their “jazz music‚ Broadway Musicals” (1920s music)‚ and artists such as Jay-Z were not prominent during this time. Sadly‚ the film brimmed with music not from the promised time period‚ and this so music took away from the historical beauty of the time. With all that aside‚ the movie remains one of the most beautiful and humbling visuals I have ever witnessed. I would definately reccomend this movie to others‚ as I remained on edge for the majority of its showing‚ and I truly gained a new insight
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What is Modernism? This term was usually referred to as the literature era of the 1920’s. During the “Roaring Twenties”‚ as most would say‚ was the time of flappers‚ gangsters‚ and the beginning of some of the most renowned literature known to the United States. One of the famous books written in this time was The Great Gatsby‚ written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925. Included in the Modernism Era were the focus on trends and the extreme effect materialism makes on the society of the 1920’s. With
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“Only Gatsby‚ the man who gave his name to this book”. This suggests that Nick is very self-conscious about the fact that he is writing this book. Fitzgerald establishes Nick to be an almost invisible character that sees everything but is “Inclined to reserve all judgements”. But later in the chapter‚ after Nick has given his self-evaluation‚ Fitzgerald creates irony from Nick saying after “a sense of fundamental decencies is parcelled out at birth”. This contradiction makes the readers think that
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Nick in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald wrote this story in first person narrative‚ from the viewpoint of Nick. The interesting thing about this narrative structure is that Nick is not the main character‚ but rather a witness of the main character. He is proven unreliable and biased many times throughout the story by concealing particular events‚ revealing his judgments of other characters and lying. Nick writes
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simplicity emphasized on his father’s advises. He begins by commenting on himself‚ stating that his father taught him to not judge other people because if he does not see it from their sociological perspective he will not understand his judgments. This gives us a clear example of his personality and way to approach things along his way which helps to describe himself as a both highly moral and tolerant person; Therefore he makes the plot a simple one by showing the reader that he is a moral young
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forget the ultimate object of the project in Costa Rica to make money‚ Hammond said" (Crichton)‚ this shows his ultimate goal is to make money.
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the ploy of selling a vehicle to Wilson in order to get closer to The poor mechanic’s wife‚ Myrtle who is also Tom’s Mistress. One of our first seen interactions we see between the two is Tom talking down to Wilson while the latter just accepts it. This exchange shows that in Tom’s mind Wilson is no more than an instrument used for how he sees fit. After Myrtle is killed Tom is sad‚ but refuses to show it to maintain his cover while Wilson is distraught. He uses the current situation for his personal
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difficult and it leads to very hard times for the characters but it especially leads to the downfall of Gatsby’s hopes and dreams. For five years of Gatsby’s life his dream has been to get Daisy back. Gatsby felt the need to become rich and successful for this one reason He knows that Daisy cares for wealth and likes material items. He even bought a house right across from them. Whenever he sees the green light flashing from their doc he always thinks about the future that he hopes to have with her. One
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This next literature I will be discussing is “Don Quixote” written by Miguel De Cervantes which has a powerful message of social classes. This story tells you a lot about social classes and how it everyone is treated differently within the classes. Don Quixote is an old man who has read a lot of books about knights and decides to be come one. He is a very weather man and is one of the smartest people in his town. He set off on a great adventure in pursuit of eternal glory and drops what everything
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Alger. His tale Ragged Dick follows the same formula as many of his other stories. A young man works hard and with a stroke of luck becomes wildly successful. This is the quintessential American myth of success. But in the essay Horatio Alger Harlon Dalton has a different notion of Alger’s work calling it “socially destructive” (261). How can this be? Alger suggests that one need merely work hard and opportunity will eventually knock. He addresses the fact that many people are born behind the starting
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