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    Great Gatsby Essay Please select a topic of your own choosing‚ or one of the options below‚ in a 5 paragraph essay. The essay is due on Monday April 8th and will be worth 100 points. Each paragraph should have two quotes to support your argument‚ with proper citation as well. Remember that a good thesis does not state something obvious- it proposes something that someone could theoretically disagree with‚ but that you prove with your strong arguments. Nick takes great pride in his honesty

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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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    It is all useless. It is like chasing the wind." (Ecclesiastes 2:26). The "it" in this case‚ F Scott Fitzgerald’s groundbreaking novel The Great Gatsby‚ refers to the exhaustive efforts Gatsby undertakes in his quest for life: the life he wants to live‚ the so-called American Dream. The novel is Fitzgerald’s vessel of commentary and criticism of the American Dream. As he paints a vivid portrait of the Jazz Age‚ Fitzgerald defines this Dream‚ and through Gatsby’s downfall‚ expresses the futility and

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    lived in a world where dreams are exposed as illusions; a world in which unfeeling men such as Tom receive love from women who are longed for by dreamers such as me. Everything I told my trustworthy friend Nick‚ were lies. I was embarrassed about my past and family’s poverty. I was killed by

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    The Great Gatsby is a novel that is treasured as a renewable book in American literature collections. Read among a variety of age groups‚ it holds testament to its honorary title. The missive of the how the pursue of American dream can lead to consequences and decoration are not only evident in the star characters‚ but in the relevance of modernity‚ drama‚ and composition in F. Scott- Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The Great Gatsby is not a story about Jay Gatsby. It is a story about the green light

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    The Great Gatsby: a linguopoetic analysis of extract 1‚ chapter 1. While reading the given extract for the first time‚ we may think that it is just the description of landscape. Nick Carraway is describing the area where he lives‚ calling it “one of the strangest communities in North America”. To support this idea of strangeness he uses a number of lexical means and synonyms. Thus‚ he defines the island as “slender” and “riotous”‚ attributes that are normally used in connection with some animate

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    In his novel the Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald creates Gatsby as a character who becomes great. His life being as just an ordinary‚ lower-class‚ citizen‚ yet Gatsby still has a dream of becoming wealthy man. After meeting Daisy‚ he has a reason to strive to become prominent. Throughout his life‚ Gatsby gains the title of truly being great. Even before Gatsby is introduced‚ he is hinted at being out of the ordinary. The first evidence of this is when Nick says‚ "Gatsby turned out alright at the

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    the past.” this quote from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald completely encompases the entirety of the novel of which it concludes. The meaning behind it serves its purpose as a message for the Modernist novel’s audience as well as a lesson for the intricate characters trapped in their pasts. The quote ends the novel saying that people want to reclaim an idealistic past‚ or a pure moment or memory‚ but when this desire for the past turns into an obsession‚ it leads to destruction. Gatsby believes

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    rich husbands. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ the reader is shown how adultery was normal when Tom has an open affair with Myrtle. Through Daisy’s horrible marriage with Tom‚ Gatsby’s obsession with Daisy‚ and Gatsby’s need for wealth‚ the reader can see that the value of this book is to be aware of and to protect yourself from the blinding power of love and how it can push someone away further from reality.

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    0The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India The Great Gatsby: A Rich Man in India Reasoning for title – story is similar to Great Gatsby. He’s trying to interview the richest man in India‚ but his reputation is very contradicting – fraud or the truth? Tells his story about childhood and how his dad was considered a fraud‚ then he built up the school after his father stepped down. Originally he wanted to do things with cigars‚ then it went South and now he has a real cigar business

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