The Book This Side Of Paradise Because I Really Enjoy F. Scott Fitzgerald 's Novel

Thesis Statement: Perhaps Fitzgerald was not ‘‘the inevitable male companion,” she would choose out of the entire world, she writes in a long letter to Oppenheimer and Guinzburg, but he “was moderately sober and pretty d*** nice.” Besides she couldn’t help herself but to feel sorry for him with Zelda having been institutionalized since January.

This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald is an extremely renowned coming of age novel. It portrays life in the roaring 20’s, following the life of a young Amory Blaine. Amory faces obstacles from devastation by wealthy women to fighting in World War I and losing some of his closest friends. Reading How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster emphasized the main ideas throughout Amory’s life. The two main ideas that stood out in Fitzgerald’s book, was the quest taken by Amory Blaine and what Foster calls “baptisms” throughout the story.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, a St. Paul, Minnesota native, was born on September 24, 1896. His father, Edward Fitzgerald, had co-written a novel in his youth and often read works by Edgar Allen Poe and Lord George Gordon Byron to Scott during his childhood. While Fitzgerald’s father praised his literary attempts, both of his parents encouraged him to pursue other career paths. Nevertheless, Fitzgerald was steadfast in his literary endeavors, writing for both his high school and college newspapers. He later dropped out of Princeton University in order to join the army and continued to pursue writing, penning both magazine articles and musical lyrics (Adams 10-11).

The Color Purple, was released in 1985 and was set in the early until middle of the 1900s, it was one of the first featured movies to openly discuss the topic of domestic violence as a main part of the film. This has been very significant because it sets a standard of normalizing domestic violence in the characters lives, which Walker was able to show and develop through Celie and how she mistreatment in the hands of her stepfather and husband. In addition, a powerful message about how people who have been oppressed can unite together to overcome their oppressors. By the character finding out who she is and taking value in what she can become, this movie shows a feminist power. While Celie was searching for truth, she comes to realize that the patriarchal culture she went through in the South is abusive to all women. She learns that women can be equal to men in in matters of love and finance, power, and in knowledge, when she met Shug and they escape from Albert. Near the end of the movie, when Celie returns to Georgia, she isn’t submissive and weak anymore; On the contrary, she has become a competent, self-confident woman who knows she can be satisfied without depending on anybody else but herself.

When writing this book, Fitzgerald uses his own surroundings and even attacks the idea of love throughout the novel. Fitzgerald is similar to Gatsby and it is evident, because of how they both are hopeless romantics. He was in a relationship with a woman named Zelda and deeply loves her. They both live normal lives and even, “led wild lives filled with parties and intrigue. [However] The drama in their lives ended badly: Fitzgerald became an alcoholic and suffered mental collapses, while Zelda

Scott Fitzgerald born September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota. It’s safe to say writing runs in Fitzgerald’s family because his cousin Francis Scott Key wrote the “Star-Spangled banner”. Fitzgerald spent most of his young childhood moving around New York due to his father’s work, in 1908, the family moved back to St. Paul and lived off his mother’s inheritance. When Fitzgerald was fifteen years old his parents sent him to a respected catholic school, this is where he met Father Sigourney Fay, who quickly noted that he had a great talent for writing and encouraged him to continue writing. Upon graduating Catholic School Fitzgerald continued to write at The University of Princeton. He wrote musicals for the school and even had a section in the Princeton Tiger humor magazine and stories for the Nassau Literary Magazine, this kept him away from his school work which led to academic probation. In 1917 Fitzgerald decided to join the U.S. Army this was around the time of World War 1, before being sent off to the camp he wrote a novel “The Romantic Egotist” his novel was rejected by Charles Scribner’s Sons, the critic noted its originality and heartened Fitzgerald to continue writing. Fitzgerald was sent to Alabama and quickly promoted to second lieutenant. It was at Camp Sheridan where Fitzgerald fell in love with Zelda Sayre Daughter of a respected Supreme Court judge. The war concluded in 1918 before Fitzgerald was ever deployed. After being discharged he moved to New York

contains themes and morals that continue to be relevant to modern society. As a result,

One of the major characteristics of a great novel is its potential to depict characters that are representative of a specific society, its ideology, its conventions, and its worldview. Analyzing from the perspective of characterization, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel “This Side of Paradise” should be considered as one of the greatest novels ever written in the realm of American literature because emphasizing on the development of the central protagonist’s character in the novel it can be found that it is a typical representation of the American ideology and the American philosophy.

With his literary gift Fitzgerald reminds the reader of a lesson still prevalent today- an innocent desire of success can be overcome by greed. As seen during the roaring twenties materialism undoubtedly has the ability to overcome the original ideals of hope , ambition, and opportunity that drive the American Dream. This character demise serves a greater purpose than a dramatic personal story of boy who loses his direction but rather an understanding of the lives of many American families who had it all in the roaring 20's only to lose the "American Dream" in the Great Depression. This unattainable nature of the American dream lives on in modern times, families still confuse wealth and power for happiness and peace of mind. The novels great success is due to Fitzgerald's remarkable ability to write a novel about a theme that is so reoccurring in society.

One of the points that is consistently brought up in Toni Morrison’s Paradise is that of the all black town “Ruby”. Paradise uses the setting of Oklahoma to discuss how many black towns are shaped by past history and religion. While the town in this novel is fictional, there have been real all black towns in the United States, and it seems that these towns influenced many aspects of the town Ruby, which is why it is so easy to imagine that the story could actually be real. Many authors have written in general about the novel, and specifically about the town within it.

One of the main idea’s that Fitzgerald showed was the innocence of a character and their lose of innocence. We start to see the innocence in the character’s at the begin of the book and as the book goes on

In Of Mice & Men and The Great Gatsby, how do people’s American Dream differ, what do they have in common, and how do people feel about the dreams of others?

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in a family of a failed business man which caused many moves between Buffalo and Syracuse. (Brucker) After the loss of his father’s job, they were left to move back to St. Paul, Minnesota and live from his mother’s inheritance. (bio.com) F Scott Fitzgerald grew as a very intellectual young boy who published a detective story in his school’s newspaper as a teenager. (bio.com) He was encouraged by his parents, along with educators to continue pursuing a writing career. His dedication of writing soon harmed him when he was put on academic probation as his school work was put aside. He then decided to enroll in the military despite his fears of dying without living his dreams. Upon being commissioned Fitzgerald met a crazed young woman named Zelda, who represents the basis of the desires of the world. Her greed of wealth, fun, and extravagance soon took a toll upon F. Scott. He became lazy with his writing and instead of devoting himself to novels, he quickly put

The Roaring Twenties was a time renowned for partying, drinking, and a time without war. F. Scott Fitzgerald is just one of the many writers during this time to write about such times. Fitzgerald, however, is an author that defined this era also known as the Jazz Age. Known for novels such as The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise, and The Beautiful and the Damned, and many short stories, Fitzgerald is described by famousauthors.org as “one of the greatest writers American soil has produced in the 20th century. F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. He had an amazing writing career driven by an interesting personal life. His death and legacy cut his career short and we still celebrate him now.

There are different types of experiences that Fitzgerald had throughout his life. Some experiences could be happy, exciting or some could be sad, disturbing. F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, MN (“F (rancis)”). He died on December 21, 1940, in Hollywood, CA (“F (rancis)”). Fitzgerald’s father’s name was Edward Fitzgerald, and his mother’s name was Mary (Mollie) McQuillan (Matthew). When Fitzgerald was a child, he did not get the chance to make childhood friends because his parents moved different places before he started his school. “Fitzgerald attended the Newman school in Hackensack, New Jersey and while he was in school; he continued to write for school publication” (“F (rancis)”). After he graduated high school, he attended Princeton University class of