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    important role throughout the novel, most prominently with the use of green, white, and gold. The color green plays a very important role in the novel; being one of the most used colors. I believe green symbolizes hope, and jealousy. Green is used as a symbol of hope in chapter 5, when Gatsby is showing Daisy his house. Gatsby looks across the bay from his window and says

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    detail of the painting. In the screen painting, Women in a Palace definitely display its emptions through the colors of the painting. For example, the color Green is used a lot in the painting, which I believe, means that the painter wanted to display a new life that she will lead. I believe this because if I think about it for a while you think green is color of new life and she is getting a new life by getting departed from the castle. Then comes the color red, which probably means the difficulty that

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    the color green. As the reader, you come across many symbols inside the symbol of the color green. Some examples may be the green ring on Dickie’s finger, (37) the bar in the beginning of the novel called “The Green Cage” (3) and Dickie’s last name, Greenleaf. The color green represents the feeling of jealousy or envy. Tom Ripley envies the life that Dickie has and the money that he earns. (37) Tom wanted to be liked by Dickie, as well as his rich friends. (49) The bar called “The Green Cage” represents

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    Color In The Great Gatsby

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    color, in particular, symbolizes the inner thoughts and feelings of the characters in instances such as Tom’s blue car and the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. Throughout the novel, Fitzgerald uses color as a major device in character development showing the many intangible ideas Fitzgerald adds to the novel. There are five major colors that appear frequently: green, white, yellow, blue, and grey. They make the novel more vivid and profound deepening of the themes of the disillusionment of

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald plays with colors in The Great Gatsby. He uses the color green many times to describe things. Green may be used to represent a new, fresh feeling. The light on the end of Daisy’s dock that he speculates and reaches out towards every night happens to be green. The light obviously stand for something that Gatsby finds fascinating or out of reach. He can’t help but stare at its wonderful pigments it holds. When context is added, the reader learns that Gatsby has always dreamed of

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    shows the difference between the different characters and scenes in the novel. The color green influences the story a lot. Green shows many thoughts, ideas, attitudes, and choices that Gatsby has throughout the story. White too plays an even more important role in the novel as it is used to represent some of the characters, it also talks about the drinking and the driving that happened, where the color green is more a symbol of the relationship between Daisy and Gatsby. This sort of symbolism reoccurs

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    walked and played the course it took me to another world a world with my father, a world where he still smiles at me, looks at me with adoration. We practiced every day afterschool till sunset, by the end of the day we would always end up on the 18th green where the grass was always longer and always greener, it was our hole we both loved it. . It just seemed the more we practiced together the more we laughed the closer we became, this lead to my house being full of trophies. He motivated each and

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    Green Man Flashing Essay

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    Green Man Flashing is a play written by Mike van Graan and it is a story about a woman named Gabby Anderson who is sexually assaulted by her high profile black boss. This story explores her life before the assault and after. It has moments of flashbacks and is a reverse chronology where the play starts at the end. Green Man Flashing is a contemporary political piece because it explores modern racism, universal eternal ideologies and the styles of flashbacks and simultaneous scenes are used. Racism

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    Lake Park Research Paper

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    Diamond of Dale Mabry Parking in the main picnic area great field stretches out, and ends at the edge of a large lake. There is a light scattering of trees in the field but is quite open. Lake Park is located on Dale Mabry highway in Lutz, Florida. “Florida is home to 160 state parks covering more than 700,000 acres.” (Gall & Antone, 2012). Lake Park is a beautiful, family and pet friendly part of these parks, with lots of activities for the whole family. The breeze whispering through the trees and

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    For my book cover of The Great Gatsby, I choose the green light because it represents how you never give up and keep striving for your dreams and hopes, even if you feel like it’s going to be hard to get where you want. Another definition would be the American's Dream which is to equal rights to everyone in the the US. Also, it means to like go forward when you’re trying to get to the top, never look back to your mistakes, always learn from them and do more of what you’re capable of doing. For example

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