Great Books

there five years ago. I found that they have the movie night event every month, so I am already looking forward for my next visit here. Before the newer version of The Great Gatsby movie came out in 2013, I decided to get the book and read it before I watch the movie. I still remembered that I felt in love with this book immediately after I read through couple pages of the first chapter. I have always wanted to watch the older version of the movie because a lot of my…

In The Great Gatsby, the party in New York City is not only a show of carelessness common with that time period, but also is a defining event for many characters in the novel. This scene in the book shows Nick, Tom, Myrtle, Myrtle’s sister, and a couple named McKee partying in Tom’s apartment reserved for his affair with Myrtle. Nick states that this party is the second time he has been drunk in his lifetime. The party continues with excessive drinking and repulsive conversation until Tom…

The two versions of “The Great Gatsby,” the novel and movie, are similar and different in many ways. They both surround the mystery of the great Gatsby himself, his past shrouded in mystery and deceit. Yet, these two versions have some differences. From Nick having different ways of first being presented, to the difference in glamour of Gatsby’s first party of the story, to the additional setting that is presented through the movie, that was not presented in the opening of the novel, nor the…

English 3GT- 4th 12 January 2017 The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby is a story told by Nick Carraway, who was Gatsby’s neighbor, this essay will talk about the incidents that happen throughout the book and movie. Following the description of this incident, Nick catches his mysterious neighbor, who hosts weekly parties for the rich and fashionable. I will explain the differences and similarities to the book and movie. There was many similarities between the book and movie. One of the…

There are lots of scenes in movies that aren’t mention in the books. Sometimes, reading the book is more better than watching the movie because the film is sometimes confusing and also doesn’t actually have a scene where the book describe. In The Great Gatsby, I chose the character Gatsby because I have notice some stuff in the film that is different than the novel that involves with this character. Like in the beginning of the book where Nick title his story his friends name, when Gatsby took…

adaption of F. Scott Fitzgerald's iconic book The Great Gatsby and Woody Allen’s 2011 homage in A Midnight in Paris both were very effective in their representations of the book. They were however, effective in different ways. Baz Luhrmann chose excellent actors that played the parts very well and chose the most important scenes of the book to be depicted in the movie. Woody Allen’s homage had characters that parallel those in the book. In the movie The Great Gatsby, Leonardo DiCaprio plays the…

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is considered as one of America’s greatest historical novels. Because of this, it is no surprise that Hollywood would decide to rip off this American classic rather than creating its own original work. The director of the film, Baz Luhrmann, clearly has many differences with F. Scott Fitzgerald. The most noticeable distinction between the two being their seventy year difference in age. Perhaps Luhrmann didn’t think it was enough to brutally appropriate…

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby is a rich, hopeful, and charismatic man who is in love with Daisy Buchanan. Daisy is married to Tom, but even that doesn’t stop Gatsby. Nick, Daisy’s cousin, brings her and Gatsby back into each others lives after five years. The book and the novel were portrayed slightly different from each other than one would imagine they would be. I feel as though the novel gave more depth to the feelings of the main characters, whereas, the characters…

The Great Essay Although F.Scott Fitzgerald 's story The Great Gatsby has similarities to both Clayton’s and Luhrmann’s visual preference of the story; There are many things that make each of them unique and individual. For example, when Daisy tells Gatsby how she loves him but also Tom, the costumes that the characters wear are meaningful, and when Gatsby got shot by Mr. Wilson, these come together to create its greater complexity. They all have something in common, but they were made by a…

a land in which life should be better, richer and fuller for every man, with opportunity for each according to his ability or achievement.” The American Dream is a central theme emphasized in Fitzgerald’s novel “The Great Gatsby”. It’s also recreated into the 2013 Great Gatsby film. The film and movie are contrasted by Gatsby’s death and whether he accomplished his dreams. In the film, Gatsby dies believing that he won. He awaits Daisy’s call and decides to go for a swim…