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.