The Great Gatsby I: All throughout grade school and even high school‚ my teachers‚ parents‚ and even friends told me not to take the easy way out when it comes to books. Always read the book before the movie. I usually took the easy way out‚ watched the movie‚ and then skim the book. After doing this project I see what everyone was talking about. The book is much better than the movie‚ it gives you more of a sense of what is going on‚ a greater sense of when the story takes place‚ and it gives the
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Lanzafama English III 22 March 2014 The Great Gatsby Movie Review This movie does not represent the America I live in. There are some blatant similarities such as the scattered lights of New York. However‚ most of American culture has changed since the time period depicted in the film. Vehicles and phones have evolved drastically‚ people have established more respectable morals (“guy code”)‚ and polo is not as popular of a sport as its shown in the movie. Today‚ gas prices are through the roof
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heavens. An “unestablished land” of profound natural beauty and limitless opportunity. In snuck the “american dream” with its corrupted social hierarchy and societal standards. The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald is a devastating romance novel on the surface‚ although with every page it becomes clear that the novel is not only about a man trying to win the affections of the woman of his dreams‚ but also a cynical analysis of the distorted American Dream and societies greed for money. Fitzgerald
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The outsiders was a good book and movie‚ although it had many similarities and differences. A difference is in the book it says that Pony-boy gets a cut on his head but in the movie he gets no injury. Johnny was the one that was getting hurt like he got hurt when he went into the burning church to save the kids and piece of the burning building dropped on his back. But pony boy never got no injury in the movie. A similarity that happened in the book and movie would be that Johnny and Dallas both
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Italian writer Mario Puzo wrote The Godfather in 1920. In 1972‚ the book was made into a movie. Part two followed in 1974‚ and part three in 1990. The plot follows the feuds between five big New York mafia families. Compared to the movie‚ the book had many more side stories featuring supporting characters. Of note is how the novel version had an epilogue that the movie completely ignored. Although there are some changes and flaws‚ the 1974 film adaptation of the book has a similar plot and is a very
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In the novels‚ “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald and “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston‚ the authors follow the central characters in their struggle to achieve their hopes and dreams. In Fitzgerald’s novel‚ Nick Carraway‚ narrates his growing knowledge of the central character‚ Jay Gatsby‚ being a bystander to Gatsby’s venture for Daisy Buchanan’s love. In Hurston’s novel‚ the main character Janie fails to grapple what she truly wants for herself as she is thrown into abusive
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The story of The Great Gatsby is one filled with love and tragedy. While the movie has many similarities to the book‚ there are some very noticeable differences between the two. Although the film and book are similar‚ the movie ended up focusing too much on the glitz and glam of it all with out of place music and important scene changes‚ and seemed to lose some of the key parts and aspects of the book. It is pretty clear that the music wasn’t appropriate for the time period. It was the jazz age
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Another similarity between The Great Gatsby and “I‚ Too‚ Sing America” is their usage of symbolism to portray the corruption of the American Dream. In The Great Gatsby‚ the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg which are painted on an old billboard sign are described as eyes that “brood on over the solemn dumping ground” that is the valley of ashes. These eyes symbolize the eyes of God‚ looking over everything and judging American society for its decline of moral values due to the greed and pursuit of pleasure
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One of the most important differences between the movie and the book was in the scene where grandmother and Burno’s father interacted. Their relationship seems a lot stronger in the book and has more depth to it. Also‚ we see that grandmothers dislike for the Nazi’s was emphasized more in the books‚ but Bruno’s father is more tolerant of his mother’s views showing he actually cares for her. This is evident in the quote from the book‚ “‘Now mother‚’ said father in a tolerant voice. ‘You know this
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role as it can mold an individual into constantly striving to change their life into a more beneficial future. In the two novels Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ by Zora Hurston‚ and The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ the main characters develop as they attempt to achieve happiness for a better life. Although both character’s pasts influence their route to happiness‚ Gatsby focuses primarily on attempting to recreate the life he had‚ while Janie uses her past as motivation to change her life for
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