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In A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge is greedy and miserly, only deriving happiness from the expansion of his own wealth with little regard for much else. It is ultimately by realizing the error of his ways thanks to an encounter with the spirits that he casts off his hyper-materialist perception of life and grows as a person.

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The connection to how the father was willing to search the entire ocean to find his son. The growth with family.

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The people in WALL-E did a number on the Earth and then just decided to dip and live in space with the crew making bank off of the whole world because they essentially own the world now. Then they all end up obese and lost their home.

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In an episode of Dickinson, Sue, one of the main characters, grows up with no money and works for all she has. When all of her family dies she marries Emily Dickinson’s brother. After marrying she starts to fill her life with riches and everything she has ever chased. But as time goes on she realizes that these material things cannot give her joy and fulfillment.

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In A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche is a very materialistic person and only cares about how she looks and is only concerned with her beauty to hide all of her flaws by keeping up a lie. Eventually Blanche was caught up in all of her flaws and lost in the end.

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There's a few episodes where one of the characters makes a deal with the devil and ends up paying for their greed. It's a play on the classic cultural motif.

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In Ecclesiastes 6 it talks about how people aren't satisficed by wealth and material things, which is similar to the theme of this poem.

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One of the largest megacorporation of the early 20th century, John Rockefeller used malicious business practices and pure wealth manipulation in order to create a monopoly on the oil market, and gain an unbelievable level of wealth.

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In the an episode of Family Guy, the family won the lottery and they spent all their winnings on a bunch of stupid things that had no long-lasting value. They ended up right back where they started, living in the same house  despite having had tons of money less than a week prior. They squandered their fortune on a bunch of meaningless things that wouldn't last.

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Helmer was greedy for a perfect societal-accepted family, relationship and job but while trying to achieve those things he lost Nora

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this movie is with eddie murphy and has to do with a scheme between these brothers who try to make money by switching the lives of two different men.

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Fitzgerald criticizes wealth and debates wether or not the lengths that people go to in order to gain wealth is worth the toll that greed has on a person. This relates to the poem because the poem also criticizes wealth and the negative characteristics of greedy people. Both Fitzgerald and Emily Dickinson view the desire for wealth, negatively.

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As we've read, Gatsby's whole life was centered around proving himself to be part of the elite old money. He strived to show off his wealth and lavish life to show how he was superior and deserved to be treated as such. However, this greed led to his inevitable downfall that we all have learned from.

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The guy made sweaters and killed off the entire forest in order to make a quick buck.

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He was greedy for $ and clout, however, was distant from anybody and anything, come Christmas time and similar to Dickinson, he came to his family as he was met by the spirits

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In Dickinsons poem, one of the most important Literary Devices is allusion, which she uses to help us take on a negative view of materialism. 

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In Dickinsons poem, one of the most important Literary Devices is allusion, which she uses to help us take on a negative view of materialism. 

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Write down an example of a literary text, movie, news story, reference (pretty much anything) that you think ties into the theme of the downsides of being materialistic. Then, write a sentence about how it connects to Dickinson's poem and how they are similar or different.