...The Great Gatsby Class study guide Prep – complete in your notebook 1. What was Prohibition? When did it become Law & when was it repealed? 2. What is Modernist literature and how does The Great Gatsby fit into this genre? 3. Who was F. Scott Fitzgerald? List 5 facts about him. 4. Define the ‘Roaring 20s” 5. Define the ‘Jazz Age’. 6. In your own words, define ‘The American Dream’ in terms of material wealth and philosophical terms. 7. Find a map of the location described in this book and print it off. (Include in your notebook) Reading Time line: Activity Complete Prep Read chapter 1&2 of The Great Gatsby Read chapter 3&4 of The Great Gatsby Read chapter 5&6 of The Great Gatsby Finish The Great Gatsby School and Due Dates Cerritos LBCC 4/12 5/3 4/19 5/5 ELAC Sat. 4/30 5/7 ELAC Mon 4/25 5/2 4/26 5/10 5/14 5/9 5/3 5/17 5/21 5/16 5/10 5/24 5/28 5/23 Chapter 1& 2 – Notebook entries Make a list of the major characters and your initial impression of each one. Describe each ‘egg’ in terms of location – what does the term ‘ashes’ represent? Describe the plot – what happens? Who does what? Chapter 3& 4 – Notebook entries Describe the party, which Nick attends, and his reaction when he meets Gatsby. What does Nick learn about Gatsby? How is Gatsby defined in the third chapter? Describe the connection between Gatsby & daisy. Why did Gatsby buy the home in the West Egg? Describe the plot – what happens? Who does what? Chapter 5& 6 – Notebook entries What...
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...because they are too blind from the love. In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby believed that the women he loved left him for someone with much more money that he had when he was in the war and Tom knows that Daisy would never leave him for some other man. In the musical Chicago Amos feels the need to do anything to make Roxie happy so she can love him and not ignore him and furthermore in the musical Billy know that he can control the women that he fights for because that's why he wins all his cases. “ There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice” (Fitzgerald). In both The Great Gatsby and...
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...Today I would like to talk about a literary topic tat I have taken from our sheet and mad our own. Mr. Kasten suggested discussing why a character would be considered one of the greatest literary characters. I instead want to discuss why the Great Gastby is one of the greatest pieces of literature ever written. When I was little, I loved to read, every Sunday my dad would take me to the library and I would get around 10 books or so that I would devour. Now this happened every week from the time I was in first grade to the time I was in 6th grade or so. My advanced reading skills would draw me to the young adult section, wher as a first grader I read the Princess diaries, a book that was meant for kids 13 and up. This was not me, I was around six years old. But every week I would still be drawn to the young adult section with books about the glitz and the glamour, these were books that you would never find in the kids section. Every week my dad would ask me : Why don’t you want to read any classics and I responded “because they are boring.” But that changed when I picked up the Great Gatsby...
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...Gatsby: The Deadly Deceiver What makes someone truly happy in life? Is it money? Power? Love? The reasons for happiness vary from person to person. But how much happiness does someone need? Are people ever truly satisfied, or does the constant "selfish desire for something, especially wealth, power, or food", otherwise known as greed drive people(Oxford 1)? Why are some wealthy people unhappy, when they have so much? In The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald uses Gatsby's deceptive personality, bamboozling Nick, and fabricating the truth, to explain how greed leads to a deterioration of life. Gatsby's shady history was deceiving, and effectively portrays how greed can ruin a life. The many rumors circulating about Gatsby such as "he was a German spy during the war" illustrate that no one really knew who Gatsby was(Fitzgerald 48). Through his deceptive ways he never rebuffed nor verified the claims, which led to more curiosity. Gatsby did this so that his name would radiate through town and Daisy would hear his name. Gatsby used this deception to fuel his greed for Daisy. His reputation suffered, but he was willing to sacrifice his own reputation just to impress Daisy, no matter the cost. This deception represents greed of the 1920's. Gatsby is a figure of greed, because even when he had all the wealth in the world, he was never truly satisfied. Fitzgerald wanted people to realize that greed is rampant in society, and he wanted people to be happy with what...
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...John Fowles, the author of The Collector and The Great Gatsby, directed by Baz Luhrmann relate to each other in many ways. Both the author and director of the two comparative texts uses symbolism, illusion and contrast to identify the intensity of the obsessive love present in both texts. The Collector and The Great Gatsby contain a complex text and a passionate and insightful tragedy of mistaken and obsessive love. The Great Gatsby's story has a strong correlation with the theme of the Collector focussing on the idea of obsessive love, in many ways. The two stories can be described as a tragic love story of male dominance, a complex portrait of two minds, which include noble actions that have devastating side effects. Frederick and Gatsby are both immensely rich and do everything they can to please their loves, they are common in the sense that...
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...compare Jay Gatsby from Francisco Reteche. When I first saw Gatsby, I already noticed one similarity that I can pair with Reteche wherein they were both mysterious in the starting part of the story and we could not predict what were they thinking. There were still some similarities that I noticed between the two of them like their main problem was about a girl wherein they wanted to be with a certain girl who left them. They were both sad and broken-hearted with the respective girls that they loved hooked up with another men. In the story Zita, Reteche was living alone since his girlfriend left him, as well as in the movie, Jay Gatsby was also living alone since he left his family when he was sixteen years old to earn a living. And lastly, the reason on why Zita from the city and Daisy left Reteche and Gatsby was similar wherein Zita from the city left Reteche because he was just an ordinary man and Zita from the city wanted a rich man, so she left him and clung to a rich guy, while Daisy did not wait for Gatsby anymore because before when there where still a spark between them, Gatsby used to be a nobody, so Daisy married Tom because she felt more secured with Tom because of his wealth and stability in life. I noticed only few differences between Reteche and Gatsby wherein I can say that there were more similarities between them in terms of how the story revolves. The first difference that I noticed was that Reteche was just a poor or average schoolteacher, while Gatsby was rich...
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...whatever happens in the past is worth remembering for experiences. The Great Gatsby is a great example because the reader sees that Jay basically builds his success on the way he used to be like when he was younger. First, at the beginning readers see that Gatsby is a wealth man and his past is kept a secret. Suspense is building up and the reader is filled with curiosity because they hear about how he could be a murderer and a decendant of some bad people. Later on, it is said that Jay was not as wealthy as he is now and he lived a different life. Once he meets Dan Cody, he changes completely. Dan was the reason he changed and why he wanted to turn out to be a successful person....
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...Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald emphasizes the resilience of Tom and Daisy's corrupt marriage. He clearly expresses how misfortunate Daisy seems of her marriage in the novel. She falls in love with Gatsby after she meets him again and she seems not love Tom anymore. But after Tom tells Daisy Gatsby is a bootlegger , she does not seem love Gatsby anymore. Daisy does not leave Tom as what Gatsby wishes. Daisy lets Tom to think that Gatsby was driving when Myrtle Wilson was killed and she left with Tom. Daisy and Tom frame Gatsby to his death together. Part 2 Daisy loves Gatsby even though she frames him Although Tom and Daisy frame Gatsby in the novel “The Great Gatsby” by Fitzgerald, Daisy loves Gatsby. Daisy meets Gatsby again and falls in love with him like what she does five years ago. Gatsby wants Daisy to tell Tom that she has never loved him and she does so...
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...think your day might go? Not only does it apply to many people but it also applies the characters of F. Scott Fitzgerald's “The Great Gatsby”. The following will explain how weather conditions in “The Great Gatsby” foreshadow eventual outcomes for the main characters. Foreshadowment can be hard to see when you're not expecting it, and when sunny weather sets in a uplifting feeling it can be especially hard to notice it. A example of this is as Gatsby and Nick go to lunch they drive over the Queensboro bridge. As the drive into the city Nick says “Anything can happen now that we’ve slid over this bridge.”. The bridge to Nick is a gateway to adventure which...
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...forever. It is human nature to regret that which is lost, therefore, one feels the need to recreate the past and is a common theme in everyday life. These attempts at trying to repeat the past, however, are usually in vain. The novel “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a great example of this, as the plot focuses on the concept of recapturing the past. The plot of this story revolves around the growth and press of this concept and is told relative to the main character in the story, Jay Gatsby. Fitzgerald’s usage of this character effectively conveys this idea throughout the novel. The story about how and why Gatsby is unsuccessful in recapturing his past, how his actions hurt himself and others around him and how he ultimately fails while achieving nothing. Throughout the story, we learn that Jay Gatsby is a man who depends and dwells upon his past to reach his dream. Through the narrator, Nick Carraway, we can see that Gatsby’s bad habit of holding on the past does not help him get anywhere with his goal. He believes that the past could be repeated, “'Can't repeat the past?' he cried incredulously. ‘Why of course you can!'” (Fitzgerald, 85). This shows Gatsby’s inability to move on from the past. This obsession with the past inspires Gatsby to do everything he does in order to win back Daisy. He gets into the business of bootleg alcohol selling. To get Daisy’s attention, he throws lavish parties every week and he buys a mansion across the bay in front of Daisy’s mansion...
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...Throughout the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”, Jay Gatsby’s incapability to maintain his identity is evident as everything he does is not for himself, but for Daisy. The characterization of Gatsby is important in proving that the corruption in mortality is the result of the obsession with completing a goal; consequently, Jay loses all his initial morals and develops new morals all in the hope of winning Daisy back. Simply stated, Gatsby’s actions of selling illegal alcohol and trading in stolen securities, lead to this corruption. Although, Gatsby believes that his actions of bootlegging are not corrupt since it is all going towards acquiring great wealth by which he will attain Daisy’s attention and win her back. Gatsby’s...
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...dramatic social change and political change it was known for the outrageous parties the drinking the flappers and the big sleepless cities . In the book “The Great Gatsby“ this was around the time the story took place . “The Great Gatsby” was written by American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald he made the setting in Long Island and New York City in the area of West egg and East egg . He wanted to create something extraordinary and beautiful and simple so he wrote this novel. In the book there are many interesting characters like Gatsby he was so mysterious he had me with so much questions. Daisy caught my eye the most she was calm and innocent in the beginning of the book i feel like they way the author linked...
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...Throughout the The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald uses symbolism to tell the story. Symbolism is very heavily integrated into the novel, and it would not have the popularity it has had for several decades if it did not contain this. The symbolism given to the settings, actions, and dialogues throughout the novel are what make it a classic. The most apparent symbol from The Great Gatsby is the symbol of time. The word ‘time’ appears on what seems like every page of the book. The excess use of this word stresses the importance that Fitzgerald was trying to emphasize in the theme of the book. Jay Gatsby’s character revolves around time as well. His relationship with time has good and bad sides to it. Gatsby wants nothing more but to be able to erase five years of his life as...
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...In the 1920s, partying and jazz were a strong front, but when the charade of happiness is removed, you reveal the bootleggers and mob bosses that truly controlled it all. F. Scott Fitzgerald personified the era with his book, The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald’s book gave examples, such as the main character Gatsby, of people who started off as dirt poor street hoodlums to tycoons in substantial mansions. Now that’s the real American Dream. Known as the “Jazz Age” or “The Roaring Twenties”, the 1920s were truly an extremely intriguing time in American history. America recently had assisted in winning the largest military conflict of that current time, Jazz was on the rise, and lavish parties were everywhere. It was a fantastic time, but there was...
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...Snyder 8 May 2013 For the Love of Money In The Great Gatsby, a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, money is shown as a boundary between classes. The 1920’s became known as the party period and was during the highest point of the stock market. Fitzgerald shows how money is important through old money and new money. Fitzgerald portrays how the higher class rank is seemed to have a “better” life, while people continuously take advantage of them, are constantly trying to be pleased, and how they are fooled by the lower class trying to pretend they are from the higher class. Those we are in the higher class are taken advantage of by the people. Higher class people often find themselves in situations where the lower class wants something from them. While George Wilson is talking to Tom Buchanan about his car, he says, “But I need money pretty bad, and I was wondering what you were going to do with your old car” (Fitzgerald 123). Otherwise, Wilson does not spend much time talking to Tom. Only when Wilson needs something, does he decide to talk to Tom. Jay Gatsby is a man whose parties were known by everyone. Though, when the time of his funeral arises, no one shows up; “The minister glanced several times at his watch, so I took him aside and asked him to wait for half an hour. But it wasn’t any use. Nobody came” (Fitzgerald 174). Anyone who is anyone comes to Gatsby’s parties, just to say they are there. No one actually cares about Gatsby, and they all take advantage of him and his kindness...
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