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The Great Gatsby Response Essay

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Tired of reading the same boring ol’ books? Unsure of what book to read next? Don’t fret; you’ve come to the right spot. As an esteemed literary critic, I will share my expert advice and help you through this serious plight. If you haven’t noticed, the literature of the 1920’s is quite avant-garde. Books are more direct, modern, and untraditional - some may even contain scandalous themes!
My first recommendation is the iconoclastic The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This novel has received many derogatory reviews due to its “shallowness” and style, but personally, I’ve grown quite fond of it. If you’re a romantic, then this is the book for you! Readers will be emotionally invested in Gatsby’s love life and on the edge of their seat until the end of the book. Any lover of literature can’t help but appreciate Fitzgerald’s euphonious and evocative prose. The Great Gatsby truly captures the spirit of the “Roaring Twenties,” touching upon the fervent desire for opulence, ignorance …show more content…

Universally acclaimed as a moving and beautiful tale, A Farewell to Arms weaves a love story between an American Lieutenant and English nurse. This literary work boasts of Hemingway’s unique literary style - featuring his remarkable sense of humor, honest diction, and terse tone. Like many authors of the time, Ernest Hemingway’s work reflects World War 1 and describes the horror as well as the futility of war, itself. Hemingway exposes the truth behind war and explores the struggle, courage, and loss associated with war. If you want a realistic and heartwarming tale, a book that will make you cry from laughter and from sorrow, then this novel is perfect for you. Just to give you a taste of the beautiful and powerful language in this text, savor this quote: “The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places.” Hooked

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The Great Gatsby - Critical Response to Text Cait Loewen ELA 20-1 If an individual creates the idea of a better life they will go to their wits end to make it true. In F . Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway narrates his time with Jay Gatsby, his wealthy neighbour who is attempting to pursue his idealistic lifestyle.

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In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the overarching idea is the desired American dream, which is narrated by Nick Caraway to the world in a very erratic and confusing way. Caraway paints the picture of the American Dream in the early 1900s by showing the audience the behind the scenes look at what it takes to achieve this ideal life. Throughout the novel the ideas of dreams, love, and wealth help illustrate the deeper meaning of the text, but Jay Gatsby appears to bring all of them together to represent the complete American dream as he too struggles for his perfect life. Over the course of the book, the recurring idea of dreams seems to be a big part of Jay Gatsby’s character. The idea of dreams is a major part of Gatsby’s life, as

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Durazo 1 Fabian Durazo Mrs. Jacobson English IV 15 March 2016 Great Gatsby Log 7-9 I would recommend this book to a friend who is interested in romantic drama. In chapter seven, on the hottest day of the summer, Nick, Gatsby, Daisy, Tom, and Jordan decide to go to town for lunch. Tom, Nick and Jordan, take Gatsby's car while Daisy and Gatsby take Tom's car. On their way to town, Tom stops by Wilson's garage where Myrtle observes the group.

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Title:The Great Gatsby Author: Text Type: Date:7-4-16 Name: Georgia Dyson This is a novel that is narrated by a man named Nick Carraway, we see his perspective on his neighbour, Jay Gatsby's life and how he created his own American dream. The Great Gatsby is interesting to year 12s because it shows the importance of staying true to yourself when chasing your dreams, this may not occur in our high school days but because we are about to head into adulthood this is very important for us to learn now. Fitzgerald teaches us the consequences of being too involved in a dream that may not be worth chasing after, he also shows us how we need to sacrifice a lot to get there.

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Have you ever read the novel “The great Gatsby?” If so you probably found so many themes throughout the entire novel. But you also found that things did not go the way you thought they would, but if you haven’t read the novel “The great Gatsby” then let me tell you a little something about it. In “The great Gatsby” the novel takes place on Long Island on two places.

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I could have done so much with my life, but it has all gone to ruin with one decision. Many years ago, as a teenager, I found doing well in school to pose no challenge to me. While the ‘pipsqueaks’ - the generally compliant students who sat in the front, were shy and lacked courage, I was not afraid of talking and argued when need be. When a pipsqueak in the front requested to learn how to factor an equation, the teacher, Mr. Castor, attempted to help. By repeating, “Oh, just look at page 239, section 4”, and gesturing at the book, he expected Sonia to understand the concept.

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The Great Gatsby written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald published in New York at April 10, 1925 by Charles Scribner’s Sons. It has hailed as a standout among those first classic bits of American fiction from claiming its run through. It is a magnificent novel of romance and tragedy; this is something literary and social commentary of history, which has a fictional characters and events in an historical setting. In the Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald known to as much imagistic also wonderful prose, holds a mirror up to the public society of which he might have been a part. In 1925, however, the novel served as a preview of the furious post-war social order known as the jazz Age.

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My objective of this writing piece focuses on my viewpoint on the aspect of the character’s performance on the novel “The Great Gatsby”, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This novel depicts on a life of a person among the affluent with his American’s dream. However, in my own perspective as a reader, this novel shows the lack of moral and ethics of the character throughout the novel. I attempted to achieve my objective through the text type of front-page newspaper because it is formative kind of text type. This written task revolves on the main character in the novel.

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The novel that I would like to talk about would be The Great Gatsby, mainly because Gatsby's past affected him in a positive way. We all know that Gatsby is considered "New Money," however, there is obviously a story behind all of this. First, I would like to talk about how Gatsby is the only child, and mainly people would usually think that an only child will live the life they please, especially when they're kids. However, in this case Gatsby did not live the life he wanted; although, his parents tried to make him as happy as possible, there was only so much they could do.

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• F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book The Great Gatsby is a book of mystery, love, and social observation of the American lifestyle. • The Great Gatsby is a story narrated by Nick Carraway who used to be Gatsby's neighbor, and he tells the story after 1922, when the events that fill the book had happened. As the story begins, Nick has recently moved from the Midwest to West Egg looking for his fortune as a bond salesman. •

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I did not enjoy this book as much as the other. I thought that this book was kind of slow sometimes which made it hard for me to get into and enjoy. It was not slow the whole time, but when it was I did not enjoy reading it as much. That is just my opinion. Jay Gatsby did the wrong things for the right reasons.

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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is filled with romance, mystery, betrayal and a look on the American dream. Set in the 1920s, the book starts off with the narrator, Nick Carraway, who moves from Minnesota to New York finding his passion of the bond business. He moves to West Egg on Long Island. Through Nick’s eyes, you see the lives of Jay Gatsby, Daisy, Myrtle, and Tom Buchanan’s lives collide and implode. This book wasn’t very ideal, although it did have some good and bad moments such as, how confusing the plot was, the characters, and the overall thoughts of the book.

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Commentary is used by the majority of writers in order to depict the author’s beliefs about a subject that is usually prevalent at the time it was written. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses his commentary to explain his ideologies about several factors in the American’s life, such as the time period of the 1920’s, the American Dream and social stratification. He also uniquely utilizes the setting to illustrate his ideologies. The first commentary that is offered is about the 1920’s woman.

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That’s my Middle West—not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns, but the thrilling returning trains of my youth, and the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of the holly wreaths thrown by lighted windows on the snow. I am part of that, a little solemn with the feel of those long winters, a little complacent from growing up in the Carraway house in a city where dwellings are still called through decades by a family name. I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all—Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.” To claim that “this has been a story of the West” after everything we’ve seen is unexpected way of summing up the novel. But let’s go with Nick for a moment.

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 In conclusion to this book review, The Great Gatsby, was a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald that I had the pleasure of reading. The Great Gatsby has resulted in six major film productions ranging from 1926-2013. The novel and all six films put a lot of life's values into perspective. Jay Gatsby’s wealth was unable to buy him the only thing he yearned for most, love and happiness. In the eyes of others he seemed as if he had everything he could possibly want right there in front of

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