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¨The Great Gatsby¨ and ¨Outliers¨ are similar in the fact of wealth playing a big role . But different story's have different views on Wealth. For example, Nick sees Gatsby's lavish and expensive lifestyle. Gatsby's mysterious wealth and wish for Daisy is evident throughout the story. Outliers examines success in different ways than people usually would. Focusing on external factors that contribute to success such as culture, right timing, and opportunity. While The Great Gatsby shows the lifestyle and status that comes with wealth, Outliers has a more structured view with emphasis on many different factors. They have many similarities but offer different insights.

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The Outliers show that people with advantages are more likely to achieve success. This shows a similarity that for example Tom having the advantages of having money and being wealthy compared to others, shows that he is more likely to get what he wants. He does this by showing off to others. As an example Daisy was attracted to him and one of the first things she noticed was his extreme look for wealth, when she saw him showing off his wealth and wearing his fancy clothes and accessories she immediately wanted him and was impressed. Because of this he was able to get Daisy. In the Outliers for example the Canadian hockey player who raised to the top of his sport and was found by a scout and having the advantages of having an early birthday and being above the others on the team, being more mature and physically having an advantage to be bigger and better than the others.

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In the first chapter of "Outliers" the author talks about how success can come to some people who don't necessarily always earn it. In The "Outliers" the people who are picked out in the sport of hockey as kids gain advantages that the others don't. This sets them up for success while the others don't even get a chance. This success can come in the form of money as shown in The Great Gatsby. This parallels to Tom Buchanan who was born into money and now has "old money". He has inherited money from his relatives and parents and has not had to work for it and earn it as opposed to the people who live in the valley of ashes. These people work everyday just to basically afford to live and they have no hope of leaving the valley of ashes for a better life. It shows how some advantages can set someone up for life while others struggle everyday to get to the level of others.

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In the second chapter of the non-fiction book, "Outliers" we can connect to the characters in "The Great Gatsby" by maturity. While we don't know the birthdays of the characters in the book, we can use it to rate their success. In the Outliers book, it says that people born earlier in the year have a higher success rate than later in the year because of maturity and more opportunities throughout the year. If we compare this concept to The Great Gatsby, then Jay Gatsby would be considered 'younger' because he is working towards wealth. Unlike Nick who had wealth at a young age, up until he was older. Nick is still wealthy, but not showy like Gatsby. So by Outlier logic, Nick would technically be 'older' because of the opportunities he had earlier in life.

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The Outliers and The Great Gatsby are two stories that are very interconnected as many of the points made are contributed within both. Throughout the Outliers and The Great Gatsby many people who were defined as rich had a very similar way of dealing with things as well as the way they were seen. For example, within both of these time periods many people who were known as "successful" or "rich" were seen smoking cigars or physically dealed with challenges in the same manor. In the Outliers, after the team won they had celebrated by going in the locker room and the conditions were stated as, "The air was filled with cigar smoke and the smell of champagne and sweat-soaked hockey gear" (page 16). Many people within these time periods used alcohol and things like cigars (bad toxins) to celebrate. Same within the Great Gatsby, at the parties, almost every person who attended had been seen with some type of alcohol beverages or cigars of some. This correlates to the idea of the sterotype that the "rich" and "successful" had at this time. But in the Outliers they mainly approached the point that success isn't always developed by how you were born. Even though Gatsby states that he is was born into his success and rich that is not necessarily true. They also emphasized the point on how age plays an important role in the hockey players success in the team. This is also shown as in the Great Gatsby people were eligible to be drafted by the age of 18 into the way which Gatsby was apart of and that is part of why he didn't get to finish his love with Daisy. Overall, there are many factors that are important and interconnect together including age, time, success (rich), and more.

_ Camryn Szokoli

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Megan LaMena

There are several parallels that can be drawn between the Great Gatsby novel and chapter one, The Matthew Effect, of Outliers. The main idea of the excerpt from Outliers is that sometimes in life we are given advantages that we did not necessarily earn, and disadvantages that we don't deserve. An example of one parallel would be between Jay Gatsby and the Canadian hockey players, and their advantages and disadvantages in life. Many of the Canadian hockey players have become well known professionals due to their early birthdays that benefited them by getting them better coaches and access to better teams, than players with later birthdays. This is an example of an advantage because the players with the early birthdays got better resources to become better players, even though they didn't do anything to deserve that special treatment. Along with that, Gatsby in the novel is involved in bootlegging. Gatsby was at a disadvantage because he was called to war, and therefore wasn't able to work an honest job to make his money in the way that someone like Tom Buchanan worked. These points show that life can be unfair because we are given beneficial and harmful things that we don't really deserve. Jay Gatsby was at an unfair disadvantage because he was called to war and wasn't able to get started on making a living as quick as someone like Tom was, and the hockey players with early birthdays were at an advantage because they got better resources than other players.

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The Great Gatsby and Outliers are similar because in both stories it shows the similarities and differences between people who have always had advantages and the people that had to work hard for their success. An example of this is from Outlier when the chart showed that most of the hockey players on the team were born earlier in the year because of the eligibility cutoff which gave the players on the team an advantage. In the Great Gatsby Nick and Tom already had success because of their family. This made it easier for them to make more money because they would have more opportunities.

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"Outliers" and "The Great Gatsby" are connected in that "Outliers" discusses the factors of success, advantages and disadvantages and how hard certain people have to work for their goals. "The Great Gatsby" shows this through many examples but one is the parallels between Tom and Gatsby. If Gatsby was never drafted for war or if money wasn't an issue, Daisy and him would probably be together. Gatsby also had to work that much harder to try and be with Daisy because he didn't have as much money as her family wanted him to have. If he was born into money like Tom, he wouldn't have to work as hard for what he has now. As for Tom, he was always known as a smart, popular, outgoing, and rich man, however this means he didn't have to work as hard as Gatsby. These examples from "The Great Gatsby" are similar to the examples in "Outliers" in that Gatsby had to work so much harder than Tom to get what he wanted, similar to how younger kids playing hockey have to work that much harder to be up to standard with the older kids.

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The Great Gatsby and Outliers can be shown to have similarities in terms of success among people who have minor advantages which later on become larger advantages as life goes on. This is shown in Making of the Mob when a small time street gang like Luciano's becomes larger and larger to the point that they are running the underground businesses of America. A similar thing can be inferred with people like Meyer Wolfstein and Gatsby who have similar actions and personalities to those who helped Luciano move up in the mob or resemble Luciano himself.

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In Outliers and the Great Gatsby there are many similarities to getting opportunities in order to be successful. This claim is also especially true to the people like Tom, Daisy and Jay, who were able to climb the social ladder in order to get the wealth they have today. In Outliers, it claims people don't rise from nothing, they must have means and connections (networking) in order to be known and to get the money needed in order to sustain their extravagant lifestyles. In the Great Gatsby, this is especially true, because of the parties Jay hosts which is a way for people to get to know him and his means so that he can be more influential to those around him and to maintain his reputation. "Really? I was down there at a party about a month ago. At a man named Gatsby’s. Do you know him?’ ‘I live next door to him.’ (Fitzgerald 42 on PDF) This shows how being successful isn't just from money alone but the people you know and how they can help you get to the very top.

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I believe that the connection between the Outliers text and the Great Gatsby is the nepotism, or advantages people with things such as; more money etc. have. Mainly all of the characters in the Great Gatsby are rich and were born rich. They are able to have such connections to throw these lavish parties because of the families they were born into. in the Outliers the author is describing advantages just in the sports realm. Hockey players who start off at a younger age, (this also has to do with their families and being able to afford putting their children in hockey lessons) often have higher advantages and are usually the players that are in the big leagues. The main takeaway from these texts is that often times people have advantages in their lives because of the circumstances they were born into.

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Both writings show how things are either easier or harder depending on what type of environment you are born in. Some people are born with advantages that may seem small at first but can become more advantageous over time. Like with the birthdays people who were born just 10 months apart may not seem so different. But once they start to grow up, now 10 month older kids are miles ahead when it comes to physical capabilities and maturity. This is also apparent in the Great Gatsby. Tom was born into a rich family and was always surrounded by wealth, therefore he is not as appreciative to the little things as someone who was born with less money would be. Jay had to work for his wealth for he was not always rich. He was able to work his way into wealth and create a better life, this took a lot more effort than it did for Tom so I assume he is more appreciative of the things he has because he actually put in the work to earn it

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Between Outliers and the Great Gatsby one similarity is the main theme of success in both books. The first chapter of Outliers begins by exploring what makes people successful, and introducing the idea that success isn't just about personal effort but also about external factors, like background and opportunities. Along with the The Great Gatsby The narrative begins with reflections on wealth and privilege, establishing the novel’s exploration of the dream life and the concept of success and high-class lifestyles. In summary, both books open with a focus on success and the complexities.

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The Great Gatsby and the outliers are similar because it shows that you don't have to be rich to be successful. For example Daisy, Nick, and Tom were born very wealthy unlike others who have to work for it. But in the outliers the hockey players that were a lot older then the other hockey players and a very fair advantage because they were older, stronger, and faster then the younger kids. SO the Younger kids had to work harder to try to be as good as the older kids.

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The Great Gatsby and Outliers are similar because It shows the large differences between people who are born with an advantage and those who have to work for it. This is shown in the Outliers when people who are born earlier in the year have a physical and mental advantage compared to those born later in the year because of the age gap. This is similar to the Great Gatsby because people like Nick and Tom who were born into wealth have it easier and have better chances at making money compared to someone who has to work for it like Mr. Wilson who is trying his best or possibly Gatsby.

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The first chapter of "Outliers" talks about how small advantages can lead to big success over time. In "The Great Gatsby", the characters like Tom and Daisy, who are born rich and stay rich. Gatsby, on the other hand, seems to have worked hard to get his wealth. Both the books show that success isn't just about hard work, but it's also about the opportunities and advantages you start with.

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In a paragraph response, please compare Outliers to The Great Gatsby: