The Great Gatsby Book Report Project by Dylan Davis For my book report project I chose to do a graffiti wall for the book The Great Gatsby. I made a brick wall out of red poster board and drawn on lines for the bricks. I chose five words that I thought related to the book and spray painted them onto the wall to create a graffiti look. The five words I chose are party‚ dream‚ love‚ eyes‚ and death. Here are the reasons why I chose each of these individual words: Party: I chose the word party because
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Comparing the Jazz Age to The Great Gatsby False Values‚ Materialism‚ and Disillusionment in Fitzgerald’s Novel Fitzgerald’s novel the great gatsby reflects the adherence to false values‚ tendency towards materialism‚ and eventual disillusionment of America during the Jazz Age. The Jazz Age is well known as a decade of alluring glamour‚ stunning beauty‚ thrilling success‚ and glorious profit; however‚ there was an underlying coarseness to all this glitter. Amid the charm and magic was a certain
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man he was. He was a bully that used his social status and strength to control and boss people around him. Jay Gatsby on the other hand was a caring business man who had met Daisy in Louisville while he was in the war before she was married. Daisy promised him she would wait for him but ended up marring Tom Buchanan due to pressure from her family. Jay Gatsby always hoped Daisy and he would be together again in the future. He tried making
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Brian Cardenas Ms. Tobias English III GT-4th 12 January 2017 The Great Gatsby: Novel and Movie With Analysis The Great Gatsby is an extraordinary piece of work. This story covers up several themes such as money‚ love‚ and the American Dream. This story follows the life of Jay Gatsby who pretends to be someone he’s not to win back Daisy Buchanan‚ the girl of his dreams. Having the opportunity to read the book and watch the movie‚ there were several differences and similarities I observed. These similarities
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maximum intensity or is a major turning point in a plot. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald the major moment of intensity in the novel is when Gatsby finally talks to Daisy for the fist time in years. When they finally reconnect Gatsby feels like it was a “terrible mistake.”(87) The situation is awkward in every aspect. Gatsby is so uncomfortable to be with Daisy he breaks Nick’s clock while in a fluster of her presence. Gatsby although more noticeably uncomfortable in Daisy’s presence
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attributes‚ define the character traits portrayed within‚ “The Great Gatsby‚” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This novel introduces the reader to a young women named Daisy‚ as it examines her relationship with her husband Tom. Their marriage lacks a deeply connected love. The reader is lead to believe that Daisy wed Tom for mostly money . On the other hand‚ before Daisy met Tom‚ she was passionately in love with Jay Gatsby. However‚ Gatsby had little money and Daisy wanted to find a well-off man . Daisy
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In The Great Gatsby‚ Fitzgerald’s main innovation was to introduce a first person narrator and protagonist whose consciousness filters the story’s events. This device was not a total invention since a character through whose eyes and mind the central protagonist is discovered is to be found in two of Conrad’s books : Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim. As usual with this device‚ the main protagonist remains strange and shady. This technique reinforces the mystery of the characters. The second advantage
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Jay Gatsby is one of the most interesting and memorable males in fictional literature‚ even though he is not a dynamic and changing character during the novel. In fact‚ Jay Gatsby has changed little since he was a teenager. Born as James Gatz to poor farmers in North Dakota‚ he decided at an early age that he wanted more out of life than North Dakota could offer. He leaves home to find excitement and wealth. While lounging on the beach one day‚ he sees a yacht docked off the coast. He borrows a boat
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Through The Great Gatsby‚ Fitzgerald seems to communicate a message about people’s failure to accomplish their dreams—Nick‚ Gatsby‚ Tom‚ and Daisy all have ideas for the perfect life and none of them are able to achieve them. Deeply explore one character—his/her dreams‚ his/her dreams‚ his/her attempts to accomplish those dream‚ his/her reasons for failure‚ and the message that Fitzgerald might be communicating through this failure. The pursuit of dreams is the eternal topic for
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Published in 1925‚ The Great Gatsby became an immediate classic and propelled its author to fame. The novel captured the spirit of the "Jazz Age‚" a post−World War I era in upper−class America. However‚ Gatsby expresses more than the exuberance of the times. It depicts the restlessness and corruption that pervades the novel and "infects" the story and its hero too. Because the novel is not just about one man‚ James Gatz or Jay Gatsby‚ but about aspects of the human condition of an era‚ and themes
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