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    the writer has accumulated throughout his or her life. In the case of F. Scott Fitzgerald, this statement could not be truer. In fact, much of Fitzgerald’s most famous work feature plots that closely parallel events from his life (Lathbury 10). For example, his novel This Side of Paradise includes a young man who is rejected by the love of his life on the grounds of his social status. Zelda similarly rejected Fitzgerald for his social status at first. In comparison, it is not surprising that Fitzgerald’s

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    Kaleb Carter Hensley English 11 / First Period Feb 5th, 2017 Part Two: Author Biography F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul Minnesota on September 24, 1896. Fitzgerald was born into an upper-middle class family. He attended the St. Paul Academy and had his first literary work printed when he was 13. It was a story of a detective and was included in the school newspaper. In 1911, Fitzgerald was sent off to the Newman School. Which was a well known Catholic preparatory school based in New Jersey

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald is mostly known for his images of young, rich, immoral individuals pursuing the American Dream of the 1920’s (Mangum). This image is best portrayed in his greatest novel, The Great Gatsby, alongside his principal themes, “lost hope, the corruption of innocence by money, and the impossibility of recapturing the past” (Witkoski). Fitzgerald was identified as a modern period writer because his themes and topics were inconsistent with traditional writing (Rahn). The modern period

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896, and he graduated from Princeton University. In college he used to write musicals and because of his devotion to writing, he left and joined the army in 1917 and was dismissed in 1919. In 1920, He published his first novel "This Side of Paradise". The novel was very successful, and Fitzgerald entered the world of fame; as the book sold over 50 thousand copies in the first edition. As a result, Fitzgerald earned enough money to marry

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    243). From this perspective, “all the beloved people surrounding the boy in his childhood may be the idealized figures that follow him in later life.” (Thi Huong Jiang Biu, Amory’s Disillusionment in This Side of Paradise). From the beginning of the novel, Amory is introduced as a Blaine, who “inherited from his mother every trait,” except two traits inherited from his father: “his height of just under six feet and his tendency to waver at crucial moments” (F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1, This Side of Paradise)

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    wealth, influence, or even rebirth into a new life. Gatsby’s first endeavor to recreate himself and fight the passage of time occurs when he is a poor boy in Minnesota. James Gatz, as he is called at the time, has “a big future in front of him” (Fitzgerald 172) but is held back by the circumstances of his birth into an underprivileged family. Fortunately, Gatz encounters the millionaire Dan Cody and, with him, an opportunity for renewal. Gatz changes his identity to Jay Gatsby, an idealized

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    The Great Gatsby Speech

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    Today is New Year's day! This is a festive time to celebrate the new comings and hopefully the new wealth, God knows America needs it after the downfall of the stock markets. However, let’s not dwell on that, I am here to discuss a vibrant writer in the 1920’s, he was very popular until he got involved with alcohol. His name is F. Scott Fitzgerald and last night I decided to count down the hours until midnight by reading “The Side of Paradise” by him. It was about a boy finding himself after the

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    madness” (Fitzgerald, F. Scott). This quote from F. Scott Fitzgerald perfectly sums up the twenties. Everyone wanted a perfect life, but in order to achieve this goal, they had to lie to themselves and to others around them. This quote also sums up Fitzgerald’s greatest novel, The Great Gatsby. In this novel, which Fitzgerald based loosely on his own life, everything seems perfect on the surface, but once you dig down you see the dishonesty, hypocrisy, and infidelity that modernized this time period

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    This Side of Paradise is the first novel of beloved author F. Scott Fitzgerald. Drawing greatly from his own life, Fitzgerald tells the story of Amory Blaine. Blaine is born to rich parents who move from Britain to New England. He is noted as a handsome boy a world of privilege handed to him as he spends his early years trying to fit in with his new classmates. His high school career is spent at a boarding school from which he moves to Princeton. It is half way through college that Amory realizes

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of the best writers of his time from,“This side of Paradise”, to, “The Great Gatsby”. F. Scott Fitzgerald also used figurative language to catch readers attention with words that better understand. In chapter 3 of The Great Gatsby, F. scott Fitzgerald utilizes Polysyndeton and Imagery to illustrate better understand the concept of the book. F. Scott Fitzgerald utilized polysyndeton to connect sentences,and give the reader better understanding of the story

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