The Color of Money

For L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, color takes a center part in the novel. The story centers on young Dorothy, a farm girl in Kansas who is tired of her dreary life. Her home is dreary and gray. After her house get caught in a cyclone she wakes up in Oz, a land filled with beauty. She meets companions on her journey home and fights the evil witch of the west. Throughout the novel the reader is exposed to different colors. These colors are gray, blue, and green, and they symbolize…

Colors often give a certain richness and vitality to the world around us and onlookers see them to represent more than their appearance. For example, when you see the color blue you think of sadness and, similarly, red is seen as anger or rage. In the jazz age novel, The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald, color symbolism is very apparent and the associations with them are seen as well. Told through the eyes of Nick Carraway, the novel is about a successful, newly rich, man by the name of Jay…

He is constantly pretending to be someone that he is not. He tries to earn a bunch of money and tries to be a big shot, just to get Daisy to come back to him, but that’s not who he truly is. We don’t know his exact job and how he earned this money but in the book, he’s friends with Meyer Wolfsheim, who’s a Jewish mobster, and Tom says, "I found out what your 'drug-stores' were,” so he probably earned his money in an illegal way. This is situational irony because his “job” requires him to be…

month can be a large waste of money. Some people spend as much as $150 dollars for a trip to the salon. Dying your own hair is extremely simple! Learning how to successfully dye your hair at home can save you a lot of time and money. When dying your hair, you first want to select a color. Choosing a subtle color you’re comfortable with is the best option when dying your hair for the first time. Most people start off small and then move onto the more extreme colors like blonde to black or the…

complicated and messy thing, especially when it’s faked for protection and money. Daisy Buchanan is an excellent example of this complicated love. She tends to flirt with a lot of men and can never make up her mind for whom she is actually devoted to. She is much too young and irresponsible to actually make choices for herself and relies on all the men she is with to make the decisions for her. Daisy is just a girl who is charmed by money and men. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the…

How does color depict emotions? That question encouraged me to ask people if there 's a relationship between color and emotion. The majority answered me saying “color is life”. That statement was very interesting to me as a researcher and I asked furthermore. What did they mean by “color is life”? To my understanding, color affects people 's emotions and behavior. Color has the greatness to speak for people, it 's a basic way to describe a person 's life. Those who want to express themselves se…

“Baby bonds” were proposed mostly for families of color in order to equal the playing fields with white families. These bonds would be allotted based by wealth, where the child could take out up to 60,000 dollars after they turned 18 for educational purposes, to buy a house, or for retirement. In order to get others on board with these big changes, transformation of social norms must be instilled, along with a change in policies. This would only decrease the advantages whites receive from the…

consequentiality of the many symbolic elements in The Great Gatsby plays a role in revealing the characters, the underlying themes of the American Dream, and enhancing the novel. Fitzgerald deftly utilizes the Valley of Ashes, the billboard, and the color yellow as symbols to advance his plot and enhance the quality of the novel.…

Throughout literary history, authors have used various colors as important symbolism in many different genres of literature. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel “The Great Gatsby,” he is able to use a surplus of colors as symbolism in his story. Not only are these colors used as symbolism, but some of them actually impact the outcome of the story. Some of the colors are feeling based, like the color green. The Great Gatsby is about a poor man named Jay Gatsby who eventually becomes rich, he also has…

freedoms are our freedoms everyone receives such as, pursuit of happiness, life, and liberty no matter what ethnicity, race, or color one is. Throughout the first half of the twentieth century “organized baseball” does not follow these values. This ranges…