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What Is The Purpose Of The Great Gatsby

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The Great Gatsby is a book written by the amazing F. Scott Fitzgerald, who wrote about a man named Jay Gatsby who was determined to get his true love back Daisy Buchanan. There are plenty of great characters that play very different roles from each other that make this book so interesting. The book is written from the point of view of Nick Caraway who was the Neighbor of Gatsby and the cousin of Daisy Buchanan. Jay Gatsby was this mysterious character who no one knew how he had become so rich and popular throughout the book, and nick being one of Gatsby’s few true friends gave the reader a new perspective of who Jay Gatsby was. I also want to give the reader a new perspective to The Great Gatsby that isn’t a very common reading of literature …show more content…

“There are levels to the food chain called trophic levels, which are producers, consumers and decomposers. (Sue 1)” Producers also known as autotrophs produce their own food like plants; consumers also known as carnivores eat their food for energy, and decomposers also known as detritivores eat nonliving plants and animals to survive. Food chains have different habitats and ecosystems that provide many possible food chains that make up a food web. I am relating the book The Great Gatsby with how there is a food chain within the characters of the book. From Gatsby being one of the higher tier classed characters within the book, to Nick being in the middle class, and the Wilsons being in the lower class of characters. Also, just how predators in the wild need to eat and hunt to survive and be classed as a top dog; so does the characters in the book. However, instead of hunting prey they yearn for money and success because to them that is what determines who is a top dog or not. Throughout this paper we will read about how biology and The Great Gatsby correlate with all the amazing …show more content…

The definition of evolution is the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth. This theory was the work of a man named Charles Darwin who was famous in the science community because of his work behind evolution which involved natural selection and survival of the fittest. In the book “The Great Gatsby” Nick Carraway is an example of evolution with how he goes from being this small-town man from Minnesota, then going to fight in World War I, and finally going to the big city to study the bond business. “Evolution by natural selection is one of the best substantiated theories in the history of science, supported by evidence from a wide variety of scientific disciplines, including paleontology, geology, genetics and developmental biology. (Than 1)” This quote describes how evolution is a very known topic in the science community and can be found in all types

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