...The Great Gatsby is considered one of the greatest American classics written. The story of Great Gatsby is so full of emotion and details, that convey what is happening,without the use of dialogue. One of the most powerful descriptive storytelling techniques that Fitzgerald uses to set, portray, and bring out the feeling and mood of a scene is the weather. The weather can be very impactful not only on the physical obstacles characters might face, but also can portray the mood of what is happening. For example a thunderstorm might depict that something bad may happen, or it can reference that characters might get into a fight. Snow can show something might be calm, peaceful, and pure or it could show that there are “cold” feeling between characters or convey the feeling of nothingness. Fitzgerald uses several descriptions of weather throughout the novel that help to set the tone and direction with which a scene is going....
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...The Great Gatsby In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a man anxiously characterized by a girl he is madly in love and obsessed with. Weather takes a big draw and symbol in the book which brings along nerves, happiness, and reminders of the love and awkwardness between Daisy and Gatsby. The first time weather really becomes a symbol is the day that Daisy agrees for tea at Nick's house. “The day agreed on pouring rain.” The narrator states at the beginning of chapter 5. The rain and fog across the grass and through the air represents the nervousness that Gatsby has for reconnecting with Daisy after five years. Gatsby has always loved Daisy and revolves his life around her. When Daisy arrives at the house the weather is still going strong. As the day goes on and Gatsby makes his appearance and the weather slowly begins to clear up. “The rain cooled about half past three to a damp mist through which occasional thin drops swam like dew.” Now that the two have adjusted to each other the weather is expressing how there is not as many nerves....
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...1) Gatsby probably made his money through bootlegging illegal liquor. He has also obviously been involved in other illegal money-making activities with Meyer Wolfsheim. Even with his illegal activity, Fitzgerald tires to paint Gatsby in a positive light as a true American rags-to-riches story. 2) Dr. T.J. Eckleburg’s eyes loom over the Valley of Ashes. His disapproving eyes look down on the characters and symbolize the overall errors of their lives. Gatsby’s corruption and illegal activity, Tom and Myrtle’s affair, etc. His frowning eyes also say that Americans have lost their values and turned solely to capitalism. American values during this time were much like billboard itself, old and crumbling. 3) I think that Gatsby is a foolish man...
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...A novel or story must have a suitable environment in order for the story’s plot to be strong. Foster states, "landscape and architecture and weather...merged as neatly with mood and tone to set a story in motion" (Foster 116). Taking the well-known childhood nursery Jack and Jill, they story begins with Jack and Jill traveling up a hill to initially receive water. During the process, Jack falls down the hill which results in the destruction of his crown. Since the environment contributes to the conflict If the environment were to change into a flat landscape the conflict would not have occurred. Thus, resulting in a weak storyline. Changing the landscape and weather of this nursery will fade the vision, and mood, that the author is trying to emit to the reader. Ultimately, the environment of text builds the...
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...Nick-An Honest Man In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, at the end of chapter 3 the speaker Nick states “I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.” In this chapter Nick attends his first party at the Gatsby residence and this is when he actually meets Gatsby face to face. Almost right off the bat there were rumors flying about Gatsby and weather he had killed a man or not. The interaction in the library with Nick, Jordan and the library man was very interesting. The skepticism of weather the books were real or not, made it seem like there was something suspicious going on. At one point in the party Gatsby and Jordan go off alone for about an hour. The car wreck in the ditch after Nick was leaving also had an air of mystery. Nick tells the story about Jordan and her lying about her tennis tournament a while back. All of these events lead up to nick claiming that he is one of the few honest people he has ever known. I agree with him, I believe up to this point he is one of the most honest people in the book. Everyone up to this point seems to present themselves as being attractive and having all the qualities of a good human being, but they all seem to also have an underlying air of fishiness and mystery to them. For Gatsby there are the questions of his past and how he really attained his wealth. There are the questions of Jordan and how honest she could really be if she lied about the tennis tournament. Tom and Daisy alike are both extremely dishonest...
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...Themes Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work. The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s On the surface, The Great Gatsby is a story of the thwarted love between a man and a woman. The main theme of the novel, however, encompasses a much larger, less romantic scope. Though all of its action takes place over a mere few months during the summer of 1922 and is set in a circumscribed geographical area in the vicinity of Long Island, New York, The Great Gatsby is a highly symbolic meditation on 1920s America as a whole, in particular the disintegration of the American dream in an era of unprecedented prosperity and material excess. Fitzgerald portrays the 1920s as an era of decayed social and moral values, evidenced in its overarching cynicism, greed, and empty pursuit of pleasure. The reckless jubilance that led to decadent parties and wild jazz music—epitomized in The Great Gatsby by the opulent parties that Gatsby throws every Saturday night—resulted ultimately in the corruption of the American dream, as the unrestrained desire for money and pleasure surpassed more noble goals. When World War I ended in 1918, the generation of young Americans who had fought the war became intensely disillusioned, as the brutal carnage that they had just faced made the Victorian social morality of early-twentieth-century America seem like stuffy, empty hypocrisy. The dizzying rise of the stock market in the aftermath of the war led to a sudden, sustained...
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...techniques are employed by F Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby (1925) and by Ian McEwan in Atonement (2001) to express the loneliness of their characters. In these books, isolation dominates the mood and events of the story; however, the loneliness of the characters often reflects the cultural restrictions of their historical setting. Arguably, the motif of social change and tension also impacts the moods of the books, to a lesser extent. In the Great Gatsby, the moral decay of the 1920s is epitomized by the juxtaposed valley of ashes and the Eggs, while in Atonement, the sweltering weather of Part One could be to illustrate the tension simmering between characters and the impending change apparent in wider society, for example...
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...The Great Gatsby : Investigating the novel refers to links on www.crossref-it.info Who might we want to criticise in this novel? Of whom might Nick be critical? Do they fit the criteria of not having ‘the advantages that you’ve had’? Do you assume that the ‘advantages’ are monetary? What other kinds of advantage might there be? ‘he meant a great deal more than that.’ What more do you think Nick’s father meant? Could the idea of criticism be extended to include literary criticism or interpretation? Look more closely at the characters of Daisy and Tom. At the end of the novel, Nick comments that they are ‘careless people’. Can you find any evidence showing them to be careless or corrupt? Does this comment extend to Jordan or Nick himself? Consider the structure of this chapter – how does Nick order his recollections and his thoughts here? What narrative devices does he use? Investigating Chapter 2 List the different aspects of Chapter 2 which are concerned with religion. What are the differences between the party at Tom’s flat and the other parties in the novel? Nick observes several betrayals in this chapter – which do you find the most shocking and why? ‘I knew he was below me….But if I hadn’t met Chester, he’d of got me sure.’ How does Mrs McKee’s comment reflect on the marriage of Daisy and Tom? Fitzgerald is here depicting the poorer members of American society – why do you think he chooses to give Wilson the occupation of repairing cars? List...
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...Upper Class and Unethical Behavior – Then and Now In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, there are many conflicts that arise between the different social classes showing just how much of a difference having “old money”, “new money” or “no money” can make in the way people behave. The numerous interactions between them throughout the book show how the different classes behave. Each class is portrayed to have different attitudes and personalities. People think that with money comes power. However, we will learn that is not always correct. Like it is said, money is the root of all evil. Social class, or socioeconomic status (SES), refers to an individual’s rank vis-à-vis others in society in terms of wealth, occupational prestige, and education (2, 3). Abundant resources and elevated rank allow upper-class individuals increased freedom and independence (4), giving rise to self-focused patterns of social cognition and behavior (3). Relative to lower-class individuals, upper-class individuals have been shown to be less cognizant of others (4) and worse at identifying the emotions that others feel (5). Furthermore, upper-class individuals are more disengaged during social interactions—for example, checking their cell phones or doodling on a questionnaire—compared with their lower-class peers (6). (Piff 1) In The Great Gatsby, which takes place in the 1920's, there are three social classes defined, much like today’s society. There is ‘old money”, ‘new money” and...
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...You see people like Alexis Ren, Sommer Ray, Kim Kardashian, etc. post all about their “perfect” lives and their very risqué photos, but no one ever sees the reality of their lives. No one truly knows what goes on behind the scenes, and people assume that everything they see on the internet is completely real and true. They think that if their lives don’t look like that, then they’re doing something wrong and that they absolutely must achieve what they’re showing to the world. Many people in this world go to great extents and get plastic surgery to alter how they look, just so they’re able to look like the models they see online. They become so immersed in what they see online, that they don’t even care about the health risks that stem from plastic surgery. These obsessions are tremendously unhealthy, especially when it’s currently affecting teens all around the world. On the other hand, when you become obsessed with school, sports, religion, etc., that’s when things are different. When you’re so passionate about getting good grades, working towards getting chosen as the libero for your dream university volleyball team, or constantly spreading God’s word and trying to make an impact on others, these all become healthy obsessions. Constantly thinking...
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...Task Terms: A terminology guide to help develop questions for the Reading COE |Reading COE Task Terms |Definitions |Sample COE Questions with Targets | | | | | |Literary/Informational Comprehension | | | | | | | |Categorize |to place somebody or something in a particular category and |“Categorize the types of elephants discussed in the passage, | | |define or judge the person or thing accordingly |‘All Elephants.’ Describe the main characteristics of the | | | |elephant types using supporting details from the passage for | | ...
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...get caught up in just staying afloat, going through the motions and not having a big event that causes us a lot of stress, just everyday occurrences that keep building. I know that in my own experience, it has been little things, like a lot of homework coupled with a bad grade or something frustrating like another Husker football loss that has led to me feeling hopeless and wanting to wallow. It’s never one big thing, and sometimes, it can be the lack of a big thing that causes a break down. I’ve definitely experienced feelings of meaninglessness when going through an average week, where there are no exciting events happening, but also no bad things happening either. One quote that I was continually brought back to was one from The Great Gatsby by Nick Carraway, “I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life” (Fitzgerald). The thought of being both within and without is one that sounded a lot like what I was trying to do with this project. I wanted to incorporate being within and without, not just with the words I use at certain times in the story, but to convey that feeling of being without in the whole story. That’s why I didn’t really use any other characters in the story, I thought it might help to see the protagonist as not being connected with any part of the world. The disconnect makes it more plausible that she would want to be away from the world and wouldn’t dread the leaving or try to fight it. She was willing...
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...patterns. Patterns, in turn, can reveal hidden meanings and truths in the text- if something is mentioned repeatedly, thats a big clue that is of vital importance to fully understanding the piece of literature. Finally symbols show what text cannot and guide you to a more complete understanding of the underlying point. A complicated novel will often include many characters, one central plot, and numerous sub-plots. Pattern recognition allows us to see the relationships between character, actions, and ideas. A time when symbolism enhanced my understanding when reading a literary work, was when i was reading The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The symbol is the green light, which sits across the water from Gatsby's house. Gatsby stood at the end of his garden with arms outstretched, desperately trying to reach the green light. The green light symbolizes how desperately Gatsby want Daisy back in his life- however, his failure to reach the green light demonstrates how Daisy is ultimately gone from his life forever. 2.)Chapter 1: Every trip is a quest (Except when it's not) Story I have chosen is Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief A.) Our questor: A young boy with dyslexia and ADHD who finds out he is a demigod and that his father is poseidon. B.) A place to go: Percy and his friends must go and try to find the master lightning bolt that someone stole he also has to find and try to save his mom C.) A stated reason to go there: Zeus thinks percy stole the lightning...
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...critical theory today critical theory today A Us e r - F r i e n d l y G u i d e S E C O N D E D I T I O N L O I S T Y S O N New York London Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Routledge Taylor & Francis Group 270 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10016 Routledge Taylor & Francis Group 2 Park Square Milton Park, Abingdon Oxon OX14 4RN © 2006 by Lois Tyson Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business Printed in the United States of America on acid‑free paper 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 International Standard Book Number‑10: 0‑415‑97410‑0 (Softcover) 0‑415‑97409‑7 (Hardcover) International Standard Book Number‑13: 978‑0‑415‑97410‑3 (Softcover) 978‑0‑415‑97409‑7 (Hardcover) No part of this book may be reprinted, reproduced, transmitted, or utilized in any form by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying, microfilming, and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without written permission from the publishers. Trademark Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging‑in‑Publication Data Tyson, Lois, 1950‑ Critical theory today : a user‑friendly guide / Lois Tyson.‑‑ 2nd ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0‑415‑97409‑7 (hb) ‑‑ ISBN 0‑415‑97410‑0 (pb) 1. Criticism...
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...Advanced Placement English Language and Composition Advanced Placement English III First Six Weeks – Introductory Activities: ▪ Class rules, expectations, procedures ▪ Students review patterns of writing, which they will imitate throughout the course: reflection, narration and description, critical analysis, comparison and contrast, problem and solution, and persuasion and argument. ▪ Students review annotation acronyms, how to do a close reading, literary elements and rhetorical devices. Students also review the SOAPSTONE (subject, occasion, audience, purpose, speaker, tone, organization, narrative style and evidence) strategy for use in analyzing prose and visual texts along with three of the five cannons of rhetoric: invention, arrangement and style. ▪ Students learn the format of the AP test, essay rubric and essay structure. ▪ Students take a full-length AP test for comparison purposes in the spring. Reading: The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne Writing: Answer the following question in one paragraph. Use quotes from the novel as evidence. Some readers believe that the elaborate decoration that Hester embroiders on the scarlet letter indicates her rejection of the community’s view of her act. Do you agree or disagree? Explain your position using evidence from the text. (test grade) Writing: Write a well-developed essay addressing the following prompt. Document all sources using MLA citation. Compare Hester to a modern...
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