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    The book cover I choose to write about is The Green Light I picked this one because of what it symbolizes an that is hope and I hope to get a good grade on this. This topic is from the book The Great Gatsby and the author of the book is F.Scott Fitzgerald. I'm going to be telling you what the light Gatsby is reaching for is all about. In the beginning of the book it tells you that every night Gatsby goes out on his deck and reaches for this mysterious green light across the bay. The Green Light

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    use indirect characterization to reveal the characters speech, action and appearance, then use direct characterization to reveal the personality. This method of describing a character was very common in fiction novels such as “The Great Gatsby” by F.Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald was known for writing descriptive dialogue such as, “he smiled understandingly” (chapter 3, pg. 43) with regards to the main character Gatsby. The use of the verb “smiled” allowed Fitzgerald to convince the reader of Gatsby’s

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    There have been many adaptations of F.Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” (1925) novel. One of the most recent adaptations was the 2013 movie directed by Baz Lurhmann. Baz Luhrmann adapted this film and used intertextuality to construct a 3D fourth screen version of a classic novel. Intertextuality is commonly known among literature texts. It refers to the way in which texts gain meaning from other texts. In this context it refers to the way in which Baz Luhrmann used F. Scott Fitzgerald’s

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    Undying Faith In his novel, The Great Gatsby, F.Scott Fitzgerald suggests that The American Dream isn’t the picture perfect family and picture perfect world people believe it is. He displays the corruption of this dream through literary devices and symbols. One symbol Fitzgerald uses is the green light at the end of Daisy Buchanan’s dock in East Egg. Nick states that, “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.”(pg.193) It’s basically Gatsby’s inspiration

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    The great gatsby was written by F.Scott Fitzgerald it is about a long lost lover(Gatsby) who is trying find his way back into his partners(Daisy) heart but she is already married with kids. While reading the great gatsby I have found many symbols that mean many different things, I decided to use this one because in the book the green light symbolize their love for eachother and how close they were to each other. Gatsby lives in the west egg across the lake from Daisy and Tom who lives in the East

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    The Great Gatsby novel, F.Scott Fitzergald serves a modern theme of wealth. This power creates rich from poor turning struggles into money to be themselves. During the Great Gatsby wealth identifies the sense of carelessness of money and material things that can't buy happiness. Money causes people to become envious, greedy, and jealous. Fitzergald reveals a point that money does not breed happiness. In the Great Gatsby, the rich have a sense of carelessness that unobtainable by most

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    In F.Scott Fitzgerald's short story, “Winter Dreams”, he suggest that the American Dream is a desire for glittery objects. In the short story on page 735 it says “Dexter borrowed a thousand dollars on his college degree and his confident mouth, and bought partnership in a laundry.” I believe this quote just proves that he did whatever so he could have the glittery objects himself. He made something small into something huge and ended up becoming very successful at a young age. Dexter knew he was

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    What does it take for true love to prosper? Can living the high life make a great impact? In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, is one extraordinary novel that he wrote in 1925. F.Scott Fitzgerald 's novel takes place in 1920’s and takes part of the 1st World War. It is written about a young man named Nick, he moved to west egg to take a new life occupation on the bond business. He ends up being neighbors with a mysterious man named Gatsby who ends up giving him an interesting aspect of

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    F.Scott Fitzgerald is the author of The Great Gatsby which takes place in New York. The story takes place in New York and is centered around Nick Carraway who is an honest and an unbiased man, Daisy and Tom Buchanan who are a wealthy married couple, and Jay Gatsby, a wealthy man who hides many secrets. Some claim that The Great Gatsby is a love story but in reality the story about a secrecy, deception and loneliness that come with wealth. Throughout the story of the The Great Gatsby, secrecy is a

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    Brylee Seagraves Elizabeth West Research paper F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby develops a theme of greed and constant discontent within the main characters through literary elements such as tone, symbolism, imagery, and dialogue. In the Great Gatsby the contemporary society of a prosperous America during the time after the war is portrayed by optimist values using money and greed. Money weakens the values of even the most humble upperclassman making him vulnerable to the greed and

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