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Dual Identity
-Bringing Down the House-The Hairy Ape-Black Like Me
Nick Sargent
Ben Mezrich
• Author of Bringing Down the House
• Harvard graduate • Nonfiction author • Questionable details
Main Characters
• Kevin Lewis
• Fisher and Martinez• Mickey Rosa • Felicia
Plot
• MIT Life• Card Counting• Thanksgiving Dinner• Private Detective• Purple Chip
Themes
• Dual Identity
• Beating the system• Impersonation• Teamwork• Stereotypes
Eugene O’Neill
• Author of The Hairy Ape
• Born to acting parents• Worked at sea• Joined the Provincetown Players• Died 1953
"I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room, and God damn it, died in a hotel room."[
Main Characters
• Yank
• Mildred Douglass• Long
Plot
• Crew Quarters• Ship Stokehole• Downtown Street• IWW Office• Gorilla Cage
Themes
• Dual Identity
• Finding a Place• Regression by Industrialization • Frustration of Class
John Griffin
• Author of Black Like Me
• Served in WWII• Blinded in an Accident• Traveled to the South• Moved to Mexico
Main Characters
• John Griffin
• Sterling Williams• Christophe
Plot
• Louisiana • Mississippi• Alabama• Georgia
• Texas
Themes
• Dual Identity
• Identity • Racism• Poverty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkiVHIhR58U
Dual Identity
• Yank: fireman / lost worker
• Kevin: MIT grad. / nightlife star
• Griffin: Black / white
Works Cited• Fagin, N. B. "Eugene O'Neill." The Antioch Review 14.1 (1954): 14-26. JSTOR. Web. 7 Feb.
2012. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/4609686>. This was an article used to learn about the author of The Hairy Ape and the book itself.
• Galens, David. "The Hairy Ape." Drama for Students: Volume 4. Vol. 4. Detroit: Gale, 1998. 98-117. Print. This was an article used to learn about the author of The Hairy Ape and the book itself.
• "Google Advanced Image Search." Google Advanced Image Search. Web. 21 May 2012. <http://images.google.com/advanced_image_search?hl=en>. All pictures in this presentation come from this source.
• Griffin, John H. Black Like Me. Gardners, 2011. Print. This is the text I read for the project.
• Lauter, Paul, and Richard Yarborough. "Eugene O'Neill 1888-1935." The Heath Anthology of American Literature: Concise Edition. Concise ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. 1858-889. Print. This was the text that I read for the project.
• Mezrich, Ben. Bringing down the House: The inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions. New York: Free, 2002. Print. This was the text that I read for the project.