Blind Side Essay

character Gatsby and the novel. He uses literary devices such as, the Valley of Ashes and the green light, to point out what the American Dream can represent and what the consequences of it can be. The message seems to be leaning more towards the negative side, in my opinion. Overall the importance of wealth and competition in the novel seems to be of great significance. The American dream is displayed in various ways, it can be perceived as a negative thing for some people since wealth and…

One of the most prominent novels of the 1900s, "The Great Gatsby" is a staple in classic literature. Often mistakenly praised as a love story, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote "The Great Gatsby" as a satire for American ideals in the 1920s. He criticized social class, America's care-free society, and the idea of the American dream. In the novel, Fitzgerald uses the narrator, Nick Carraway, as a window into the lives of the wealthy people of East and West egg. The most prominent person from West Egg is…

In the novel, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald tells us a story of what it’s like to be wealthy and have all kinds of luxuries in the 1930’s. Jay Gatsby is a wealthy man who would throw huge parties with lots of alcohol and invite lots of party guests to try to impress Daisy, hoping she would fall in love with him. Not only does Fitzgerald illustrate the motifs of wealth, but also love. Love and wealth interact with each other in The Great Gatsby to create complex wealthy characters who know nothing…

In the hot and scorching summer of 1922, the impossible love story between Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby takes place. F. Scott Fitzgerald does a beautiful job of displaying the atrocious acts of the 20’s. The Great Gatsby captures it all from the sex, money, affairs, alcohol, and deaths. Through it all, Jay Gatsby was fighting for Daisy’s heart, though she was married to Tom Buchanan, it didn't seem to matter. Mr. Gatsby had a burning passion, fire and desire for Daisy. He didn't seem to…

First off, let me just say that I take all responsibility for what I did. In fact, I’m actually quite proud of it, I mean actually who can steal $17 billion dollars in the space of less than a year, let alone half of a year. I suppose that you want to know why I did it, and to that I have no better answer than that I wanted to see if I could do it. Marvin will try to tell you that I was bullied, and exploited, but honestly I thought that it was quite fun mooching off of those rich jerks who…

Discoveries that have changed this world forever have had great faults, but does that really make the discovery bad? Sometimes the mistakes that are made are the reason why the discovery was made, and sometimes it’s pure carelessness and laziness that cause them! In “Lost Cities, Lost Treasure”, Heinrich Schliemann dreamed of discovering treasures of the ancient world. He travels to a site where he believes he might find treasure. He meets Calvert. Unlike Heinrich, Calvert likes to keep his…

Shot in the Heart Gatsby’s heart being shot represents how heartbroken he is. The withered daisy’s represent how he hold Daisy close to his heart but their love is dying. The pain of being physically shot can be an equivalent to the emotional pain Gatsby feels from missing Daisy. It also can be associated with how Gatsby was shot by Wilson at the end of the novel. Gatsby's love costed him his life. Broken Clock The broken pocket watch is a metaphor for the long period of time Gatsby waited…

Jay Gatsby dreams higher than the moon and wider than the sky. In his own mind, Gatsby has created ideal life, one that he has build up since he was a young and impoverished boy. He grew up as Jimmy Gatz in North Dakota, with unimpressive parents and a simple lifestyle which prompted his thirst for riches. Nick noticed that Gatsby, “invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end.” Other children…

How the the other half lives written by Jacob Riis provides a very conflicted but rational scene upon which the development and state of living conditions were on the lower east side in the 19th century. Riis provided photographs of the streets, people, and tenement apartments he encountered, using black and white slides to coincide the text, his powerful images brought public attention to urban conditions giving us a visual understanding of his writing upon how the lower class lived.…

The shading green in the novel The Great Gatsby symbolizes diverse decisions Jay Gatsby makes all through his lifetime. The imagery that is utilized behind the shading green is mending, cash, eagerness, good fortune, and expectation. The green light toward the finish of the dock close to Daisy's home speaks to his quest for joy with Daisy Buchanan. "He extended his arms toward the dim water inquisitively, and far as I was from him I could have sworn he was trembling. Automatically I looked…