...to describe objects look like in the book the author is using colors to describe feelings and objects. the author does a great job with this and use the colors really well . The author use the color but to represent blood on the carpet before Gatsby got shot and killed . Gatsby stood in the center of the crimson carpet and gazed around with fascinated eyes. Daisy watched him and left her sweet exciting laugh ; Daisy watched him and left her sweet exciting laughing; A tiny gust of powder rose from her bosom into the air. in the end of the book red represents Gatsby's blood when Myrtle’s husband shoots him in the back. in the end of the book red represents Gatsby's blood when Myrtle’s husband shoots him in the back. in conclusion the color red is used when blood is mentioned in the book “The Great Gatsby”...
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...Introduction Some people don’t see the meaning In symbolism, and frantically I feel it is highly overlooked . Symbolism is important because it helps you have a deeper meaning of your story. Oh, but there is more. So kick back, read on and let me open your mind into the world of Symbolism, and why it helps you infer what a book it’s about, how you practice symbolism in your head, or just knowing what some of the symbols mean! It’s easy to figure out what a book is about when you read. But what if I told you you could get a glimpse of what it’s about before even turning a page! For instance in the novel twilight on the cover you see a red apple, as you may know the book is centered around a human girl who falls in love with an immortal vampire....
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...Color Symbolism Rough Draft Throughout life a person experiences and sees many different colors. All colors send a hidden message to a person. The message can be based on that person’s emotion or what they just simply think the color’s message is. “Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions”, this was said by Pablo Picasso. What he means by this is that colors can and will have a very big effect on your emotions and actions. Looking at certain colors can change your whole mood very quickly whether it’s great or awful. Some dark colors could cause you to be sad, angry, or gloomy. But when a person looks at bright, beautiful colors it can make them very happy, friendly and social. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby,...
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...Jacob Ferguson Mrs. Bennett English 10A/3rd hour 2nd November, 2016 Symbolism Symbolism is a creative way authors choose to describe people, places, or objects in a piece of writing. By using symbolism, an author can give something more significance in a story, and add an extra layer of meaning that wasn’t there before. In “The Great Gatsby” symbolism is used to give a deeper meaning to the story, and by analyzing it the reader can better understand the message it is portraying. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses symbolism throughout “The Great Gatsby” in a variety of unique ways to express his feelings about 1920’s America. Between West Egg and the city lies The Valley of Ashes, a place symbolised in “The Great Gatsby”, as grey, and dreary. By using...
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...Symbolism of Houses and Cars in The Great Gatsby Francis Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, is full of symbolism, which is portrayed by the houses and cars in an array of ways. One of the more important qualities of symbolism within The Great Gatsby is the way in which it is so completely incorporated into the plot and structure. Symbols, such as Gatsby's house and car, symbolize material wealth. Gatsby's house "[is] a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy" which contains "a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy" is a symbol of Gatsby's large illegal income (Fitzgerald 9). Gatsby's large income isn't enough to keep him happy. He needs "The house he feels he needs in order to win happiness" and it is also the perfect symbol of carelessness with money which is a major part of his personality (Bewley 24). Gatsby's house like his car symbolizes his vulgar and excessive trait of getting attention. Gatz's house is a mixture of different styles and periods which symbolizes an owner who does not know their true identity. The Buchanan's house is symbolic of their ideals. East Egg is home to the more prominent established wealth families. Tom's and Daisy's home is on the East Egg. Their house, a "red and white Georgian Colonial mansion overlooking the bay" with its "wine-colored rug[s]" is just as impressive as Gatsby's house but much more low-key (Fitzgerald 11) (13). East egg and Tom's home represents the established wealth and...
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...The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a story surrounding the decay of the American Dream in the 1920’s; a time when virtually anyone could achieve the dream. Jay Gatsby, the main character, encompasses every fault in the warped idea of the American Dream in the booming 20’s making The Great Gatsby, the perfect title for the story. The American dream is commonly defined as “The ideals of freedom, equality, and opportunity traditionally held to be available to every American. (Dictionary) Almost any American would describe the American Dream as a stable income, a sustainable job and the chance to provide the opportunity for the following generation to do even better. In the booming 20’s, that dream was available to almost every...
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...F. Scott Fitzgerald was an extraordinary author. He uses color symbolism throughout his famous novel The Great Gatsby. Nick Carraway, the narrator of the story, is related to Daisy Buchanan. Jay Gatsby, the man who throws the best parties in all of New York, is in love with Daisy. Tom, Daisy’s husband, has an affair with a woman named Myrtle from the Valley of Ashes. Fitzgerald use of color throughout the novel relates to the main character's thoughts, feelings, wants, and actions. Fitzgerald often uses the colors white, gold, and green to show further depth into the lives of the characters. White in the novel is used in reference with Daisy Buchanan. A daisy is white flower that represents innocence. When Nick first arrives at the Buchanan’s house in chapter one he says, “They were both in white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if hey had just been blown back in after short flight around the house.” (p.9) One of the girls he is referring to is Daisy. He is alluding to the fact the girls are happy, and full of life and innocence. White often represents innocence and purity....
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...Michael Pattison Mrs.Bowden American Literat February 26, 2015 Many authors use symbolism to have an object represent a different, significant meaning then the obvious meaning. In the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses symbolism quite often through the novel, such as the color of white to show the determination of the characters when it is actually used to cover up their dishonesty. Throughout the novel the color white is used many times as a symbol, such as the time Gatsby wore an all white suit during his encounter with Tom. Gatsby’s plan was very evil and selfish and it is very ironic that he chose that color, since they represent innocence. This was his way of hiding all of the things he did it the past that doesn’t make him look like a supporting type of such. He spent the past four years try to get rich by selling alcohol so he could be able to support someone like Daisy, but he did it in the wrong ways. While he was do this, Tom had the right idea and impressed Daisy without the use of money. When Jordan said “we’re all white here,” she was using it as a symbol to say that they all have nothing to hide because white is a color that represents innocence. When the argument was reaching its end, Gatsby’s not so innocent character was revealed. “That’s one of his little stunts. I picked him up for a bootlegger the first time I saw him, and I wasn’t far wrong,” said Tom. Gatsby’s true character finally came out and the man who appeared to be generous...
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...explains the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald flawlessly. The Great Gatsby is a complex story that can be read in various ways to reach a deeper meaning of understanding. The book has an abundance of descriptive colors that expand on and support the story. These colors can be interpreted differently from person to person based on experiences and situations. In the novel, author F. Scott Fitzgerald uses them well to capture the characteristics of the story. However, this begs the question of how a factor as minor as color can affect so many aspects of...
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...Fitzgerald use symbolism concerning the American dream? Fitzgerald uses personification and the colors: green, red, white, yellow, blue, grey, and purple to symbolize the truth and principles within and about the American dream. The colors mentioned the most and used to enforce a greater meaning in the Great Gatsby are: green, yellow, red, blue, grey and white. Each color is a crucial detail in the book relating to intentions and foreboding. Throughout the history of literature colors have been used as motif. *add quote about color motifs in literature* Red commonly means power, danger, passion and love. Yellow is associated...
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...incorporated writing into his everyday life in order to become an expert and he definitely has. Symbols in English are small things that have a big meaning and the letter “Y” is one of them in The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald didn't show us what he was doing with the letter “Y”, but he sure did hint it. I believe the letter “Y” is an underlying theme in The Great Gatsby. In order to break down how he uses it, we first need to describe the construction of the letter “Y”. It begins at its base like a stem that begins to grow, then the stem breaks off into two distinct directions and goes farther and farther apart, to its end, like a line segment in Geometry. However, in The Great Gatsby, it represents life experiences. Significantly, it is not likely coincidental that Fitzgerald chose names with the letter ”Y” for characters who experienced one...
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...The Narrative Art of The Great Gatsby Introduction The Great Gatsby was written in 1925. The author, Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) is one of the most outstanding writers in America. As a member of the “lost generation”, Fitzgerald made the short life of Gatsby epitome of the rise, boom and decline of the “American Dream” in “Jazz Age”. This novel shows us unusually rich literary and aesthetic connotation is has by its unique narrative perspective, the ups and downs of plot, superb accurate language, various rhetorical devices and vivid character images. To some extent, the reason why The Great Gatsby can become a famous classic work is that the author uses extraordinary narrative techniques in it. All the techniques are employed skillfully by Fitzgerald. The study of narrative art in this work has been highlighted in the research area in these years. Zhang Jinfeng(2001) analyzes the role of Nick in the novel from the its structure, themes and other aspects. Cheng Xilin(2009) uses the spatial narrative theory to discussed the space narrative art in The Great Gatsby from three aspects: the geography space, social space and the text space. Xiao Dongbo(2009) starts with the analysis on author and characters and expound the connotation of "American dream" and profoundly reveals the historical process of the formation, development and burst of the "American dream". Shang Guanghui(2011) analyzes The Great Gatsby from the narrators of the role and argues that the communication...
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...* 1. The passage above is notable chiefly for c. a literary conceit 2. In The Federalist, No, X, James Madison proposed that the dangers of factions be controlled by a a. republican form of government * 3. Sky Woman, Wolverine, and Turtle are all important figures in which of the following types of literature ? * d. Native American oral tales * 4. In line 1, “offspring” most probably refers to the author’s * b. book of poem * * 5. “My rambling brat” (line 11) is an example of * d. personification * * * 6. Place the name of teach of the Colonial era figures beside the British colony with which he is most closely associated. A. John Smith- The Virginia Colony B. John Winthrop- The Massachusetts Bay Colony * C. Roger Williams- The Colony Of Rhode Island * * * 7. The passage above is an example of a. Puritanism * * 8. Thomas Pain’s Common Sense had a direct influence on which of the following Revolutionary era works? * c. Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence * 9. The passage above is from * a. William Bradford’s The History of Plimouth Plantation 10. All of the following are writers of the Colonial era EXCEPT b. Margaret Fuller 11. The passage would best be described as an example of d. Sentimentalism 12. The first paragraph of the passage provides an example of which of the following figures of speech ? c. Apostrophe 13...
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...critical theory today critical theory today A Us e r - F r i e n d l y G u i d e S E C O N D E D I T I O N L O I S T Y S O N New York London Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Routledge Taylor & Francis Group 270 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10016 Routledge Taylor & Francis Group 2 Park Square Milton Park, Abingdon Oxon OX14 4RN © 2006 by Lois Tyson Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business Printed in the United States of America on acid‑free paper 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 International Standard Book Number‑10: 0‑415‑97410‑0 (Softcover) 0‑415‑97409‑7 (Hardcover) International Standard Book Number‑13: 978‑0‑415‑97410‑3 (Softcover) 978‑0‑415‑97409‑7 (Hardcover) No part of this book may be reprinted, reproduced, transmitted, or utilized in any form by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying, microfilming, and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without written permission from the publishers. Trademark Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging‑in‑Publication Data Tyson, Lois, 1950‑ Critical theory today : a user‑friendly guide / Lois Tyson.‑‑ 2nd ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0‑415‑97409‑7 (hb) ‑‑ ISBN 0‑415‑97410‑0 (pb) 1. Criticism...
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...NORTH AMERICAN FICTION BRIEF INTRODUCTION: Before starting our study of American Fiction we must understand what American Literature is in itself and which pieces of writing we can include within this label. It is believed that when a piece is written in North America, more precisely in the USA, it would automatically be given this epithet. But it should be taken into account that this idea is quite broad and doesn’t reflect the real essence of the term. However, there is also another definition that gathers this essence: American Literature is the one that represents the Americanism, the singularity of the USA philosophy and culture. This way, instead of focusing on who the author is, it is focused on the content of the writing. In that which concerns Fiction, the following documents are the ones considered as narrative: Speeches Letters Short Stories Essays Political Documents Sermons Novels Diaries 1 FIRST LITERARY EXPRESSIONS The first documents in which the idea of Americanism is very present are the Sermons. They respond to the strict Protestantism settled in the New Continent after the arrival of the Pilgrim Fathers and Puritans in the Mayflower (1620) and the Arabella (1630). They established a theocratic community whose main and only point of reference was the Bible. That is why the idea of the ‘city upon a hill’ is still very present in American mentality. As we all know...
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