Thomas's Journey In The Great Gatsby

Keeping in mind of his higher socio-economic class, Tom prevents George from pursuing the American Dream by refusing to sell his car. Tom passes by Mr. Wilson's garage and stops to discuss with him and to further speak with Myrtle, his mistress. Tom and Mr. Wilson consult about his car that he will soon sell. Because Tom believes Mr. Wilson speaks in an unfriendly tone and shows little respect towards him, he rebukes, “No, he doesn’t. And if you feel that way about it, maybe I’d better sell it somewhere else after all” (Fitzgerald 25). Tom understands Wilson’s need for the car, however, Tom is not anxious to sell the car to him. Because of Tom’s wealth, he does not necessarily need the money right away. If Tom needed to sell the car sooner, than he would have loved Mr. Wilson's interest and sold the car to him right away. In order for Mr. Wilson to be prosperous as working as a mechanic, he needs Tom to sell him his car. Tom abrogates any potential for Wilson to obtain the

By this, I mean that he is slowly being driven into a killer by the variables thrown at him by WICKED. Thomas’s background is that he used to work for WICKED until they erased his memories and then put him through

He uses dialogue to set a mood that is scary and dangerous. “Hope you enjoyed the one-way trip, Greenie. Ain’t no ticket back bro.” This creates a desperate mood that Thomas is stuck in this place that he doesn’t know anything about.

Tom is the character who is the most responsible for the rising conflict, climax, and resolution because he had an affair with Myrtle, fought with Gatsby, and told George that Gatsby owned the car. One reason that Tom is the most responsible character is when he has an affair with Myrtle. The book says, “I said ‘God knows what you’ve been doing, everything you’ve been doing. You may fool me, but you can’t fool God!”

This shows that Thomas has been protecting Victor for many years, and it helps Victor put this past experience in perspective, and realize how Thomas has always been looking out for him. Thomas has played a very big, and important role in Victor’s life, which is highlighted in this story that Victor recalled, where Thomas saved Victor from dying of bee stings when the two boys were younger. This story causes Victor to take a step back, and reevaluate how significant his relationship with Thomas actually is, instead of assuming that their relationship is insignificant. In addition, Thomas agrees to lend Victor the money to get to Phoenix, but when Victor explains how he feels that it would be wrong to use Thomas for his money because they are not friends anymore, Thomas quickly exclaims, “I didn’t say we were friends. I said you had to take me with you” (Alexie 62).

Tom’s foolish actions after drinking led to aggression and violence. He was supposed to be this flawless and prestigious guy, however, his foolish actions made people believe otherwise. While Nick and Tom were on a train, it stopped at the Valley of Ashes. Nick noticed that Tom “tanked up a good deal luncheon, and his determination to have my company bordered on violence”(Fitzgerald 24). Tom had been drinking on the train. When he told Nick to come with him to see Myrtle, he said it in an aggressive tone. When Tom became drunk, he came off as violent to Nick. Nick had noticed that the alcohol changed his character and actions in an ugly manner. Another example of alcohol making a fool of Tom was when Tom and Myrtle went to their apartment in

The Great Gatsby Essay The novel, The Great Gatsby carries many themes. One of the themes is that lies and deceit lead to people getting betrayed and hurt. This is portrayed in the book by the characters cheating on each other. Who the characters are associated with clearly defines their social statues and their moral values.

The traditional hero, as defined by mythological scholar Joseph Campbell, undergoes a process in which he becomes a greater version of himself. This process is defined by Campbell’s archetype of the Hero’s Journey. In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the protagonist, Nick Carraway, tells the story of a man who is unable to complete this journey as a result of his unrealistic ambitions. Goodreads reviewer Nataliya writes, “Jay Gatsby. . . dreamed a dream with the passion and courage few possess — and the tragedy was that it was a wrong dream colliding with the reality that was even more wrong — and deadly” (Nataliya). The essence of Nataliya’s argument is that Gatsby’s pursuit of happiness was extremely misguided and often conflicted

Tom and Gatsby are both men in their early thirties, who are wealthy, but Tom comes from old money and Gatsby is a part of the nouveau riche. Due to their difference in social class, they present themselves differently. Tom doesn’t throw extravagant parties and flaunt his money like Gatsby does. Gatsby and Tom are similar characters, but they differ in their personalities. Tom is aggressive, egotistical, and believes that he is above everyone else, whereas Gatsby has a more reserved personality. No one even knew who Gatsby was at his own parties. They are similar in that they both want Daisy. Tom wants Daisy because his pride would be lost if she left him for a man of the lower class, and Gatsby wants Daisy because she was the first person who made him feel like he was a part of the upper class. Tom doesn’t have a goal in life, but to continue living his privileged life. Gatsby’s sole goal in life was to win Daisy back. Overall, there are many similarities and differences in the two characters.

In the beginning, some people try to appear that everything about them is "in black and white, until later their true colors come out (Anthony Liccione). In literature, authors show a character's true colors through their actions throughout the book. In the beginning of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, he presents Tom as an immoral person through his actions.

Thomas’ journey forward into the maze reflects of him seeking out himself, striving to renew his perception of who he was before. The type of discovery portrayed is not only self and change but emotional. Dashner uses the quote, “And at that moment, in the space of only a few seconds, he learned a lot about himself. About the Thomas that was before...” in order to illustrate how he figures out who he was before by knowing who he is now.

Friendship, a state of mutual trust and support between people. Friend, a person who has a bond of mutual affection, trust and can be relied on. Friendship is very important in James Dashner’s book, The Scorch Trials in addition to the whole Maze Runner series as well as the poem Here For You, by Nicolette J. Proffitt. In both, it talks about being there for eachother and having a bond not even the WICKEDest could break. WICKED has put the gladers into a maze with deadly grievers ( robotic spiders), into a lightning storm, killed most of them and even sent them to a crank infested city ( zombies but they are not dead) but if that's not bad enough they injected them with the Flare that would turn them crazy!

The Moment was when everything started to change in the Glade. What started to change? It was the sun, the sun disappeared and the skies would stay gray all day even at nighttime, the 4 enormous walls don’t close anymore, and the one glader gets taken away each day by a griever.“With the skies being gray because it quickly became obvious that the walls hadn’t moved from the day before. Everything was exactly the same.”(The Maze Runner, pg 282), “ Griever took one of them just like last night? I think Gally was right they’re gonna just killing us”(The Maze Runner pg 286). This impacts Thomas as a person because life isn’t normal as it use to be also he is losing friends the represents symbols to him who help him go through his journey of self-discovery. Thomas getting stung by a Griever helps him get some of his memories back.”Thomas felt pain erupt over every inch of his body needly pricks that told him he’d succeeded… A Med-jack said something about him being stung dozens of times”(The Maze Runner, pg 295). This helps his journey of self-discovery because he can finally find out who he really was before he had his memories taken

Thomas has many questions, but almost none get answered. As Thomas and Chuck are walking, Chuck plays a joke on someone in the bathroom and runs away. The person in the bathroom was Gally and he only sees Thomas. He says that he has seen him before, and because of this joke, Gally hates Thomas more. Later that night, he sees a person running very fast come out each of the four doors and go into a small concrete building in the middle of the Glade and he wants to know what they were doing. Thomas has a strong urge to become a runner, even though he doesn’t know what they do. He also starts to recognize The Glade and thinks he has been there before. The next morning Newt wakes Thomas up and shows him a Greiver, what seems to be a mix of an animal and a machine, through a window, trying to show Thomas why he should stay inside of the Glade. He also explains that there is a maze surrounding The Glade and every second the runners are awake, they are trying to solve it. Later, Alby will take Thomas on a tour

Scott F. Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, depicts the difficulties in achieving the American Dream, and what some of the morally questionable actions one would do to achieve it are. The novel focuses on a very rich man, named Jay Gatsby, and the strange obsession he has with Daisy Buchanan, a married woman who he had a relationship with in the past, before she got married. The book also talks about Gatsby’s perseverance to make Daisy fall in love with him, using his extreme wealth as well as power. The author uses money, extravagancy and almost fictional parties to show that the American dream is impossible to obtain. Money is the main reason that ignites the actions of the main characters in the book.