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Welcome to our Symbol Hunter Padlet! Please follow the instructions below to complete the activity. If you have any questions, please ask your teacher for help.

• Find a symbol from either The Valley of Ashes OR East/West Egg in Chapter 2

• Add a post in the appropriate section (Valley of Ashes or East/West Egg)

• Include an image of the symbol (you can draw it, find a representative image online, or take a picture from your book)

• Explain what your chosen symbol represents and how it contributes to the setting's significance in the novel

• Comment on at least two other posts to discuss different interpretations of the symbols

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Please do not copy images or work from other students or THE TEACHER (me). 

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The valley of ashes is a run down part of The Great Gatsby where everything is described as being gray and covered in ash. On page 25 it says, " ...there is a horrible stretch of road that goes through an area covered in dust and ash from the nearby factories." Ash is the remains of something burnt, so the symbolism behind that is that these are people and a place have lost their beauty, their life, their dreams. This is a poor place where wealth does not reach. Even the people are covered in gray ash: explaining their lives are desolate, sad, hopeless, and everything negative that is associated with ashes. However, we can also see the positive in this, because there is a saying from the Bible, "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust" which talks about our mortality but also HOPE.

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The valley of ashes in The Great Gatsby is a symbol of decay and desolation. It represents social decay resulting from the pursuit of wealth. The valley of ashes is depicted as a wasteland filled with ashes and industrial waste also symbolizing the consequences of the american dream corruption.

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East Egg is filled with grand elegant mansions freshly mowed lawns. The people there are dressed very elegantly throwing parties and have a social status of old money. West Egg has big flashy houses of newly rich people. The people are ambitious but dont have the same social status as those in East Egg showing the gap between old and new money.

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East Egg is where all of the rich people live,in the book they are described as fashionable and some of those people come from old money.West Egg is where the poor live,its not as nice as East Egg and a lot less fashionable,its where new money people live.In chapter 1 when Nick goes to Tom's house in East Egg he says:"Their house was even more elaborate than I expected,a cheerful red and white Georgian Colonial mansion..."Also in chapter 1 Nick talks a little bit about what his house looks like "a weather beaten cardboard bungalow at eighty a month..." He also says: " I lived in West Egg,the-well,the less fashionable of the two..." West Egg and East Egg symbolize different ways of living.

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In the Valley of Ashes a symbol is the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg, symbolizes that someone is always watching and what you deserve will always come to you, good or bad. "I followed him over a low whitewashed railroad fence, and we walked back a hundred yards along the road under Doctor Eckleburg’s persistent stare."

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Myrtle Wilson a curvy women who's personality changes on what she wears.

The Great Gatsby in chapter two Myrtle changes her dress 3 times first she has a blue dress she wore to the Valley of Ashes then the second time she changes into a brown dress when she went to New York city. Page 32 of the book chapter 2 says '' With the influence of the dress her personality had also undergone a change. Her laughter, her gestures, her assertions became more violently''

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The valley of ashes in The Great Gatsby represents the bad and emptiness left behind when people focus only on money and success. It's a poor, dirty area that shows the gap between the rich and the poor. The people who live there like George and Myrtle Wilson struggle while the wealthy characters live in luxury. On chapter 2, page 25 Fitzgerald describes it as a "fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills". This place shows how the pursuit of wealth can lead to a sad, empty, leaving some people overlooked and forgotten.

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East money is symbolic of class and society in Great Gatsby most who lived in east egg had well known family names in society.They were born into wealth.West egg was symbolic of wealth and power.Those who lived in west egg didn't always had money and had to work hard at becoming a successful force in society.

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Myrtle is mention in chapter 2 she is mention that she wears a blue dress during the Valley of Ashes this could represent that Myrtle is never quite happy with her appearance .Whenever she happen to crash into bath with Tom they both make it seem like they have never met.This represent that both of Tom and Myrtle have something to hide.

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This symbol represents abandoned, left behind, dark, and grey. "the only car visible was the dust-covered wreck of a Ford" mentioned Nick, this helped me with my statement. It represents how the husband is getting cheated on, he doesn't know his wife has a whole other life behind his back, but he also doesn't really seem to care just how he doesn't care about his garage being filthy and lonely.

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A place where Georgian colonial mansions were just a regular thing with lawns staring at the beach this part of the egg is considered the nicer more luxurious and lavish part this place had the ¨new money¨ .

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West Egg represents the newly rich. It's where the new money people live. It's basically the poor side. Nick and Gatsby live in West Egg. Chapter 1 Nick says "I live at West Egg, the-well, the less fashionable of the two" referring that East Egg is a nicer and richer neighborhood than West Egg. Chapter 2 "About half way West Egg and New York the motor road hastily joins the railroad and rune beside it for a quarter of a mile..." from the Valley of Ashes.

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the symbol for east egg means people that have old money which means the money is past down from generation to generation and in the book it says they dress up fashionable. West egg is of people that of new money which means they got there money on there own and they worked hard for it.

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during chapter 2 myrtle changes her dress 3 times, mentioning her change of clothes tru out the chapter,from going from a blue dress in the valley of ashes thenn going into a brown dress in new york, showing a change of mood in her character, i believe this symbolizes the act of her trying to fit in and apart of toms eye but this slowly falls apart, which shows tru the change of dresses being more dark

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This apartment represents the secret, immoral lives of the wealthy—lives they try to keep hidden behind their outwardly respectable facades in East and West Egg. The reckless behavior displayed here, with Tom’s affair and his physical aggression toward Myrtle, shows the darker, unrestrained side of the characters. This setting contributes to the novel’s theme of moral decay and how the pursuit of pleasure and wealth has led characters like Tom to cross boundaries without remorse.

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The Valley of Ashes shows the moral and social decay that comes from the unchecked chase for wealth. It stands for the struggles of the poor and the results of living in a society focused on greed and materialism. It symbolizes the dark side of the American dream, the moral and social decay that happens when people are obsessed with wealth and materialism.

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Situated at the end of Daisy’s East Egg dock and barely visible from Gatsby’s West Egg lawn, the green light represents Gatsby’s hopes and dreams for the future. Gatsby associates it with Daisy, and in Chapter 1 he reaches toward it in the darkness as a guiding light to lead him to his goal. Because Gatsby’s quest for Daisy is broadly associated with the American dream, the green light also symbolizes that more generalized ideal.

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In west egg Jay Gatsby tries to impress daisy with hes luxury car and he does this to show he's wealth , and he does this to try to impress everyone with he's status symbol.

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The valley of ashes is a place that is told to be abandoned  and really empty where there is no hope and nothing to be there. As we read chapter 2 it can be shown and proven that all of these thing are true. It says … “It had occurred to me that this shadow of a garage must be a blind and that  sumptuous and romantic apartments were concealed overhead when the proprietor himself appeared in the door of an office, wiping his hand on a piece of waste. He was a blonde, spiritless man, anatomic and faintly handsome. When he saw us a damp gleam of hope sprang into his light blue eyes.” (pg 27).

So the point of this image and the evidence is to symbolize that there isn't anything. It's a place where is hopeless. There isn't anything but sadness basically, there's nothing around that looks good but simply just looks abandoned.But something that stood out to me is that the more they got close to the building, little light of hope was coming up but the biggest example was the man who was waiting there  with a big smile and happiness and hope. We should all take that as an example and have that faith that no matter what you go through good or bad always be happy and have faith that everything will be alright no matter how bad stuff may seem.

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En el "Gran Gatsby", El Valle de la cenizas es UN simbolo muy poderoso que representa la desolacion y la decayente moralidad de la sociedad, este paisaje gris y arido, situado entre la exuberancia de West Egg y la sofisticacion de New York, es donde se encuentra la vida de los que han sido olvidados por "El sueno Americano". Las cenizas, resultado de la industrialization, son un recordatorio de las consecuencias de la avaricia y la busqueda de incesante riqueza.

Tambien nos da un relato sobre la explotacion masiva de las personas, El deterioro MORAL de los seres humanos que pasan por alli sin siquiera reflexionar sus acciones. las tensiones entre las clases altas, resaltando como El capitalismo puede deshumanizar a quienes estan en la base de la piramide social.

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The valley of ashes symbolizes The breakdown of mortality caused by wealth and  inequality, Decay , corruption , and the moral degradation of society. Like described in the book   the valley of ashes is  “ where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens,” “men who move dimly and are already crumbling through the powdery air .”  It’s a dark town with regular people living a  regular life , serves as a stark reminder of the disparity between the rich and the poor.

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West egg is a place where we see people with new money. In other words, it is a place of people who earn their money with their own effort. On the other side we have the East Egg that belongs to the people with Old Money, people who have inherited money from a family member. People who just spend and spend money because they don't know what it's like to earn it.

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El Valle de Las Cenizas es una granja donde las senisas cresen. Todo lo que hay es de Cenizas

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"In the Valley of Ashes a symbol is the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg, symbolizes that someone is always watching and what you deserve will always come to you, good or bad. "I followed him over a low whitewashed railroad fence, and we walked back a hundred yards along the road under Doctor Eckleburg’s persistent stare."

It can emphasize the moral decay and corruption beneath the surface of wealth and excess in the 1920s. The eyes watching can suggest that there is always someone or something always observing the characters. It can highlight the consequences of the character's carelessness and lack of intergrity, even if society looks the other way, someone or something may still be judging them.

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"Situated at the end of Daisy’s East Egg dock and barely visible from Gatsby’s West Egg lawn, the green light represents Gatsby’s hopes and dreams for the future. Gatsby associates it with Daisy, and in Chapter 1 he reaches toward it in the darkness as a guiding light to lead him to his goal. Because Gatsby’s quest for Daisy is broadly associated with the American dream, the green light also symbolizes that more generalized ideal."

The green light can symbolize how Gatsby's dreams, no matter how intensely he pursues them, remain out of his grasp. It can also be seen as a constant reminder of what he wants yet cannot truly have.

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Not following directions and getting a zero be like:

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Not following directions and getting a zero be like:

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No name, no grade.