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    Gatsby and Reader Comparative Essay The values of each age are reflected in the texts which are composed in them. Both The Great Gatsby and The Reader are written with the values of each age in mind. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby examines the culture of the 1920s and the context that surrounded Fitzgerald whilst writing the novel. Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader is an investigation into the post World War II generation of Germany and the views from each generation. The Reader is written

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    Paizanis Gatsby Response Paper First person narrators are characters within the story telling the events of the plot from their perspective. Oftentimes‚ these characters deviate from the truth or have mental connections that limit their ability to tell the story inaccurately. When a story is inaccurate and not always consistent‚ the reader is forced to question the reliability of the narrator. In the novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ the character Nick is a first person narrator and

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    “Material Without Being Real” Essay Response The essay we read confused me‚ I didn’t get what photographs and pictorialists had to do with The Great Gatsby. I didn’t see the relevance of their views. Pictures may have small things to do with The Great Gatsby‚ but I don’t think there was enough to ramble on and on for nine pages. I feel as though by the end of the essay they weren’t even talking about The Great Gatsby at all‚ but photos and how they show the unseen. There were parts of the

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    otherwise might. Avoid plot summary. The Great Gatsby takes place in 1922 following Nick Carraway‚ a bond salesman. Nick lives in a house in West Egg‚ an area for the‚ “newly rich‚” citizens. Next door is his a man he knows little about named Gatsby. Across the bay from where Nick and Gatsby live is a location called East Egg where the‚ “old rich‚” live. Nick’s cousin Daisy Buchanan and her husband live at East

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    "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a widely considered masterpiece of American literature. Set in Long island‚ 1922‚ The Great Gatsby portrays a time in which massive war-born wealth and cheap liquor give birth to the great American party period‚ where booze and bobbed hair reign supreme in newly rich New York. This sets the scene for the tragic love story between " The golden girl"‚ Daisy Buchanan and war hero‚ James Gatz (Gatsby). The Great Gatsby is an interesting novel due to the ideas

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    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 throughout

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    The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby is a novel set in the 1920’s when “gin was the national drink and sex was the national obsession.” The Jazz age‚ as some may call the ‘20’s‚ was right after the years of World War One. The novel begins with Nick Carraway telling his audience of some advice about not criticizing others his father had given him when he was younger. “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one‚ just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had”

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    Patrice Flowers Professor Arzola English 1302 Friday‚ February 22‚ 2013 Critical Analysis of Nora Ephron “The Boston Photographs” Nora Ephron author of “The Boston Photographs” reaches out to her readers by touching their emotions by some gripping photographs. She claims “Photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism‚” this theory is proven in her writing. In Ephron essay‚ she discusses the photographs that Stanley Foreman took of an attempted rescue that turned to a devastating

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    Reader-response criticism is a school of literary theory that focuses on the reader (or "audience") and their experience of a literary work‚ in contrast to other schools and theories that focus attention primarily on the author or the content and form of the work. Although literary theory has long paid some attention to the reader’s role in creating the meaning and experience of a literary work‚ modern reader-response criticism began in the 1960s and ’70s‚ particularly in America and Germany‚ in

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    characterization is the author’s way of giving the reader clues as to how a character is really like. Such clues may be describing how the character dresses‚ letting the reader hear what the character says‚ or revealing the character’s private thoughts. Example: “Gatsby‚ his hands still in his pockets‚ was reclining against the mantelpiece in a strained counterfeit of perfect ease‚ even of boredom” (The Great Gatsby‚ 86). Function: The nervous appearance of Gatsby as he meets Daisy suggests a different

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