have results that can come back and affect the outcome of one’s life. This idea is supported in the literary works of Great Gatsby and Lord of the Flies‚ where the choices and actions of the characters caused them great pain. The words of L.M Montgomery in F.Scott Fitzgerald’s the Great Gatsby‚ a story of a man’s unfailing love for a woman. This story finds Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan as these lovers who were reconnected after what seems like an eternity. This reunion reignites old
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Gatsby strode gracefully alongside Daisy whose eyes were determinedly watching her white patent leather shoes as they hit the soft‚ sumptuous rug in the room’s foyer and carried her along the glowing red hallway to the ornate steel cage encasing the hotel’s elevator. The flame that once seemed to flicker between them had been snuffed out and was replaced with a painful muteness. With a deft movement of his arm Mr Gatsby slid open the cage and they stepped inside. At the pull of a lever the ground
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The possibility of attaining membership to the “rather distinguished secret society” in the 1920s filled many with the fantasy of obtaining wealth‚ status‚ and power (22). The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is set in the fictitious East Egg and West Egg of New York City in the 1920s. Nick Carraway‚ the narrator‚ explains his experiences with wealth and the wild and reckless lifestyle it brings. Through a series of scenes depicting reckless and impulsive behavior‚ Fitzgerald emphasizes the carelessness
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Topic Sentence: On symbol developed in The Great Gatsby is a green light. Developing Sentences: The green light symbolizes hope. On the night Nick Caraway came back from Daisy’s house he saw Jay Gatsby watching a green light in yearning‚ which suggests a desire Jay has. The green light was at the end of the dock in East Egg and Jay lives in the West Egg‚ which shows the distances between the two Eggs. Introduction of Evidence: Nick sees the longing Jay Gatsby has for the green light‚ which is highlighted
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The famous novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ The Great Gatsby‚ is a renown piece of American literature. This novel revolves around a rich‚ hopeful man by the name of Jay Gatsby who desires nothing more than to get back together with his old lover‚ Daisy. Daisy though‚ is already married to a wealthy man named Tom‚ and even though Tom is cheating on her with Myrtle‚ Daisy still loves him. Gatsby‚ having been born in a different class than Daisy‚ fears he may never be able to live the life he imagined
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Melody Akinduro ENG4U Ms.Jackson 8th of January 2012. The Journal Of The Great Gatsby JOURNAL ONE The great Gatsby book started with a man telling us his father advised him never to criticize anyone ‚ he said his father told him he should remember that all this people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had and his father thought him how to be reserved. He also have good manners and a well honourable character. Nick just graduated from yale university and he
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In the book‚ “The Great Gatsby” the readers are able to see how F. Scott Fitzgerald uses multiple characters to create his story. These characters were important because they not only entertain the people‚ but they also contributed to the overall theme. One of the themes Fitzgerald was trying to convey was how the American Dream is not attainable or achievable. Each character’s actions in this book contributed towards the theme whether their part was big or small. The character’s actions and how
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The Great Gatsby – Chapter 2. About half way between West Egg and New York the motor road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile‚ so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land.1 This is a valley of ashes2 — a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and‚ finally‚ with a transcendent effort‚ of men who move dimly and already crumbling through
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The Great Gatsby – Tom Richardson Fitzgerald makes me feel about Tom Buchanan in a negative light through what Tom does‚ says and what others say about him. The first time Nick Carroway meets Tom Buchanan in person in Scott Fitzgerald’s novel “The Great Gatsby” we are shown a very clear impression of him. Nick described Tom as a “violent body”; already this shows Tom is a man of action who lets his actions speak for him. Nick continues to describe Tom by saying he is “always leaning aggressively
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is something we are well aware of‚ but we pretend like it does not affect us as humans. During the Great Depression people would refuse to get relief in fear that they would be seen as poor or needy‚ even today the word “poverty” is said many times but no one seems to find a solution to this ongoing problem. After reading The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald‚ it appears that the solution upper class has found is to act as if poverty
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