... working and dirty.As for the casting decisions for the most part the actors chosen to play the roles did a good job there were times throughtout the film were i would forget i was watching a movie thats how realistic it was.The film location was also good because the way the novel describes everything the film was exactly the same for the most part except ... . As well as the green light Fitzgerald drops other symbols like the valley of ashes. The valley of ashes represents societies moral and social decadence. These decreases are generally and mainly caused as a result of their unrestra...

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• Grade Level: High School

... at many quintessential elements a great novel possesses such as: story plot, themes, lesson, and language. To create these things an author must establish a variety of characters, as do in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, Chaim Potok's The Chosen, and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. The reoccurring factor of opposite characters transpires in all three novels. Which gives depth and fulfillment ... to these novels. To begin with, David Malter and Reb Saunders, two characters from The Chosen, differ greatly. Reb Saunders, the Hassidic Rabbi and father of Dan...

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• Grade Level: High School

... a dream from his past but did not succeed, the same problem many others were facing during this time period as well. Throughout this book Fitzgerald uses an immense amount of pathetic fallacy. Gatsby and Daisy's reunion takes place in the middle of a storm and just as the storm fades away, their love begins to rekindle. Gatsby's intense confrontation with Tom occurs on the hottest ... day of summer and Gatsby's murder occurs on the first day of fall and ironically he is swimming in his pool ... and new wealth and houses the poor. Last the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg can be assumed to...

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• Grade Level: High School