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    The novel, This Side of Paradise, was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s. It was his first novel. It caught the attention of the public and made the novel representative of an entire generation. Not to mention, it made him a successful popular author when he was only twenty-three years old. This Side of Paradise revolves around the young adult, Amory Blaine, and his life from his childhood through his early twenties. The novel depicts the life of a young man in a society where wealth and power are

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    Born Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, September 24, 1896 in St. Paul Minnesota. Fitzgerald was a ambitious, intelligent, and handsome boy. He was the pride and joy of his parents. His mother saw him as the light of her life. Mary McQuillan, Fitzgerald’s mother, was from Irish-Catholic descent. The family of his mother made a small fortune while selling wholesale groceries in Minnesota. His father, Edward Fitzgerald, was a salesman working for Proctor and Gamble. This job took them back and forth

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    Sanjana: Hello everyone! This is the Early Morning Show, and I’m your host Kara. Today we’re paying tribute to Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald and will remember him and his work by watching an interview from 78 years ago, that to place in this very building. Before we start I’d like to say that Francis was a creative man, and died of a heart attack while writing what would soon be his last piece of work, The Last Tycoon. Sanjana: Hello. I’m Sanjana and This is The Early Morning Show. Today we’re accompanied

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    Title: The life of Zelda Fitzgerald and her relationship with F. Scott Fitzgerald Thesis: Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald is generally remembered as the flamboyant wife of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. Zelda, named after a gypsy queen in a novel, however, was a talented writer in her own right, recognized for her biting and bantering style. I. Introduction Zelda is sick and Mr. Fitzgerald is not allowed to see her Thesis Statement: Perhaps Fitzgerald was not ‘‘the inevitable male companion,” she would choose

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    1931, F. Scott Fitzgerald was a man in pain. His wife, Zelda, had suffered a nervous breakdown the year before, and was officially diagnosed a Schizophrenic by expert psychiatrists in Switzerland. She was the love of his life, his muse, the one on the dedication page of the Great Gatsby. Worse yet, his conscience told him he may have been responsible for her break. Arthur Mizener explains, in his official biography of Fitzgerald, The Other Side of Paradise, the reasoning behind this guilt: ‘’He

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    1920s Individualism

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    literary figures of the 1920s , examples such as Fitzgerald and Hemingway , wrote novel and short stories judging the selfish and materialism individualism of that age. One of the famous books F.Scott Fitzgerald was “The Great Gatsby” and other books such as “The Side of Paradise” many more. In the 20’s literature reflected realistic characters and themes and many focus and influenced by the Great war and concentrated on the negative effects of modernism. This was also the era of the harlem renaissance

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    Micheal Wilson American Literature 3 July 2015 Great Gatsby Essay The celebrated American author F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, “An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.” In his seminal novel The Great Gatsby, set among the decadence and excess of New York society during the Roaring Twenties, Fitzgerald accomplished all three. Though the work achieved limited commercial success during Fitzgerald’s lifetime, the

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    Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was one of the greatest authors during the early 1900s. He wrote five award winning novels and countless more short stories. He was born on September 24, 1896, in Minnesota to an upper middle class catholic family. He wrote for his high school paper which encouraged him to follow his dreams of writing not academics. He died on December 21, 1940, of a heart attack. Fitzgerald is the supreme writer of the 1920s and 30s since he wrote numerous different novels and influenced

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    The Life and Times of Scott Fitzgerald How did Fitzgerald’s life and the time period influence his writing? The mastermind behind one of America 's greatest and most revolutionary pieces of literature had a humble beginning. He was born on September 24, 1896 to Mary and Edward Fitzgerald of St. Paul Minnesota. As a child, the family moved back and forth between Buffalo and Syracuse New York, they were dependent on his fathers minimum wage jobs. Scott’s first piece of writing, a detective story

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    The Life and Times of Scott Fitzgerald How did Fitzgerald’s life and the time period influence his writing? The mastermind behind one of America 's best and most revolutionary pieces of literature had a humble beginning. He was born on September 24, 1896 to Mary and Edward Fitzgerald of St. Paul Minnesota. As a child, the family moved back and forth between Buffalo and Syracuse New York, they were dependent on his fathers’ minimum wage jobs. Scott’s first piece of writing, a detective story, was

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