Great Gatsby and 8 Mile
Money=Happiness?:
The Truth of the Upper Class in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Silver’s 8 Mile
Process Piece I enjoyed writing this essay about The Great Gatsby and 8 Mile because the comparison of this modern movie connects to my life a lot. I listen to Eminem’s music all the time and that makes me more attached to the movie and comparative essay. Writing about one of my favorite movies and a great book makes me that much more compelled to explore as deep as I can into the connections of the two texts. The plots of the two texts couldn’t be any more different, but when I get to analyze and decipher what the relationships are, it makes me feel like a detective. The fact that I got to chose the text to compare The Great Gatsby to also made the essay more fun to write about. I liked writing about The Scarlet Letter and In the Blood, but there is more of a personal interest for me, when I choose the text. Connecting these two texts has helped me analyze two things, that are so vastly different and take place in such different times, together. In the future I will be watching a movie and think about all the different texts I have read and try to compare that movie to it. The ability to compare and contrast two texts is a very useful one that can help me the writings I do because it will bring something new to the table that people may not have thought about before. Connecting texts can also help me get a deeper understanding of what the author might have been trying to say because it will have been explained differently in a different text. The actual writing about these two texts has helped me grow as a writer throughout all of the trials and tribulations in each draft. Every time I went to rework my essay, I had two different texts to look at and use in proving my main thesis. This is very helpful to me because it gives me a broader option of which text can prove a specific point the best. The writer’s workshops we went through were helpful
The Truth of the Upper Class in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Silver’s 8 Mile
Process Piece I enjoyed writing this essay about The Great Gatsby and 8 Mile because the comparison of this modern movie connects to my life a lot. I listen to Eminem’s music all the time and that makes me more attached to the movie and comparative essay. Writing about one of my favorite movies and a great book makes me that much more compelled to explore as deep as I can into the connections of the two texts. The plots of the two texts couldn’t be any more different, but when I get to analyze and decipher what the relationships are, it makes me feel like a detective. The fact that I got to chose the text to compare The Great Gatsby to also made the essay more fun to write about. I liked writing about The Scarlet Letter and In the Blood, but there is more of a personal interest for me, when I choose the text. Connecting these two texts has helped me analyze two things, that are so vastly different and take place in such different times, together. In the future I will be watching a movie and think about all the different texts I have read and try to compare that movie to it. The ability to compare and contrast two texts is a very useful one that can help me the writings I do because it will bring something new to the table that people may not have thought about before. Connecting texts can also help me get a deeper understanding of what the author might have been trying to say because it will have been explained differently in a different text. The actual writing about these two texts has helped me grow as a writer throughout all of the trials and tribulations in each draft. Every time I went to rework my essay, I had two different texts to look at and use in proving my main thesis. This is very helpful to me because it gives me a broader option of which text can prove a specific point the best. The writer’s workshops we went through were helpful
Cited: 8 Mile. Curtis Hanson. November 8, 2002. Universal Pictures. DVD. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York: Scribner, 1925. Print