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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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    Gatsby lives an illusion that his wealth will lead to satisfaction and friendship. Gatsby has people all around him‚ going to his parties‚ yet no one truly knows him. Born a poor man and son of a farmer‚ James Gatz desires living the "American dream". Because of this dream‚ he creates a false Identity‚ Jay Gatsby‚ "So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old boy would be likely to invent‚ and to this conception he was faithful to the end"(104). He wastes his life trying to

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    Cheyenne Briner English 12A Mrs. Schuetz 28 November 2012 Valuable Lessons The movie‚ The Great Debators starring Denzel Washington‚ was about a black debate team traveling from city to city and/or town to town to compete with other debate teams. It took place in Marshall‚ Texas‚ home to Wiley College‚ where‚ in 1935-36‚ Professor Melvin Tolson coaches the debate team to a nearly-undefeated season that sees the first debate between U.S. students from white and Negro colleges and ends with an

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    The Great Gatsby Chapter IV: Revealing Gatsby’s mysterious past Main points: 1. The list of Gatsby’s guest 2. Gatsby career 3. The story of Jay Gatsby 4. Who is Meyer Wolfshiem 5. The letter 6. The story of Gatsby and Daisy in the past I‚ Summary: Nick writes a list of all people that attended Gatsby’s parties Nick has a plan with Gatsby that they will go for lunch by Gatsby’s car Gatsby tells Nick his background as they drive to the city At the lunch place

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    The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald takes place in the 1920s‚ otherwise known as the Roaring 20s‚ or the Jazz Age. The antagonist‚ Nick Carroway‚ moves next to Jay Gatsby‚ a wealthy “old money” class man. Nick moved to West Eggs‚ a middle-upper class town bordering East Egg. Nick and Gatsby are frequent partygoers‚ especially to Gatsby’s owned parties. The basic premise is that Gatsby is after Daisy‚ Nick’s cousin. In this novel‚ Fitzgerald portrays the new money class as having a bad reputation

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    unattainable; thus‚ one may often compromise or modify his dream in order for it to match or perhaps justify the practical. This imperfect reality generates an unattainable dream. Jay Gatsby’s disillusionment in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby permits Gatsby to imagine that which will never exist. When his reality and fantasy collide in such a way‚ his fantasy perishes‚ and additional conflicted dreams and imperfect reality ensue. Gatsby’s passion is an exercise in futility

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    In Jack Clayton’s film adaptation of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ the director uses several visual techniques to emphasize and heighten the illusion of the American dream. These visual techniques include: Framing‚ color‚ lighting & space. The most interesting type of framing repeated al throughout the film is the use of mirrors in trapping the characters in their surreal reflection. The director used this technique in more than one scenes‚ nevertheless this framing was used when Gatsby

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    want. However there are others who fall in love for money and not for the person itself. Society has been influenced by a capitalist world‚ where the most important is to become rich‚ become wealthy and part of the elitist people. In the novel The Great Gatsby‚ F.Scott Fitzerald criticizes the American society of the 1920´s for its emphasis on money‚ superficial relationships and obsession over class. Some characters in the novel are in love not with other characters but with their social status.

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    Revenge‚ Sometimes Better Left Alone Society perceives revenge to be a one-way street to get back at someone‚ where only the single person ends up getting hurt. In Great Expectations‚ Charles Dickens exemplifies revenge as a devious act that causes multiple people to get hurt. Miss Havisham received a broken heart on her wedding day‚ and ever since‚ she has been scheming a way to get back at the male gender. The likes of Miss Havisham and Orlick are set on exacting their revenge on someone

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    Write about some of the ways Fitzgerald tells the story in Chapter 1. Fitzgerald uses different narrative techniques to tell the story in chapter 1. Most notable: The setting‚ Fitzgerald uses high level description on the various settings. The narrator‚ Nick Carroway is the narrator and therefore the only viewpoint the reader has. Finally‚ the characterisation of some characters is very strong which helps tell the story in chapter 1 and give a starting judgement of these characters. Firstly

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