Book Vs. Novel, A Book, And The Great Gatsby

She does not understand why the older and well-known authors are not being read in high school. Prose uses a personal experience from her son’s sophomore English class. He had to read a “weeper and former bestseller by Judith Guest” (424), about a dysfunctional family dealing with a teenage son’s suicide attempt. “No instructor has ever asked my sons to read Alice Munro, who writes so lucidly and beautifully about the hypersensitivity that makes adolescence a hell,”(424). She again mentions books she approves of that should be read in English classes.

Movie adaptations are widely produced in our modern cinematic world. Many book lovers criticize movie adaptations, proclaiming that it kills the spirit of the story, misses out on critical key themes, and eliminates the reader's and viewer’s imagination. The Great Gatsby movie, directed by Baz Luhrmann and released on May 1st, 2013, is a film adaptation of the book The Great Gatsby, written in 1922 by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The time lag between the movie and the book made some things unacceptable in our society. These changing societal proprietorship motivated Baz Luhrmann to alter the movie to be more suitable for current viewers. Consequently, there are many differences to be found between the book and the movie adaptation, which ultimately led to Luhrmann's movie being critiqued many times by the book’s fans, saying it was nothing like the actual book. Despite the fact that the movie adaptation of the Great Gatsby book follows the overall plot, it fails to show the racism, sexism, and abuse some of the characters withhold. The movie also fails to show the significance of the American dream, the condemnation of the lifestyle of the very rich, and it also annihilates reader’s imagination.

All too often the film industry takes a book and changes it for movie purposes. The resulting film, no matter how good or bad it may be as a stand alone, is inevitably criticized with those all too familiar words “The book was better.” However, The Great Gatsby has found itself within a group of the select few book based movies that has very few changes from the book at all. In fact, most of the lines the actors used were straight quotes from the book. A good majority of the characters, settings, words, and events in both the film and the book are identical,but not perfectly so. There are still a few things that must be changed either due to translation from page to screen or due to stylistic choice by the director.

When I was eight or nine years old, I decided I wanted to be a writer. By this age, I had already gone through the phases of wanting to be an artist, a cook, an astronaut and was extremely satisfied with my new choice of profession. After all, I loved to read so why not write? Reading was my true love: during second grade, I conquered all of Harry Potter over the course of two months. My mom’s rule was that I had to read the book before watching the movie, so I read and read. I would compete in, and win, all the school reading competitions as well as the summer library competitions. Writing, I decided, was the next natural step.

The Great Gatsby has made a major impact on modern day literature. The book has left something that all readers will remember. The Great Gatsby has a great combination of romance and mystery and does a great job of describing the 1920s. The book is extremely detailed and makes you think of how all humans think and interact with each other. Although this story is purely fiction it does relate to the creators life, F. S. Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald displayed his dream life and his actually life in this book.

In the newer version of the Great Gatsby movie they actually acted out the part where myrtle gets hit by the car. The acting is a lot more dramatic than I thought it was in the older one. In the newer one Wilson shoots him once and from a different position than he does in the other, in the other he shoots him four or five times. Nick is the only person who shows up to Gatsby’s funeral in the 2013 version, but in the older one Gatsby’s father also shows up. Gatsby says that he will take the blame for what happened in both versions and he waits for Daisy to call but she never does, even after his death. In both there isn’t anyone who really cares enough to go to his funeral, other than his father in the older one.

Throughout the beginning of the book The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and the movie directed by Baz Luhrmann Jay Gatsby is a cool and collected character. It is hard for the audience member to really understand Gatsby. Gatsby is hidden by his lavish wealth, and his mysteriousness prevents us from seeing any real human emotion. This all changes when Nick invites Daisy over for tea, so that Gatsby can see her again. Gatsby is portrayed as nervous, impatient, and irritable. Although the movie does a good job of highlighting these emotions, there are a couple of deviations that make this scene come alive. The sounds, editing, and the dialogue all contribute to a scene that is not only pivotal to the development of Gatsby, Daisy,

The Great Gatsby takes place in the 1920s - otherwise known as the Roaring Twenties. This was a time of great economic prosperity. Culture was evolving significantly during this time. There were women called flappers who were rebels, in every sense of the word. Other important factors of the 1920s include prohibition, a movement for equality for all. Also, the Model T was the “first” automobile, and they cost only 260 dollars in 1924. This made money more valuable because things were so affordable - people could buy more and be more prosperous because they would have more things and ways to communicate, get around, etc..

Kenedi Facey Mrs. Ciarrocca English Honors/Block B 13 February 2015 The Great Gatsby Book vs. Movie It is extremely hard to make a movie to compete with a novel's brilliance, especially with F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. The Great Gatsby's movie producer, Baz Luhrmann was fortunately able to accomplish the original novel's complicated plot and frame story by positively tweaking the 1920's glitz and glam, and taking on a modern approach with the novel's storyline. Although there were a few controversial and arguable scenes made throughout the movie, it is safe to say Baz Luhrmann has done a decent job in conveying Fitzgerald's theme and message in the movie.

A vivid scene that was intriguing and I found interesting is the Great Gatsby's Murder scene. These scenes from the book and the movie were two different styles of showing the reader what was going on. The plot was the same, Tom told Wilson it was Gatsby that murdered Myrtle and Wilson wanted to get revenge. This scene was a very important part of the book and I would think the director’s would want the scene to go exactly how the book told it to be. There was a couple scenes that was brought to my attention when watching the movie. According to the book Gatsby had a inflatable pool raft with him in the book, “He stopped at the garage for a pneumatic mattress that had amused his guests during the summer, and the chauffeur helped him pump it up.” In the movie he just ask one of his servants to get a raft, but it was nowhere to be found in the pool when he died.

It had been the third day in a row that I was stuck in there with those two, watching my friends have a great time with a book shoved in my face. It just got drilled into my head that reading meant I had done something wrong. This distaste for reading continued through my life, faking my way through reading log descriptions and forging my parents’ signatures, up until about seventh grade. I was a bit angsty in middle school. I got into some trouble and veered off course a bit. Mrs. Caudill, though, saw the good in me and didn’t give up on my character. She offered new and creative ways to express ourselves, and it renewed my interest in English in a big way. I remember the first book I had read since elementary was a recommendation from her, Unwind. I fell in love with that book immediately. I actually read it a few more times later in high school. It just changed my entire perception of reading. Instead of using it as an escape from my life, I used it as an example of how my life could be worse. I think that’s why I enjoy the horror

In the 1920’s, after the Great War, life became grander—the stock market was reaching highs it had never reached before, the ban on alcohol was no longer in place, and the parties were colossal. A book that captures this opulent atmosphere perfectly is The Great Gatsby, written by the prestigious author F. Scott Fitzgerald. Many have tried to turn this marvelous novel into a movie; however, the one that stands out amongst the rest is the most recent one, directed by Baz Luhrmann. While Luhrmann’s interpretation of Fitzgerald’s novel is quite accurate, the setting, the plot, and the theme are all depicted in much greater detail in the classic novel, which allows the reader to get a better understanding of the characters that

Today, we live in a society that sometimes pushes the envelope, in regards to topics that may seem controversial, and evoke uncomfortable emotions in our school classrooms, and also the parents of the children reading these books. It is important to establish the profound impact children’s literature has not only children, but also these books we once read and have shaped our emotions and feelings as we matured into adults. One book can change a reader’s life forever. It may be the timing of the book, or hardships we are enduring while we are reading the book. These emotions can feel positive or negative, and ultimately change the way we see the world. According to Kiefer and Tyson (2013), “So much of what we teach in school is concerned with facts. Literature is concerned with feelings and the quality of life. It can educate the heart as well as well as the mind” (p. 7). Children’s literature provides an avenue to allow our children to escape and feel emotions they may not have experienced, but will someday.

It is an incredible enigma: the way a chunk of papers with words strung in a specific order to tell a story and a title slapped on the front of it can impact a person’s life so profoundly. Yet, it is no surprise at all. Many often meditate on how a book can mean so much, when rather people should question how a book cannot mean more. At least, that is what I have come to wonder as I review the way each book has provided me with a new experience and challenge for my imagination. With every book I read, a part of who I am is molded or altered in a submissive response to the authority literature reigns over my life.

Prior to entering the long journey that grade school is I had already held a passion for books. My Grandfather someone who I idolized in every notion conceivable would visit me weekly. Along with his presence which was a gift in itself for me he would have a book. A new one. Each and every week. My book shelf continually grew and grew until eventually I had three shelves full before he passed away. I knew I loved books and had a deep rooted appreciation for all literature, whether it good or “bad”. The stories that made me say “Read it again Papa.” or the “That wasn’t a cool one.”, I loved it all. Geared up and full of excitement, I  couldn’t have been more ready to embrace my new independence. Ready to learn how to read and fly solo through the pages that acquainted me with various princesses and foolish animals. Although much to my dissatisfaction reading didn’t strike the uprising of a new enriching and independent experience I was desperately hoping for.  Instead my viewpoint