Huang Lin Ms. Pesce AP English: The Great Gatsby Mid-Book Response Choose the claim you agree with and prove it by writing a three page response. The great romance always exists with the true love regardless of how much obstacles people will encounter and how much contribution they will give. The great romance can facilitate human beings to overcome the gap between race‚ social status and cultural difference. Love will also become the significant motivation for people to pursue success and reputation
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Critical Analysis of Transformers the Movie Chesley Baird ENG 225: Introduction to Film Kristy Nelson November 20‚ 2012 Critical Analysis of Transformers the Movie There is an old saying that there is an 8-year-old child inside every person‚ "Transformers" is just the movie to bring out the kid in everyone. Big‚ loud and full of testosterone-fuelled car fantasies‚ Michael Bay’s actioner hits a new peak for CGI work‚ showcasing spectacular chases and animated transformation sequences seamlessly
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version of The Great Gatsby directed by Baz Luhrmann is a key example of this common issue‚ as the film is an adaption of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel. The film attempts to depict the events of the 1920’s while demonstrating the deconstruction of morals and ethics as many focused on economic and social gain instead. The film takes place in New York and Long Island‚ home to the rich and fabulous‚ where the people spend hours fussing about how they are perceived socially. The Great Gatsby is an epic
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2013 film The Great Gatsby‚ directed by Baz Luhrmann and based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s original iconic novel‚ made a splash amongst movie-goers. It earned itself a profit of over $90 million‚ with the expenses for the production of the movie coming to a grand total of $145 million Australian Dollars. The possibly profligate sum of money put into the movie undoubtedly reflected the extravagant visuals and the immensity of the sets‚ costumes and cast of the movie. Luhrmann had great expectations and
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The Great Gatsby After reading "The Great Gatsby” written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and watching the film directed by Jack Clayton‚ I noticed a few plot‚ character‚ and theme changes. As I was watching the movie I began to ask myself why did Jack Clayton take this event out or why did he add in this particular event? Was it for the sake of time or the fact that it was not an important part in the book? So I began to write notes and started to compare the great novel to the film. The novel The Great
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as though rich and famous people are larger- than-life and virtually impossible to touch‚ almost as if they were a fantasy? In The Great Gatsby‚ set in two wealthy communities‚ East Egg and West Egg‚ Fitzgerald describes Gatsby as a Romantic‚ larger- than-life‚ figure by setting him apart from the common person. Fitzgerald sets Gatsby in a fantasy world that‚ based on illusion‚ is of his own making. Gatsby’s possessions start to this illusion. He lives in an extremely
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Jeremy Wu Eng073 3-4-13 Great American Novel What book should be consider as the great American novel? The Great Gatsby is a book that should be consider as the great American novel because F. Scott Fitzgerald lived through the 1920’s and he pull his own life experience in the book to make it more realistic than other novels. And the novel talks about the American dream‚ which you can start from scratch and becoming rich. The writing style of this book is very creative and have a lot of
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Modernism is a cultural movement in which everything from social life to our beliefs begins to lack tradition and consistency to previous generations due to the ever changing world. The Great Gatsby‚ written by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ is a modern work written in the 1920s‚ depicting new ideas of rebellious behavior‚ luxury‚ and desire for wealth and status. This decade is often known as the “Roaring Twenties” because the economy rose due to the
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For my book report‚ I chose to read The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is a novel set in the twenties when the American economy was soaring (SparkNotes…). I choose this book because I had it in my bookshelf for a long time‚ but never found time to read it. I had no expectations of this book because I had never heard anything about it‚ and the summary on the back was un-descriptive. In this paper I will accurately and specifically go into the characters of the book‚ and present the themes
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