JAY GATSBY. THE FAILUTE OF THE AMERICAN DREAM Jay Gatsby‚ the main character of the novel‚ is a self-made successful man who tries to prove that one can achieve wealth through determination and hard work. He spends all his energy and time to capture the American dream. Coming from a poor and unsuccessful family‚ and being the son of “shiftless and unsuccessful farm people”(p. 63)‚ Gatsby overcomes his origin and social barriers and tries to make the best of his personality‚ working hard on his
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there are plentiful positive impacts of social media‚ that many people do not even come to realize‚ because they usually just see the negative impacts. Social media has much more good‚ than bad in it. According to Sarah Lee Katz from CNN "On the whole‚ teens said that they feel that social media has a more positive than negative impact on their social and emotional lives." (Katz) Social network sites spread information faster than any other media. (procon.org) 1.4 billion people use facebook world
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aspect of life. Certain characters in The Great Gatsby shared the same thinking of the way of life when I was younger. Jay Gatsby‚ formally known as James Gatz‚ is a prime example. From the moment the reader is introduced to
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David Trask once said‚ commenting on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby that "The Great Gatsby is about many things‚ but it is inescapably a general critique of the ’American Dream’ and also of the ’agrarian myth’ - a powerful demonstration of their invalidity for Americans of Fitzgerald’s generation and after." Fitzgerald defiantly breaks down the societal boundaries of the 1920’s and creates a new societal example. Although the country was rooted in the American Dream‚ or what they thought was
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Citations in APA style. (What citations?) Reaction to: Filipinos in the 21st Century By Mark Raymond Ferrer Thesis Statement: Change is inevitable and unavoidable‚ but we can choose how strongly we are affected and how we react to such change. I felt that the article “Filipinos in the 21st century” was a bit too sour. The author focuses on lambasting the Filipino of today‚ giving emphasis only the bad things that effects whilst forgetting the good that has also come from them. Though it
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for the first time. I was 12 years old and I got my first solo piece. The moment my hands touched the brand new music sheet and speech‚ my chest lifted up as my teeth grew in sight with pride. I was going to perform “Heart” from the Broadway musical‚ Damn Yankees. The level of excitement brewing within me exploded as my anticipation excelled for the upcoming performance. I thought I would immediately rush the stage and began belting out the tunes of the song‚ amazing the audience with my brilliant
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The characters is this story are jay Gatsby and walter chrysler the founder of Chrysler automotive company.This story takes place in New York City.The action begins when I meet Jay Gatsby and I realized how interested he is in car and the automotive industry.Then‚I tell Jay that I’m the inventor of chrysler. Next we started speaking about cars. Gatsby started telling me about his amazing car collection he has in west egg where he currently lives. Gatsby told me he has never owned a Chrysler car
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James Gatz is motivated to become Jay Gatsby through his ambition to be rich. Because of his greedy aspirations‚ James Gatz believes he can find happiness through money‚ so he creates an alternate ego to obtain his goals. Gatsby believes a name change is the first step to obtain the image he wishes to portray. In Gatsby’s teenage years‚ he notices a yacht‚ and on the way there‚ he “was already Jay Gatsby” (Fitzgerald 98). Gatsby wants to live the American Dream‚ and he will do whatever it takes to
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life Reflected in the Character of Jay Gatsby? After conducting a through investigation on the author of the Great Gatsby‚ Scott Fitzgerald‚ one may say that the protagonist of this novel is a very clore representation of the author‚ himself. There are numerous and meaningful similarities between Jay Gatsby and Scott Fitzgerald’s life‚ and all of them are far from being coincidence. Their similarities begin in their background. Scott Fitzgerald and Jay Gatsby are from middle class families and
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In Willow Bunch on Stone Hill there was a family‚ which included Maida‚ Will‚ Winnie and Nathan her uncle. Nathan was a bachelor and had been a teacher but‚ wanted to become a farmer. Maida wondered why Nathan has never been married. She asked her mother why he has never been married and she told her about the skating party in November. Nathan and Eunice attended the party together and were very much in love. Eunice and her sister Delia Sykes went to go for a skate into the darkness towards the east
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