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    Everyone deals with different struggles and challenges in their life. In The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn‚ The Great Gatsby‚ and The Catcher In The Rye they all demonstrate personal struggles that most people can relate to. I can relate to all three of the books because they all have relatable challenges that you face daily in your life. In The Adventures Of Huckleberry FinnHuck is struggling with morals and whether or not to go against everything that he has been taught. “I was sorry to hear

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    In the novel “The Great Gatsby” Fitzgerald shows us the hopes and dreams of the characters throughout the novel‚ but for some of the characters their dreams soon turned into nightmares leaving them without the accomplishment they hoped for. Jay Gatz also known as Gatsby ‚ a rich handsome man who was known for his extravagant and outrageous parties he threw every weekend ‚ desired and almost desperate to find the women he once loved. Daisy‚ She was gatsby’s college sweetheart‚ the love of his life

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    American Dream The Great Gatsby‚ a book relative to many different time periods and has shed light on many with its realistic tragedy. What makes this book great is its’ excellent depiction of life in the Roaring Twenties. These themes in the book parallel many generations and topics brought up in World and US History. One of the more relevant and apparent themes is corruption of the American Dream. As in the real world‚ the characters in The Great Gatsby find out that the American Dream is not

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    English 10 3/2/12 The American Illusion  The American dream is an idea that has been around since the start of this country. The dream has many different variations that could one would want. In the last century‚ however‚ the dream seems to involve one becoming a successful individual with all the money and popularity one desires. In The Great Gatsby‚ Jay Gatsby sets out to create himself with no money to his name and no plan for his dream. By looking at Gatsby’s unachievable dream in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s

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    president of the United States of America. Every child grows up with a dream in their head of who they want to be when they grow up. While for many people‚ this dream fades throughout their lifetime or becomes something more realistic‚ some will stop at nothing to become what they have always wanted to be and obtain what they have always desired. For the characters of The Great Gatsby‚ a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ these dreams manifest themselves as a man who has obtained true love‚ a wealthy woman

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    Fitzgerald not only condemns the American Dream but sets the death and downfall of the American Dream as the primary theme of the novel. Throughout the novel Fitzgerald deliberately makes all characters with money appear to be unhappy‚ dysfunctional‚ snobbish‚ and immoral‚ thus contradicting the stereotyped idea of the American Dream. The American Dream that includes a happy family‚ living together‚ having lots of money and living happily ever after. The unhappiness of the wealthy class is portrayed

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    In the Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald’s cynicism about the american dream in the 1920s is represented by the characters Gatsby‚ Daisy‚ and Nick. America was changing because in the 1920s an era of unexpected prosperity and material excess. Decayed social and moral values. Rising stock market equals lots of newly wealthy people spending money at unprecedented levels. These changes affected fitzgerald’s belief because he believed people had grown cynical‚ greedy‚ and obsessed with the empty pursuit

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    The American dream stays as a picture for desire‚ achievement‚ and euphoria. In any case‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby‚ reviews the American dream from a substitute perspective‚ one that uncovers understanding into the people who twist these models to their own specific self-important dreams. Fitzgerald renders Jay Gatsby as a man who takes the Dream too far‚ and winds up perceptibly unfit to perceive his counterfeit presence of riches from reality. This ’intriguing’ American novel depicts

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    to all of their questions. Jay Gatsby and Blanche Dubois in The Great Gatsby and A Streetcar Named Desire‚ respectfully‚ give away everything they have in order to attain what they believe to be the ultimate form of happiness: the American Dream The American dream is a notion that states that anyone can achieve what they desire if they simply work hard enough for it. However‚ when speaking of the American Dream the question arises “Can anyone achieve the American Dream no matter their circumstances

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    right for African Americans to be slaves. Intellectual and Moral Education-Huck doesn’t trust the morals and views of society that treats him like an outcast; gets abused. Huck learns through experience about society‚ and his growing relationship with Jim‚ lead Huck to question many of the teachings that he has received‚ especially regarding race and slavery. More than once‚ we see Huck choose to “go to hell” rather than go along with the rules and follow what he has been taught... huck is especially

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