The Great Gatsby - context by Amanda Rooks https://padlet.com/arooks1/thegreatgatsby Made with fortitude en-us 2018-03-02 02:43:44 UTC 2024-05-29 18:56:13 UTC hello@padlet.com Old Money v. New Money https://padlet.com/arooks1/thegreatgatsby/wish/238394855 1. There was a divide between old money and new money which played a role in the ways the characters were portrayed
2. Old money refers to those who have a history of wealth which runs in the family
3. new money refers to those who have made there own fortune]]> 2018-03-05 23:23:22 UTC https://padlet.com/arooks1/thegreatgatsby/wish/238394855 Fixing the World Series https://padlet.com/arooks1/thegreatgatsby/wish/238394864 1. 8 members of the White Sox were accused of intentionally losing in 1919.
2.  Players were going to make a years worth of pay.
3.  Cincinnati Reds in exchange for money from a gambling syndicate led by Arnold Rothstein.

 
 


]]> 2018-03-05 23:23:27 UTC https://padlet.com/arooks1/thegreatgatsby/wish/238394864 The Roaring Twenties (The Jazz Age) 🎶💕🎉🕵🚗 https://padlet.com/arooks1/thegreatgatsby/wish/238394939 1. The 1920s were an age of dramatic social and political change. For the first time, more Americans lived in cities than on farms. The nation’s total wealth more than doubled between 1920 and 1929 
2. The most familiar symbol of the “Roaring Twenties” is probably the flapper: a young woman with bobbed hair and short skirts who drank, smoked and said what might be termed “unladylike” things, in addition to being more sexually “free” than previous generations 
3. Cars gave young people the freedom to go where they pleased and do what they wanted. What many young people wanted to do was dance. Jazz bands played at dance halls while radio stations and phonograph records carried their tunes to listeners across the nation.  


]]> 2018-03-05 23:23:57 UTC https://padlet.com/arooks1/thegreatgatsby/wish/238394939 Bootlegging https://padlet.com/arooks1/thegreatgatsby/wish/238394965 - Bootlegging is also known as rum-running
- It is the distribution of illegal liquor 
- It increased organised crime in America]]> 2018-03-05 23:24:08 UTC https://padlet.com/arooks1/thegreatgatsby/wish/238394965 The American Dream https://padlet.com/arooks1/thegreatgatsby/wish/238394977
-  The 'Founding Fathers' created a society that was very attractive for those aspiring to a better life as part of the American Dream.
- The “American Dream” proposes that America is a place of liberty, freedom, and social mobility (the ability, with hard work, to "move up" in the world and "make something" of yourself).
- Fitzgerald criticises the American Dream in The Great Gatsby, exposing it as a lie. His novel proposes that the American Dream does not promote freedom and equality, that it is tainted by existing power structures and superfluous desires that lead to desperation and unhappiness.
The Great Gatsby portrays America as lacking in social and moral values, as a result of cynicism, greed, and the empty pursuit of power and pleasure.
 
 ]]> 2018-03-05 23:24:14 UTC https://padlet.com/arooks1/thegreatgatsby/wish/238394977 T.S.Elliot's Waste Land https://padlet.com/arooks1/thegreatgatsby/wish/238395050 1. A poem widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century 
2. It is made up of four vignettes, each seemingly from the perspective of a different speaker. 
3. There are common themes in Waste Land and The Great Gatsby these include; the loss of a transcendental vision in modern civilization; materialism in the society and the feeling of isolation and boredom. 

]]> 2018-03-05 23:24:34 UTC https://padlet.com/arooks1/thegreatgatsby/wish/238395050 East Egg and West Egg https://padlet.com/arooks1/thegreatgatsby/wish/238395065 1.  East Egg represents old money, meaning that the people there are high-class, proper, and respectable–at least on the outside.
2.  West Egg represents new money, a.k.a. the nouveau riche. West Egg society flaunts its money through conspicuous consumption and extravagant drinking and partying. 
3.  East and West Egg represent, respectively, the split among upper class society.]]> 2018-03-05 23:24:41 UTC https://padlet.com/arooks1/thegreatgatsby/wish/238395065 Flapper Culture and Gender Roles 🤓 https://padlet.com/arooks1/thegreatgatsby/wish/238395073 1.  Women were to be respectful, were not to wear revealing clothing, they could not vote and were expected to stay in the house- take care of children, clean, cook, etc.
2.  Men were the ones who generally worked and provided for their wives and families and were the authority figure of the household
3.  Flappers were a generation of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior.   
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   ]]> 2018-03-05 23:24:44 UTC https://padlet.com/arooks1/thegreatgatsby/wish/238395073 F. Scott Fitzgerald's Life https://padlet.com/arooks1/thegreatgatsby/wish/238395189 Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on the 24th of September 1896 and died on the 21st of December 1940.

He struggled with alcoholism and his wife's mental illness.

He loosely bases his books on his life.     
 ]]> 2018-03-05 23:25:32 UTC https://padlet.com/arooks1/thegreatgatsby/wish/238395189 https://padlet.com/arooks1/thegreatgatsby/wish/238395396 2018-03-05 23:26:50 UTC https://padlet.com/arooks1/thegreatgatsby/wish/238395396 Prohibition in the United States https://padlet.com/arooks1/thegreatgatsby/wish/238395466  
- During Prohibition, the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal. 
 
- Organized crime blossomed; courts and prisons systems became overloaded; and endemic corruption of police and public officials occurred. 
   
- Prohibition began on January 16, 1920, when the Eighteenth Amendment went into effect. 

  
]]> 2018-03-05 23:27:20 UTC https://padlet.com/arooks1/thegreatgatsby/wish/238395466 https://padlet.com/arooks1/thegreatgatsby/wish/238395522 2018-03-05 23:27:38 UTC https://padlet.com/arooks1/thegreatgatsby/wish/238395522 The Lost Generation https://padlet.com/arooks1/thegreatgatsby/wish/238395734  
·         "The lost generation." This term refers to the lack of purpose or motivation that was felt by the generation that grew up and lived through the horrific disillusionment of war, and were in their twenties and thirties. 
·         The war that it was based around was world war 1 (1914-1918) 
·         Someone who is effected by war and then struggles to find a normal sense of wellbeing and happiness 

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·         "The lost generation." This term refers to the lack of purpose or motivation that was felt by the generation that grew up and lived through the horrific disillusionment of war, and were in their twenties and thirties. 
·         The war that it was based around was world war 1 (1914-1918) 
·         Someone who is effected by war and then struggles to find a normal sense of wellbeing and happiness 

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