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    Analytical Outline of The Great Gatsby‚ Chapter 8 Statement of the Whole: Some people have their own single dream to pursue. Ⅰ. It was this night that he told me the strange story of his youth with Dan Cody – told it to me because “Jay Gatsby” had broken up like glass against Tom’s hard malice‚ and the long secret extravaganza was played out. A. Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware of the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves‚ of the freshness of many clothes‚ and of Daisy‚ gleaming

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    Spada English period 4 Movie and Book Comparison Tuesdays With Morrie is both a book and a movie. They are alike and different in so many different ways. The movie is never going to have as much detail as the book did‚ but they did a good job making the movie as close as possible to the book. The book covered a lot more aspects of the story than the movie did‚ and the book focused on the bigger more important parts. There were a lot of main points that the book and movie were alike. In both Morrie

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    how did it become such a cultural phenomenon? The original book‚ making of the movie‚ and the major impact of it during World War 2 all bring together this iconic film. It all started with L. Frank Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” published in Chicago in 1900. Baum based the book off his every day life‚ basing characters off of adventures he had growing up in North Dakota and jobs he had before and during being an author. When

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    0The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India The Great Gatsby: A Rich Man in India Reasoning for title – story is similar to Great Gatsby. He’s trying to interview the richest man in India‚ but his reputation is very contradicting – fraud or the truth? Tells his story about childhood and how his dad was considered a fraud‚ then he built up the school after his father stepped down. Originally he wanted to do things with cigars‚ then it went South and now he has a real cigar business

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    It is all useless. It is like chasing the wind." (Ecclesiastes 2:26). The "it" in this case‚ F Scott Fitzgerald’s groundbreaking novel The Great Gatsby‚ refers to the exhaustive efforts Gatsby undertakes in his quest for life: the life he wants to live‚ the so-called American Dream. The novel is Fitzgerald’s vessel of commentary and criticism of the American Dream. As he paints a vivid portrait of the Jazz Age‚ Fitzgerald defines this Dream‚ and through Gatsby’s downfall‚ expresses the futility and

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    nation‚ America has been placed on a pedestal for others in foreign land to admire‚ yearn‚ desire‚ and crave. This land has been viewed as the place where milk and honey flow‚ a land of plenty and where dreams can become reality. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ portrays the concept of the American dream during the 1920’s to modern times. By focusing on the “dreams” of the characters and the actions that they take to try to fulfil those dreams‚ Fitzgerald is able to reveal the

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    Similarities and Differences in Characters Vs. Actors In the novel and film On the Road by Jack Kerouac‚ the choice of actors to play the major roles‚ especially that of the narrator Sal Paradise‚ was bad in that it was way off base from Kerouac’s book. Why does the choice of actors significantly differ from how they are portrayed in the novel? Because Jack Kerouac had written the novel so long ago that he did not have the knowledge or wording to explain or show how they are portrayed in the film

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    also people that say that they are sacrificial‚ but yet there are things that they can do to be more than what they are. In the book Les Mis‚ by: Victor Hugo there are a couple people that are very sacrificial. They have done many things in the movie and the book that have done a great deed to people and they have helped saved lives. There are many characters in this book that I could argue about them being sacrificial. They put their lives in danger to help save others. People that sacrifice their

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    Steinbeck. In the 1930’s‚ North America faced the Great Depression‚ the longest economic slump ever experienced by the country. Author John Steinbeck wrote about the tragic experience of a poor American family (The Joads) as they get kicked off their Oklahoma home and moved west towards California‚ during the time of the Great Depression through his book. Steinbeck’s novel became so popular that the movie‚ consisting of the same name as the book‚ directed by John Ford was even made after it. Like

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    The Great War‚ America promised a limitless amount of both social and financial opportunities for anyone inclined to pursue a hard working lifestyle--An American Dream. But for others striving and realizing for the dream had altered them‚ as they acquired wealth to only pursue the pleasure. In the novel The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ the lives of three characters present the emptiness that result when wealth and pleasure have ended in themselves. These characters Jay Gatsby‚ George

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