Pattern In The Great Gatsby
Introduction: How’d He Do That?
Memory, symbol, and pattern affect the reading of literature by making it easier for readers to understand what’s going on in a literary work. While reading, readers begin to notice the trend or pattern in the devices that they recognize such as themes or symbols. When reading literature, readers tend to recall certain events or small parts from other parts of literature from what they’re reading currently. The recognition of patterns make it easier to read complicated literature by completely comprehending the intended message that withholds in the literary work. A time when my appreciation of a literary work was enhanced by understanding symbol and or pattern was when reading The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. …show more content…
The novel had allowed me to see in a different perspective on wealth, social class, and the ultimate American dream which eventually made me fully comprehend. It depicted on how the American dream can actually be deceitful, but it also shows how hard work can be determined as being successful.
Chapter 1 - Every Trip is a Quest (Except When It’s Not) The five aspects of QUEST are the quester, setting, intended reason, challenges and trials, and actual reason.
The quester is usually the protagonist who goes on a quest without actually knowing that they are in one. The setting or the place to go is where the quest is supposed to take place and or the destination. The reason to go is different from the real reason; it’s a plan to do something or go somewhere they want to be in order to accomplish their quest. The challenges and trials during their quest are obstacles they are forced to face, it also tests their skills and knowledge. The real reason to go on the quest is mostly self-knowledge, learning more of themselves and what they can do and how the rest of the world …show more content…
work. Paper Towns by John Green
The quester: a high school student in his senior year in love with a girl since childhood who then disappeared before prom and graduation.
A place to go: in order to find Margo Roth Spiegelman, the girl of his dreams whom disappeared, find clues that Margo have left to “find” her. He travels with his two best friends and Margo’s best friend to New York from Florida to find where she had disappeared to.
A stated reason to go there: not only to see if Margo is still alive and well, but also convince her to come back to Florida.
Challenges and trials: The clues that Margo left were difficult to figure out and sometimes she wasn’t at the place when they find out where she’s at. There some sacrifices that were made, involving skipping out graduation, class time, etc.
The real reason to go: Quentin Jacobsen, the quester acknowledge the girl of dreams, Margo isn’t what she seems to be, an enigma in this case. Quentin also becomes self-aware and acknowledge his best friends’ characters.
Chapter 2 - Nice to Eat with You: Acts of Communion The novel Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen, in the scene where the Baker and Loski families come together for a sit-down dinner at the Loski's home for the first time, although they have been neighbors for years.
In the beginning of the dinner, it was mostly tense due to the fact that the Loskis had criticized Juli’s eggs and awkward. It continued to be so along with unnecessary comments, but after a discussion of the Baker’s brothers doing music, the atmosphere of the dinner changed to more a relaxed and regretful mood. Draanen wrote the family dinner this way to show the differences of social class between the two families and the misunderstanding they both have of each other. Both of the families had misunderstandings of Richard Baker’s disabled brother, living conditions, and misconceptions. During the meal, some of those issues have been cleared up, but there was still some criticism from Steven Loski regarding the situations of the Bakers. In the end, there was still understanding from the way they were living and had been peaceful throughout the
meal.
Chapter 3 - Nice to Eat with You: Acts of Vampires The essentials of the Vampire story is not just vampirism, it also involves loss of innocence, sex, exploitations, selfishness, temptation, and refusing to respect others’ autonomy. In vampire stories, the needs are always put over others even if it’s ugly, using others to get what they want, using others for their own desires, and destructing the youth/innocence and the beauty of others. In the film, Snow White and the Huntsman, Snow was portrayed as “a young virginal female” who was then stripped away from her virtue and innocence. The stepmother is portrayed as the “vampire” and or the “witch” whom destroyed Snow’s innocence and youth, putting her desire to be the “fairest of them all.”
Chapter 4 - If It’s Square, It’s a Sonnet “Sonnet 130” is form of Shakespearean Sonnet in which involves emotions and thoughts. The content reflects the form by its fourteen lines that are divided up by three quatrains and one couplet in the end of the poem or sonnet. Shakespearean Sonnet also involves a rhyming pattern or syllables. As Shakespeare is known for expressing his thoughts on love, in this sonnet he express a woman that he believes is beautiful although she may not seem like it to others or rather just unattractive to people, but for him there is something more than the lack of beauty from the woman.
Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare
My Mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight There in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak; yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground
Any yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
“Divers Doth Use, As I Have Heard And Know” by Sir Thomas Wyatt famously use the form of a Petrarchan sonnet that the octave is tied together and add a rhyme scheme the unify all together with a sestet. The sonnet forms almost a square like shape as it should be. The content reflects on the form by the emotions that are poured into the sonnet. Although, the sonnet doesn’t reveal of whom the poet is talking about, but it's safe to assume that the poet is speaking of men and their reactions and actions towards women.
Divers Doth Use, As I Have Heard And Know by Sir Thomas Wyatt
Divers doth use, as I have heard and know, “Divers” can be interpreted as men.
When that to change their ladies do begin, Wyatt states that the men changes their women as if they are objects that are easily replaced.
To mourn and wail, and never for to lin, Although, men weren’t allowed to show their emotions due to gender roles and expectations.
Hoping thereby to pease their painful woe. The poet demonstrate that these men show their emotions though they seem to overreact over the women they associate with.
And some there be, that when it chanceth so The women seem to be change or unpursued by the men they are with.
That women change and hate where love hath been, The men continue to overreact and start to go to other women instead of with their lovers. It would seem that they are conflicted with their feelings and commitment to stay together.
They call them false and think with words to win “They” or rather the men think of women otherwise, starts to distrusts them and decide to move on to new lovers or someone that they can be committed to.
The hearts of them which otherwhere doth grow.
But as for me, though that by chance indeed
Change hath outworn the favor that I had, Wyatt explained that he will not repeat nor do the similar actions or act on emotions like these men do.
I will not wail, lament, nor yet be sad,
Nor call her false that falsely did me feed, While doing the opposite that the men are doing or acting on, he will not treat women any different nor become upset with their change.
But let it pass, and think it is of kind
That often change doth please a woman's mind. “The White City” by Claude McKay is also a form of Shakespearean Sonnet with its quatrains then followed by a couplet in the last two lines. It follows a pattern that Shakespearean Sonnet should: abab cdcd efef gg. The content of the poem involves a lot of rage and hate towards a city in the quatrains. As by the title “White City”, white associates a lot with innocence and purity, but it's slowly washed away by the hate and ignorance of the city.
The White City by Claude McKay
I will not toy with it nor bend an inch In the first quatrain, McKay slowly began to express his anger from deep within his heart.
Deep in the secret chambers of my heart I muse my life-long hate, and without flinch In the city that he lives in, it’s still unclear of what or whom is his anger towards to? He becomes a part of his anger and seem to be comfortable with it.
I bear it nobly as I live my part.
My being would be a skeleton, a shell, Still not sure who he’s referring to, but it could mean the entire city as a whole, his anger becomes more visible.
If this dark Passion that fills my every mood,
And makes my heaven in the white world’s hell,He continues to be filled with hate for his city for what it seem that it’s corrupt from its purity which creates irony towards the title of the sonnet.
Did not forever feed me vital blood.
I see the mighty city through a mist-
The strident trains that speed the goaded mass,
The poles and spires and towers vapor kissed,
The fortressed port through which the great ships pass,
The tides, the wharves, the dens I contemplate,
Are sweet like wanton loves because I hate.
Chapter 5 - Now, Where Have I Seen Her Before? Intertextuality is an interactive dialogue between the old and new texts which enhances the reading experiences and comprehending the meanings of the texts. There’s no such things as an original work since there are many literary and non-literary works that branches out from novels to poems to songs, etc. In romance novels, for example John Green’s novels have always similar attributes of the main character/protagonist which is the dorky nobody who’s in love with [the most popular] girl in the school which can also be closely related to The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Another example would be of the movie Pocahontas and Avatar in which the female lead guides the male lead around their homelands and understand their culture/way of life. Lastly, the movie She’s All That and What a Girl Wants have similarities in which both female lead roles are “forced” to change their characteristics in order to fit in popular clique/society’s ideals.
Chapter 6 - When in Doubt, It’s from Shakespeare… Disney film The Lion Kings reflects Shakespeare’s Hamlet in terms of Scar representing Hamlet’s uncle who killed his father in order to take over his place as king. Mufasa represents the ghost of Hamlet’s father and Simba as Hamlet. When Simba discovered that Scar killed his father then plotting to kill him as well to take over the heir much alike Hamlet, both Simba and Hamlet avenged their father by killing their uncle and taking the rightful heir as theirs. The sequel of The Lion king also reflects on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet in which the Simba’s family and Scar’s family are in a feud like the Montagues and Capulets. Both children are banned from seeing each, but still go out of their way and meet in secret in order to be together. The overall themes of both films are of family which in the end they unite together and good vs. evil of Simba and Scar.
Chapter 7 - ...Or the Bible In “Araby” James Joyce used a couple of biblical allusions, the most common one that is seen especially with the “two great jars” represents Adam and Eve. The garden with apple tree represent the Garden of Eden in which Adam and Eve resides in. The fence could also be interpreted as God as the barrier between Mangan's sister and the unnamed person as a resistance to his desires like how God tells Eve to repent from her desire to eat the apple from the tree. Although, the unnamed person did not beyond the fence like Eve had with the apple, he notice loss of innocence and heartbreak from Mangan’s sister by the “two great jars.” The “two great jars” represent the unnamed person’s temptation to be with Mangan’s sister therefore committing a sin as said by the bible.
Chapter 8 - Hanseldee and Greteldum The film Shrek and the other films that follow reflects a lot on fairy tale even with its own twist of what happily ever ending is which it mostly reflects on. The first movie display the stereotypical damsel in distress who’s waiting on her true love kiss which parallels a lot of Princesses tales. Shrek mostly parallel with the fairy tale/Disney film The Sleeping Beauty in which Fiona is “sleeping” on her bed, waiting for her ‘Prince Charming” or in others an Ogre who’s fighting the evil witch/dragon in order to save the princess and live happily ever after. The irony of the film is that Prince Charming isn’t what he supposed to look like or act like one instead he’s an Ogre who actually just want his swamp back. It does however deepen my appreciation for this work because it’s a whole different twist on fairy tales and it takes on a different outlook on gender roles.
Chapter 9 - It’s All Greek to Me In the dark of the night, waves are crashing Into the shores, the sweet sound filled the air luring me into the waters, awaiting for my Presence. As I arrive closer to the boulders The sweet entrancing sound continues to gets louder And louder, singing me to a deep sleep.
Memory, symbol, and pattern affect the reading of literature by making it easier for readers to understand what’s going on in a literary work. While reading, readers begin to notice the trend or pattern in the devices that they recognize such as themes or symbols. When reading literature, readers tend to recall certain events or small parts from other parts of literature from what they’re reading currently. The recognition of patterns make it easier to read complicated literature by completely comprehending the intended message that withholds in the literary work. A time when my appreciation of a literary work was enhanced by understanding symbol and or pattern was when reading The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. …show more content…
The novel had allowed me to see in a different perspective on wealth, social class, and the ultimate American dream which eventually made me fully comprehend. It depicted on how the American dream can actually be deceitful, but it also shows how hard work can be determined as being successful.
Chapter 1 - Every Trip is a Quest (Except When It’s Not) The five aspects of QUEST are the quester, setting, intended reason, challenges and trials, and actual reason.
The quester is usually the protagonist who goes on a quest without actually knowing that they are in one. The setting or the place to go is where the quest is supposed to take place and or the destination. The reason to go is different from the real reason; it’s a plan to do something or go somewhere they want to be in order to accomplish their quest. The challenges and trials during their quest are obstacles they are forced to face, it also tests their skills and knowledge. The real reason to go on the quest is mostly self-knowledge, learning more of themselves and what they can do and how the rest of the world …show more content…
work. Paper Towns by John Green
The quester: a high school student in his senior year in love with a girl since childhood who then disappeared before prom and graduation.
A place to go: in order to find Margo Roth Spiegelman, the girl of his dreams whom disappeared, find clues that Margo have left to “find” her. He travels with his two best friends and Margo’s best friend to New York from Florida to find where she had disappeared to.
A stated reason to go there: not only to see if Margo is still alive and well, but also convince her to come back to Florida.
Challenges and trials: The clues that Margo left were difficult to figure out and sometimes she wasn’t at the place when they find out where she’s at. There some sacrifices that were made, involving skipping out graduation, class time, etc.
The real reason to go: Quentin Jacobsen, the quester acknowledge the girl of dreams, Margo isn’t what she seems to be, an enigma in this case. Quentin also becomes self-aware and acknowledge his best friends’ characters.
Chapter 2 - Nice to Eat with You: Acts of Communion The novel Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen, in the scene where the Baker and Loski families come together for a sit-down dinner at the Loski's home for the first time, although they have been neighbors for years.
In the beginning of the dinner, it was mostly tense due to the fact that the Loskis had criticized Juli’s eggs and awkward. It continued to be so along with unnecessary comments, but after a discussion of the Baker’s brothers doing music, the atmosphere of the dinner changed to more a relaxed and regretful mood. Draanen wrote the family dinner this way to show the differences of social class between the two families and the misunderstanding they both have of each other. Both of the families had misunderstandings of Richard Baker’s disabled brother, living conditions, and misconceptions. During the meal, some of those issues have been cleared up, but there was still some criticism from Steven Loski regarding the situations of the Bakers. In the end, there was still understanding from the way they were living and had been peaceful throughout the
meal.
Chapter 3 - Nice to Eat with You: Acts of Vampires The essentials of the Vampire story is not just vampirism, it also involves loss of innocence, sex, exploitations, selfishness, temptation, and refusing to respect others’ autonomy. In vampire stories, the needs are always put over others even if it’s ugly, using others to get what they want, using others for their own desires, and destructing the youth/innocence and the beauty of others. In the film, Snow White and the Huntsman, Snow was portrayed as “a young virginal female” who was then stripped away from her virtue and innocence. The stepmother is portrayed as the “vampire” and or the “witch” whom destroyed Snow’s innocence and youth, putting her desire to be the “fairest of them all.”
Chapter 4 - If It’s Square, It’s a Sonnet “Sonnet 130” is form of Shakespearean Sonnet in which involves emotions and thoughts. The content reflects the form by its fourteen lines that are divided up by three quatrains and one couplet in the end of the poem or sonnet. Shakespearean Sonnet also involves a rhyming pattern or syllables. As Shakespeare is known for expressing his thoughts on love, in this sonnet he express a woman that he believes is beautiful although she may not seem like it to others or rather just unattractive to people, but for him there is something more than the lack of beauty from the woman.
Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare
My Mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight There in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak; yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground
Any yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
“Divers Doth Use, As I Have Heard And Know” by Sir Thomas Wyatt famously use the form of a Petrarchan sonnet that the octave is tied together and add a rhyme scheme the unify all together with a sestet. The sonnet forms almost a square like shape as it should be. The content reflects on the form by the emotions that are poured into the sonnet. Although, the sonnet doesn’t reveal of whom the poet is talking about, but it's safe to assume that the poet is speaking of men and their reactions and actions towards women.
Divers Doth Use, As I Have Heard And Know by Sir Thomas Wyatt
Divers doth use, as I have heard and know, “Divers” can be interpreted as men.
When that to change their ladies do begin, Wyatt states that the men changes their women as if they are objects that are easily replaced.
To mourn and wail, and never for to lin, Although, men weren’t allowed to show their emotions due to gender roles and expectations.
Hoping thereby to pease their painful woe. The poet demonstrate that these men show their emotions though they seem to overreact over the women they associate with.
And some there be, that when it chanceth so The women seem to be change or unpursued by the men they are with.
That women change and hate where love hath been, The men continue to overreact and start to go to other women instead of with their lovers. It would seem that they are conflicted with their feelings and commitment to stay together.
They call them false and think with words to win “They” or rather the men think of women otherwise, starts to distrusts them and decide to move on to new lovers or someone that they can be committed to.
The hearts of them which otherwhere doth grow.
But as for me, though that by chance indeed
Change hath outworn the favor that I had, Wyatt explained that he will not repeat nor do the similar actions or act on emotions like these men do.
I will not wail, lament, nor yet be sad,
Nor call her false that falsely did me feed, While doing the opposite that the men are doing or acting on, he will not treat women any different nor become upset with their change.
But let it pass, and think it is of kind
That often change doth please a woman's mind. “The White City” by Claude McKay is also a form of Shakespearean Sonnet with its quatrains then followed by a couplet in the last two lines. It follows a pattern that Shakespearean Sonnet should: abab cdcd efef gg. The content of the poem involves a lot of rage and hate towards a city in the quatrains. As by the title “White City”, white associates a lot with innocence and purity, but it's slowly washed away by the hate and ignorance of the city.
The White City by Claude McKay
I will not toy with it nor bend an inch In the first quatrain, McKay slowly began to express his anger from deep within his heart.
Deep in the secret chambers of my heart I muse my life-long hate, and without flinch In the city that he lives in, it’s still unclear of what or whom is his anger towards to? He becomes a part of his anger and seem to be comfortable with it.
I bear it nobly as I live my part.
My being would be a skeleton, a shell, Still not sure who he’s referring to, but it could mean the entire city as a whole, his anger becomes more visible.
If this dark Passion that fills my every mood,
And makes my heaven in the white world’s hell,He continues to be filled with hate for his city for what it seem that it’s corrupt from its purity which creates irony towards the title of the sonnet.
Did not forever feed me vital blood.
I see the mighty city through a mist-
The strident trains that speed the goaded mass,
The poles and spires and towers vapor kissed,
The fortressed port through which the great ships pass,
The tides, the wharves, the dens I contemplate,
Are sweet like wanton loves because I hate.
Chapter 5 - Now, Where Have I Seen Her Before? Intertextuality is an interactive dialogue between the old and new texts which enhances the reading experiences and comprehending the meanings of the texts. There’s no such things as an original work since there are many literary and non-literary works that branches out from novels to poems to songs, etc. In romance novels, for example John Green’s novels have always similar attributes of the main character/protagonist which is the dorky nobody who’s in love with [the most popular] girl in the school which can also be closely related to The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Another example would be of the movie Pocahontas and Avatar in which the female lead guides the male lead around their homelands and understand their culture/way of life. Lastly, the movie She’s All That and What a Girl Wants have similarities in which both female lead roles are “forced” to change their characteristics in order to fit in popular clique/society’s ideals.
Chapter 6 - When in Doubt, It’s from Shakespeare… Disney film The Lion Kings reflects Shakespeare’s Hamlet in terms of Scar representing Hamlet’s uncle who killed his father in order to take over his place as king. Mufasa represents the ghost of Hamlet’s father and Simba as Hamlet. When Simba discovered that Scar killed his father then plotting to kill him as well to take over the heir much alike Hamlet, both Simba and Hamlet avenged their father by killing their uncle and taking the rightful heir as theirs. The sequel of The Lion king also reflects on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet in which the Simba’s family and Scar’s family are in a feud like the Montagues and Capulets. Both children are banned from seeing each, but still go out of their way and meet in secret in order to be together. The overall themes of both films are of family which in the end they unite together and good vs. evil of Simba and Scar.
Chapter 7 - ...Or the Bible In “Araby” James Joyce used a couple of biblical allusions, the most common one that is seen especially with the “two great jars” represents Adam and Eve. The garden with apple tree represent the Garden of Eden in which Adam and Eve resides in. The fence could also be interpreted as God as the barrier between Mangan's sister and the unnamed person as a resistance to his desires like how God tells Eve to repent from her desire to eat the apple from the tree. Although, the unnamed person did not beyond the fence like Eve had with the apple, he notice loss of innocence and heartbreak from Mangan’s sister by the “two great jars.” The “two great jars” represent the unnamed person’s temptation to be with Mangan’s sister therefore committing a sin as said by the bible.
Chapter 8 - Hanseldee and Greteldum The film Shrek and the other films that follow reflects a lot on fairy tale even with its own twist of what happily ever ending is which it mostly reflects on. The first movie display the stereotypical damsel in distress who’s waiting on her true love kiss which parallels a lot of Princesses tales. Shrek mostly parallel with the fairy tale/Disney film The Sleeping Beauty in which Fiona is “sleeping” on her bed, waiting for her ‘Prince Charming” or in others an Ogre who’s fighting the evil witch/dragon in order to save the princess and live happily ever after. The irony of the film is that Prince Charming isn’t what he supposed to look like or act like one instead he’s an Ogre who actually just want his swamp back. It does however deepen my appreciation for this work because it’s a whole different twist on fairy tales and it takes on a different outlook on gender roles.
Chapter 9 - It’s All Greek to Me In the dark of the night, waves are crashing Into the shores, the sweet sound filled the air luring me into the waters, awaiting for my Presence. As I arrive closer to the boulders The sweet entrancing sound continues to gets louder And louder, singing me to a deep sleep.