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    Melody Akinduro ENG4U Ms.Jackson 8th of January 2012. The Journal Of The Great Gatsby JOURNAL ONE The great Gatsby book started with a man telling us his father advised him never to criticize anyone ‚ he said his father told him he should remember that all this people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had and his father thought him how to be reserved. He also have good manners and a well honourable character. Nick just graduated from yale university and he

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    the novel The Great Gatsby‚ love is shown between many different characters in different ways. The reader experiences love at its best and worst. We see relationships flourish‚ rekindle and end between the different characters. The most controversial relationship is the relationship between Daisy and Tom. Through infidelity‚ and mistrust‚ tragedy occurs. Other characters become associated with their marital problems‚ showing different kinds of love and relationships. In the play Hamlet‚ the reader

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    that everyone is full of deception and ulterior motives. Tom‚ Daisy and Gatsby all appear innocent and happy from an outsider’s perspective but when given a closer look the imperfections shine bright…. Hamlet is based aroundcharacters that play their roles behind the veil of duplicity. Everything appears to be true and accurate‚ but in reality it’s vice-versa. Three of the main characters that hid behind the mask are Hamlet‚ King Claudius‚ and Polonius. From behind this mask‚ their appearance is

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    During history there have been literary works that had characters that were remarkably similar to each other. Two characters that stood out was Jay Gatsby‚ from The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald and Hamlet from The Tragedy of Hamlet‚ Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare because they were both being driven to a separate kind of person than who they usually which is being more insane than the usual human would be. Some reason for their peculiar outbursts of who they really are is a particular

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    Compare/Contrast If Daisy has to pick between two men with whom to spend the rest her of life‚ she should pick Gatsby. He may not come from as wealthy of background of Daisy‚ but he does truly love her. Gatsby is from North Dakota and he was not born rich. Also his real name is James Gatz. He did not like his family‚ he was convinced he was given to the wrong family. By his late teens Gatsby had left home and this is when he met Dan Cody. The two became good friends after Gatsby warned Dan about

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    In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ the protagonist Nick Carraway meets his very wealthy neighbor Jay Gatsby and develops a strong friendship with him. Gatsby falls in love with Daisy Buchanan but struggles to actually get her to be with him. Gatsby is willing to do anything for Daisy‚ including buying her expensive gifts and throwing wild parties. The characters show how it is like to live in West and East Egg in the 1920’s‚ the time period before the Great Depression. In the movie that

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    The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby is a book filled with twists and turns of events from beginning to end. It involves a love/hate relationship triangle. The two characters I am comparing and contrasting are Tom Buchannan and Jay Gatsby. Both of these men yearn for a relationship with a lady named Daisy. These characters are similar because they each want to earn Daisy’s love; yet‚ they are drastically different. Both Tom Buchannan and Jay Gatsby are men who commit two different types of uniform

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    The Great Gatsby Film vs. Novel To start‚ as the film begins‚ Nick Carraway‚ is talking to a psychiatrist in some sort of “insane asylum.” This seems to be out of character for the narrator as Nick is seen as someone who is very thoughtful and careful. In the novel‚ there was no impression that his experience with Jay Gatsby led him to be mentally unsound. However‚ the film portrayed Carraway to be “on the edge of crazy” after Gatsby’s death‚ which was a bit of a stretch. One thing left out

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    The Great Gatsby Chapter 5 Inclass Essay The 2013 version of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald had portrayed chapter five to his intentions better than the 1974 movie version. The 2013 movie represented the emotions and imagery of Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan’s meeting better than the 1974 version. Some crucial aspects that was presented around the scene was how weird and strange the atmosphere was between Jay and Daisy‚ the scenery and rain‚ and the clock that Jay broke. First‚ when Jay

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    Today I will talk about how Jay Gatsby and Hamlet are alike? I will also show you how they are different from each other. Both of them are tragic heroes in a way‚ but their tragic flaws are different. Jay Gatsby’s tragic flaw is that he is trying to make his dream turn into reality. Hamlets tragic flaw is that he has an inability to balance reason and passion. Hamlet said “O‚ what a rogue and peasant slave am I! Is it not monstrous that this player here‚ But in a fiction‚ in a dream of passion‚

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