Materialism In The Great Gatsby

After reading ‘The Great Gatsby’, I was inspired to write a literary piece with the purpose to inform and entertain the young adult reader about a materialistic distortion of the American Dream of self-determination and self-improvement, as the theme of identity was foreseen by all characters and with the help of stimulus texts such as ‘The Great Gatsby’ and ‘The Diamond as big as the Ritz’, I incorporated some of Fitzgerald’s ideas of mysterious characters by choosing what sides of the characters’ personalities I exposed and what part to conceal to mirror our reality where we only have our own perspective of other people, hence why the title of my story was called ‘Coloured Boy’ as very little is revealed about the protagonist, enforcing the
These intensifiers persuade the reader to continue reading as they emphasize the idealistic views in my corruption piece. The hyperbole such as ‘never coming back’ and ‘destroy the morality of what could be eternal’ also serve the purpose of an oppressive feeling as well as the isolation of common human feelings which are remarkable and intense to such an extent that they do not remain ordinary. The repetition of the pronoun ‘my’ is used to create the idea of ownership which leads the reader to convey the idea of the characters possessive demeanour such as that of the
This balance between the two styles enables the piece of writing to be engaging and not just full of suspense and more like a 20th century text but still sustaining the idea of an intriguing mystery that would shock my intended 20th century audience. References to other corrupt iconography for example the vividly descriptive setting are a clear acknowledgement within my own as they create a strong mood and feeling that would captivate the readers 'For almost a decade, his name has been plastered on the screens of our personal possessions almost as a way of trying to tell us that we are an accessory to his mastermind plan that failed