The Great Gatsby My assignment was to compare the novel The Great Gatsby to the movies which were made in 1974 and 2000.While the basic idea of the book was expressed in both movies‚ I choose a version of 1974 because it seemed to have more noticeable details than the version which was realized in 2000. In my opinion the 2000 version didn’t do a better job in expressing the ideas of the book. The 1974 version did an excellent job in portraying the Jazz Age. The scenes of Gatsby’s party
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Viviana Arvizu November 29‚ 2011 Period 3. AP Senior Literature The Great Gatsby Literary Analysis The American Dream is an idea that has been present since American literature’s beginning. Typically‚ the dreamer aspires to rise from rags to riches‚ while accumulating such things as love‚ high status‚ wealth‚ and power on his way to the top. The dream has variations throughout different time periods‚ although it is generally based on ideas of freedom‚ self-reliance‚ and a desire for something
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from 1378 to 1417‚ when there were two‚ and later three‚ rival popes‚ each with his own following‚ his own Sacred College of Cardinals‚ and his own administrative offices.“ The two elections of 1378 produced two claimants to the papal title and the Great Schism. Bartolomeo Prignano‚ the Italian archbishop of Bari and the French cardinal Robert of Geneva. Each took a papal name and number: Urban VI‚ who stayed in Rome‚ and Clement VII‚ who returned to Avignon. Although Roman Catholic Church historians
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Symbols are always used in novels to help readers understand the story in-depth. In Francis Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby‚ symbols are widely used for Jay Gatsby and George Wilson’s character development. Symbols such as the area where these two characters lived‚ the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg‚ and the cars in this story were all used for this. This novel was filled with symbols and symbolism‚ which try to convey Fitzgerald’s ideas to the reader. Symbols were constantly used in Fitzgerald’s novel
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Cristian Lugo P.6 9/18/12 The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ has been celebrated as one of the greatest‚ if not the greatest American novel. Yet this is ironic for the society which has so hailed the book is precisely that which is criticized throughout it. Politically‚ the American dream was a foundation of ideals and hopes for any and every American individual. Specifically‚ one of the ideals was an American dream free of class distinction; that every person has the opportunity
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Josh Williams 33086951057 Mr. Williams ENG4U June 6th‚ 2013 Dear Ms. Hartill Rollercoasters! You may be asking yourself why I started off with the word rollercoasters‚ and I will tell you but first I want to say that reading The Great Gatsby has been a very eye opening experience for me. I didn’t expect many things to happen the way they did. This book to me was sort of a mystery novel. One minute people are having a wonderful time at a party and the next conversations are brought up about
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from the eyes of the public. In Fitzgerald’s avant-garde work‚ The Great Gatsby reveals the Roaring Twenties a time were the world was coming back to normalcy after World War I. Time period were woman redefined themselves‚ jazz blossomed‚ and mob illegal operations increased. James Gatz is driven by love to transcend and become Jay Gatsby in order to win the affection of Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby’s over the top parties attracted great amount of rich and pompous people that came without invitation and
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steamship or gently crack an egg. There were adding machines which might put bank clerks out of a job; George Jennings installed his Monkey Closets in the Retiring Rooms of The Crystal Palace. These were the first public toilets‚ and they caused great excitement. During the exhibition‚ a lot of visitors paid one penny to use them; for the penny they got a clean seat‚ a towel‚ a comb and a shoe shine. "To spend a penny" became a euphemism (now archaic) for going to the toilet. The flushing toilets
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The Great Gatsby Book Report Project by Dylan Davis For my book report project I chose to do a graffiti wall for the book The Great Gatsby. I made a brick wall out of red poster board and drawn on lines for the bricks. I chose five words that I thought related to the book and spray painted them onto the wall to create a graffiti look. The five words I chose are party‚ dream‚ love‚ eyes‚ and death. Here are the reasons why I chose each of these individual words: Party: I chose the word party because
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