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Zora Neale Hurtson
Who were they?
Writer and Anthropologist
Why were they important?
Hurston moved to New York City's Harlem neighborhood in the 1920s. She became a fixture in the area's thriving art scene, with her apartment reportedly becoming a popular spot for social gatherings. Hurston befriended the likes of Langston Hughers and Countee Cullen, among several others, with whom she launched a short-lived literary magazine, Fire!!
Along with her literary interests, Hurston landed a scholarship to Barnard College, where she pursued the subject of anthropology.
Overcome false accusations and tricky times in her career to show that people of color in the art world would persevere until they got what they deserved

What was their contribution to the time period?
"Their eyes were watching God"- The novel tells the story of Janie Mae Crawford, who learns the value of self-reliance through multiple marriages and tragedy.
"How it Feels to be a Colored Me"- The novel tells the story of Janie Mae Crawford, who learns the value of self-reliance through multiple marriages and tragedy.

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Early 20th century movement in which writers and artists of color explored what it meant to be black and what it means to be an American and what it means to be both at the same time.
Social, political, and artistic movement.
Impact?
Artists attempted to mix high and low culture.
Importance?
The American Dream was still being denied for most African Americans, but most artist remained optimistic in their art that they would experience it one day.
Why does it fit in 20s?
At the time of the Great Gatsby colored people, like Langston Hughes, were emerging in art. African American began to explore their ability to write poems, draw and paint, create jazz and blues music, all which became popular in this time period. Although blacks were not getting everything in which America "promised", art was opening doors during the time period of the Great Gatsby.

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Who were they?
F. Scott Fitzgerald- American short-story writer and novelist famous for his depictions of the Jazz Age
Zelda Sayre- Daughter of Alabama Supreme Court Judge
What was their relationship like?
Originally, upon moving to New York to get a job and marry Zelda, when Scott only got a low paying job, Zelda broke off the engagement. However, when he went back to Princeton and got his writing published, Zelda and him soon married.
What was F. Scott's motivation for his writing?
Morality of the young, including marriage and success of young people.
How did they represent the 1920's?
Wrote many successful pieces during the 1920s. Their relationship was highly famous and romanticized over.
Two key interesting facts you learned
- F. Scott Fitzgerald was a drunk.
-Died of  a heart attack halfway through finishing a book.

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Great Gatsby is the character in the title of the Novel, as well as the protagonist. He is a very young, good-looking, rich man that lives in an edgy mansion in the West Egg. However, no one really knows where he came from, how he got there, or really anything about him. As you read the book, Nick finds out that Gatsby isn't actually his name, but rather he was born James Gatz on a farm in North Dakota. He worked under the control of a billionaire in which he promised to devote his lie to gaining wealth and social class. Sadly, Nick also learns that Gatsby earns a lot of his money through criminal activity. While on the job, Gatsby met Daisy in Louisvillle and began to fall in love with her.

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Daisy is the cousin of Nick as well as the love interest of Gatsby. She also fell in love with Gatsby and promised she would wait for him. However, this doesn't happen, as Tom Buchanan, a young, wealthy man grabs the heart of a vulnerable Daisy. Daisy lives in the East Egg with Tom, right across from Gatsby. SHe is very honest in almost a way it comes off as rude, but contanlty doesnt act as herslef because of the hurt she experoences from her husband consanly cheating on her.

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Tom is Daisy's extremely rich husband. He was previously friends with Nick through Yale's Social Club. his family was very famous back in their day, and he still carries their arrogant and hypocritical attitude. He i very racist and sexist, and even when told to be more accepting, he ignores those demands as well. After having an affair with Myrtle, he feels no regret. But once he beleivves Gatsby and Daisy are having an affiar, he becomes angry and hostile.

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Daisy's friend and Nick's love interest throughout the book. She is a "new woman" of the age, meaning she is more boyish, selfish, and competitive. She loves golf as well. Beautiful but not honest. She lied to win her first golf match.

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Tom's lover who s married to George, a man who runs a rundown garage. George is madly in love with her, but she still has an affair with Tom. Tom simply uses her as an object for his sexual desire, a move she will regret for the rest of her life.

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Myrtle's boring husband who owns a trashy auto shop. He is madly in love with her and is devastated when he discovered the affair between Myrtle and Tom. He becomes very depressed when Myrtle is killed despite her affair. George and Gatsby are seen to be very similar, as they both dream for a better future and fall in love with women who love Tom.

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Gatsby's friend who is known for his role in organized crime. He helped Gatsby make a life of money from a liquor scandal. Even when Gatsby is said to be done with illegal crime, this friendship hints that this is not true.

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Nick is the narrator of the book. He is originally from Minnesota and studied at Yale University before going to fight in World War 1. He came to New York City in hopes of learning about business. Nick is seen as a very trusting person, ad people with deep, dark secrets confide in him. Nick moves to the West Egg where he becomes friends with his next door neighbor, Gatsby. Nick is also cousins with Daisy, and ends up setting her up with Gatsby.

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The Great Gatsby takes place in 2 pieces of land extending from New York City referred to as the East and West Egg. West and East Egg serve as stand-ins for the real life locations of two peninsulas along the northern shore of Long Island. In the middle of the 2 eggs is the “valley of ashes,” where Myrtle and George Wilson have a run-down garage. The full rang of the differences between social classes is showed in the setting. The Valley of Ashes represents the part of society in poverty, while the eggs represent the area where people are able to live comfortably. It is emphasized who close these 2 different ways of living are so close to one another to emphasize how corrupt society is. While both eggs are wealthy, the East Egg s based on the wealth that people inherit from old family and friends, while the West Egg residents acquired "new money" to live lavishly.

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The Valley of Ashes depicted in the novel represents the Social Class present in New York City. With people living in poverty so close to the wealthy, it goes to show that social society was so corrupt and people were still running society as teat of the structure of Europe. The difference of the way people of the East and West Egg goes to show that while a person might be wealthy, they aren't the wealthiest, and society is still ordered. "She was the first "nice" girl he had ever known. In various unrevealed capacities he had come in contact with such people but always with indiscernible barbed wire between. He found her excitingly desirable. He went to her house, at first with other officers from Camp Taylor, then alone. It amazed him—he had never been in such a beautiful house before. But what gave it an air of breathless intensity was that Daisy lived there—it was as casual a thing to her as his tent out at camp was to him. There was a ripe mystery about it, a hint of bedrooms upstairs more beautiful and cool than other bedrooms, of gay and radiant activities taking place through its corridors and of romances that were not musty and laid away already in lavender but fresh and breathing and redolent of this year's shining motor cars and of dances whose flowers were scarcely withered. It excited him too that many men had already loved Daisy—it increased her value in his eyes. He felt their presence all about the house, pervading the air with the shades and echoes of still vibrant emotions. (8.10)

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The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are a pair of fading, bespectacled eyes painted on an old advertising billboard over the valley of ashes. They may represent God staring down upon and judging American society as a moral wasteland. The way of life in America did not appear as the vision intended due to the separation of social class. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning——" (9.153-154)>

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Marriage is seen throughout the novel, specifically Daisy and Tom's relationship is intensified. Their marriage is for sure not healthy, as they both have affairs during their pursuit of one another. This alone goes to show that just because 2 people are married does not mean they are in love with one another. Also, the role of women in marriage is also glorified, as Daisy marries Tom because she fees the need to be appreciated as a wife, not actually because Tom has her heart. "Your wife doesn't love you," said Gatsby. "She's never loved you. She loves me" (7.238).

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Their differences between types of wealth in people is really prevalent in this novel. While both eggs are wealthy, the East Egg s based on the wealth that people inherit from old family and friends, while the West Egg residents acquired "new money" to live lavishly. People will do anything to become Wealthy. Gatsby surrenders his life t join in on crimes and criminal activity to gain wealth. “Her voice is full of money,” he said suddenly"(7.105-106).

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"On Sunday morning while church bells rang in the villages along the shore the world and its mistress returned to Gatsby’s house and twinkled hilariously on his lawn." While the people of the Eggs claim to be religious, it is quite obvious that the are putting wealth before everything else especially religion.