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I think that because the young people of the 20s were coming into rapidly changing social and economic norms, this book has the potential to speak to generations from eras such as those of Gen Z

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I think some of the characters in the book reflect teenager's feelings, as explained in the article. As the author said, many teenagers believe they can achieve anything with enough hard work, just like Gatsby. Additionally, most people who read the book hate Tom because he, on the other hand, represents everything someone wouldn't want to be. I think these characters reflect people's point of views in general, and in that way it's still relevant today. It's just not the kind of book I would choose to read in my spare time and therefore felt a bit long and boring. I generally don't like reading the books we have to read for school but the ideas expressed are still interesting.

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In my opinion, I feel that a person can learn a lot from The Great Gatsby. I feel like it helps us realize how certain motives are truly unhealthy for us as a generation. I do not agree that we can relate to the characters in the novel, because as teenagers our motives have changed and I feel that we to extent have a vision of a  happy life, which wouldn't have to include the perfect woman or any amount of money. I think we pity the fact that gatsby surrounded his life, his earnings, and his purpose towards a woman who truly had the wrong ideals in the end. I wish he had moved on from this woman and found a happier life with a happier purpose. Daisy never showed true concern for Gatsby's death; this shows how insincere she is in the end. I wish that Gatsby had spent more time caring about himself, because he ended up dying for a cause not even worth dying for. I truly, truly, pity gatsby and would never want to be like him. I feel like the book is worth reading, but is not something teenagers could "relate" to.

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I think the great gatsby is still relevant today because Gen Z is a generation of people looking to make an impact and be successful, and we have access to the resources required to do that, but it's just as possible with any generation to become  overly obsessed with the superficial aspects of life like wealth and love. I think the Great Gatsby is a good book to remind every generation how messy fame and fortune can be and it's not as luxurious as some would think.

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I think the themes in Great Gatsby are still very much relevant to today. Although a few outdated ideas are presented, they only provide a better glimpse into that era of history, and the main themes of love and ambition are timeless.

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I believe that the underlying principle that a success story can come from anywhere is very relevant. Even Gatsby's means of obtaining his wealth. The time period this was written is definitely a little outdated, though.

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I feel this book is very relevant today. It's a story about recreating yourself into something new, something better and I feel that that theme resonates within the youth today. Everybody wants to change their outward appearance and how they act for the better as they go from HIgh School into college. They want to change something about themselves in order to make themselves more appealing. Gatsby recreates his image and becomes a wealthy, powerful man which is a life some people want and strive for.

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I think The Great Gatsby is still relevant because everyone wants to still achieve what Gatsby has achieved. He has made himself wealthy and accomplished a lot. We all want to develop ourselves and change for what we think is better.

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I think it's still relevant because we can still relate to the feelings of the characters and learn more about the time period, but there are other books that discuss more relevant issues.

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I think that while the Great Gatsby has some overshadowing ideas/themes that are still relevant today, due to the gap in time between the period it was written and today, a lot of the mindsets and little things, including several of the "lessons" one can gain from the book, are a little outdated. Let's face it, our current generation and the generation during which this was written have multiple varying ideals and morals. I'd like to say that our generation (at least the people I surround myself with) look down on cheating and fantasizing about being with someone who's in a serious relationship with someone else more than the Great Gatsby portrayed that generation and society to. The book offers several valuable lessons to be gained, however there is a startling difference between that world and today's world that creates a larger issue when it comes to relating to the story and truly immersing oneself. Dialect, slang, even just simple words also play into this difficulty when it comes to understanding and relating.

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I believe that although this book is 100 years old it has life lessons that still hold true to life today. Additionally, I think it is important to read at least a few of the "classics".

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I think the Great Gatsby is still relevant today because it allows us to observe different moral/ethical lessons as an outsider, a perspective that is different from real life and is more objective. I also believe it is important because it shows the struggle lots of people have between trying to obtain wealth or love, which I feel like is something a lot of teenagers are trying to determine. The book exemplifies universal lessons/truths that will always be relevant no matter what day and age.

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I think that it's still relevant today because one of the main themes is the American Dream and the idea that you can start from nothing and still become successful. It also warns about how easily the dream can be corrupted when motivated by wealth and fame. While most of the events in the book aren't relevant to our generation, the underlying message is something we can still learn from.

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I think the Great Gatsby is relevant today because it explores universal themes that teenagers should be exposed to. Although some important themes like chasing the American dream have been redefined in a new era, it is important for younger generations to be exposed to themes of the past.

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I think this novel is still relevant today, especially the part the article described about kids our age yearning for a sense of freedom. I know college is on a lot of our minds, and although many of us love Texas and our home we want the opportunity to explore other places and do things we may consider "bigger" with our lives, which relates to the feeling of accomplishment Gatsby obtains when he creates a life of wealth for himself.

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I think that it's still a good book to read the perspective of the 1920s is very interesting. The desire to be rich is still present in today's society. However the reasons she gives for why it's relevant I don't agree with. I didn't fall for gatsby's passion. I'm not impressed by his dedication to a married woman.

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The ideas portrayed by the characters are still relatable to our generation because every teen has the ability to comprehend the emotions whether or not they do, and the ideas still remain constant even though the book is still based in the 20's.

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The Great Gatsby is still very relevant to our current generation because of how passionate and full of romantic notions our generation is, which could relate to Gatsby's passion for life. This generation hopes for so much, for the possibility that change could happen, which is pretty similar to how Gatsby viewed life. Even with that in mind, I don't think that young people see themselves in Gatsby, mostly because his main goal in life was to become rich in order to win the love of his life and that is something that really doesn't apply to the current world anymore. In other words, most current teenagers are seeking for their own definition of happiness rather than seeking for wealth.

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I don't believe the book is as relevant as this author makes it out to be. Sure the book covers themes that relate to teenagers but I think this Author expects too much from a teenager. From what I've seen most people my age don't have these feeling of intense passion like the author suggest.

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Is The Great Gatsby still relevant today?

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Is The Great Gatsby still relevant today?

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Read the brief article, and then add a post explaining your perspective on whether the novel is still relevant to Gen Z today. Respond to at least one of your classmates posts.

From The NewYork Times, April 12, 2018 by Jesmyn Ward. Jesmyn Ward is the author of “Sing, Unburied, Sing,” winner of the 2017 National Book Award. This essay is adapted from her introduction to a new edition of “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published this month by Scribner.

I first read “The Great Gatsby” as a teenager; I imagine this is when most Americans encounter F. Scott Fitzgerald’s seminal work. Our teachers, rightly so, hail the novel as a masterpiece, so we read it under their influence, when we are young. We read it when we are bewildered and delighted at our changing bodies, flush with burgeoning sexuality, heady with the certainty of our ascendancy, the prospect of our future greatness shining off in the distance like a great green star.

It is easy for young people to see themselves in Gatsby. His earnestness is familiar. His ambition, twinned with desperation, resonates with any teenager who wants to journey off to college or move states away for work, in a bid to escape youthful boundaries. Poverty made Gatsby ravenously desperate for difference, for possibility. Some, perhaps from similar circumstances, will recognize that and see themselves. Others will empathize because they feel driven away by parents who don’t understand them, by peers who underestimate or limit them, by the larger culture that ostracizes them for one reason or another. Their hearts will be, as Gatsby’s was, “in a constant, turbulent riot.” The “instinct toward … future glory” leads them out into the world. They burn to flee, to grow beyond their birth circumstances. In some ways, adolescence is one great flight.

Teenage readers are especially understanding of Gatsby’s fixation on recreating that moment when his life was most open to possibility, when he could become and do anything. When he believed that if he worked hard enough, he could remake himself. He could ascend to a different social class, a class where life seemed to be an enchanted necklace, each moment a pearl on an endless string. It seems to be a universal sentiment of youth: the belief that, given the luxury of time and focus, one can become anything. Young readers walk down tree-lined Louisville streets with Gatsby and Daisy as the leaves fall. They see a ladder “mounted to a secret place above the trees. … Once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder.” The young know that golden moment when anything can happen, and they understand its allure because they are living it.

By the end of the book, the reader’s empathy has burned to love. Young readers fall for Gatsby’s passion, his insistence that life should be relished, should be executed well. They have fallen in love with the persistence of his devotion to Daisy. I imagine they like to think they are capable of such a great love, one that smolders, lasting from year to year. They adore him so much, they feel a quiet disdain for those who do not possess his virtues: perhaps most of all for Tom, who embodies the worst excesses of the moneyed elite, the misogynistic, the racist. They pity Nick, too, because they understand he has fallen in love with Gatsby; readers understand that Nick doesn’t deserve Gatsby. Even though he insists he is not carelessly violent like Tom or Daisy, the young understand that Nick is as much a product of his social class as Tom, that its backwardness and insularity mark him as much as they do Tom and Daisy.

This is a book that endures, generation after generation, because every time a reader returns to “The Great Gatsby,” we discover new revelations, new insights, new burning bits of language. Read and bear witness to the story’s permanence, its robust heart. Read and bear witness to Jay Gatsby, who burned bright and bold and doomed as his creator. Read.