fountainhead extols the virtues of radical capitalism and celebrates an extreme meritocracy Angela’s Ashes inhabits the bitterness of the daily lives of the underclass that has been created by it. These themes are made most evident through the main Characters of each novel, Howard Roark from The Fountainhead and Frank McCourt from Angela’s Ashes. Most of mankind can identify with either one of these characters, there are few in-betweens. From one viewpoint, the two kinds of people that these man represent are those who follow and those who lead, Frank from Angela’s Ashes being the follower, and Mr. Roark from the Fountainhead, being the leader. Mr. Roark does not hesitate to do what he wants to. He is an architect who lives solely for his art. He does not let anyone dictate his actions. Take for instance the climax of the novel, when his building plans have been cleverly altered by the sly Mr. Toohey. Roark shows no hesitation in his decision to bomb his defiled building. Not even the consequence of going to jail stopped him. He had made up his mind, and nothing could change it. Frank from Angela’s Ashes shows the opposite mindset. He constantly looks back on his mother and Catholicism to re-evaluate his actions. Take for example, 050912 ... student damn...im already not feelin the first paragraph. gotta switch that up. 050912 ... zeke angela's ashes is not a novel. it is a memoir, and therefore non-fiction. also, you should paraphrase me or you will have to footnote this site. (i wonder if that would be a first.) other than those comments it looks like you have caught your stride. again, good luck. 050912 ... Student id love to make a footnote to this site, probably would be a first! But I think I'll paraphrase it instead. 050912 ... The Heretic BLATHER_POLUTION 050912 ... That is... BLATHER_POLLUTION 050912 ... Student btw, if i may ask zeke, how does capitalism cause Frank's situation in Angela's Ashes? 050912 ... Student alrite... here we go... i still want to add how the capitalism that the fountainhead praises causes Frank and his family trouble --------------------------------------- Frank McCourt’s Memoir Angela’s Ashes and Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead stand on opposite ends of the literary spectrum. Where as The Fountainhead praises radical capitalism, Angela’s Ashes makes a point to show the tragedies that it can cause. These themes are made most evident through the main Characters of each novel, Howard Roark from The Fountainhead and Frank McCourt from Angela’s Ashes. Most of mankind can identify with either one of these characters, there are few in-betweens. From one viewpoint, the two kinds of people that these men represent are those who follow and those who lead, Frank being the follower, and Mr. Roark being the leader. Mr. Roark does not hesitate to do what he wants to. He is an architect who lives solely for his art. He does not let anyone dictate his actions. Take for instance the climax of the novel, when his building plans have been cleverly altered by the sly Mr. Toohey. Roark shows no hesitation in his decision to bomb his defiled building. Not even the consequence of going to jail stopped him. He had made up his mind, and nothing could change it. Frank shows the opposite mindset. He constantly looks back on his mother and Catholicism to re-evaluate his actions. Take for example, his affair with the woman he delivers letters to. Not soon after, he feels tremendous regret and confesses to a priest. Roark is also different from Frank in the sense that he has found his purpose. Designing architecture is the sole reason he exists. Frank has no real purpose. His goal is simply to survive the harsh realities of a poverty-stricken household, while trying to keep his head up high. Instead of finding a real reason to make himself better, he just “drifts” through life. Ultimately, Frank and Roark’s character’s are defined by the way they present themselves to society. Frank tries to stay alive by following the lifestyle that society has forced him in, and Roark commits social and financial suicide by resisting society. 050912 ... z poverty is an assumed byproduct of free market systems which cannot survive less than six percent unemployment. high unemployment drives down the cost of labor. 050912 ... superleni glad to be of help. let us know how your essay went. 050916 what's it to you? who go blather from