The Great Gatsby by Øyvind Andreas Thomassen Bjørkedal

Group members

sieode — 2024-03-08 11:10:37 UTC

The group consists 4 people.

Sienna, Øyvind, Mathias og Mia.

We are 16 and 17 years old.

Why The Great Gatsby fits into the Roaring 20s

2024-03-08 11:11:48 UTC

The Great Gatsby symbolies the difference of the people in the USA in the 20s. Some were very rich and a lot of the population were poor. In the 20s the big companies grew bigger and the smaller ones had to be shut down. The big parties for the rich people were very common.

2 links with credible information about the roaring 20s

2024-03-08 11:12:52 UTC

Roaring Twenties: Flappers, Prohibition & Jazz Age | HISTORY

Typical clothes in the 20s

2024-03-08 11:15:02 UTC

Typical clothes in the 20s

2024-03-08 11:15:22 UTC

Jay Gatsby

sieode — 2024-03-08 11:16:24 UTC

Jay Gatsby is a Millionaire who lives in a mansion on Long Island. He often trows big partys hoping that Daisy Buchanan will show up. He is a mysterious man that no one really know.

he has never been rich, but he inherited a man he saved because he saw an opportunity when he ran away from home as a 16-year-old.

Daisy buchanan

sieode — 2024-03-08 11:24:14 UTC

Daisy Buchanan is a wealthy socialite woman from Louisville, who resides in the fashionable town in East Egg on Long Island. She is Nick Carraway second cousin, and she is married to the polo player tom Buchanan.

She had a romantic relationship with Jay Gatsby before her husband Tom.

What the american dream is for me(Mathias)

2024-03-08 11:24:31 UTC

The american dream for me is where the people respect eachother regardless of their skin colour and religion. It is also to get rich, live a happy life and have the best time of our life everyday.

The plot

oyvbjo12_ — 2024-03-08 11:29:42 UTC

The first character we meet in the movie is Nick Carraway, the narrator of the story. He moves next door to the very rich and eccentric Jay Gatsby, who hosts these grand parties every week. Gatsby is in love with Nick's cousin Daisy, a married woman. Daisy is in love with Gatsby too, and they want to be together. Gatsby wants Daisy to tell her husband that she never loved him, so that Jay can eventually marry her himself. Daisy says that she has loved her husband, and after a heated argument Daisy runs over her husband’s mistress (unknowingly) with Gatsby’s car, and Jay takes the blame. He is shot because of this, and Daisy doesn’t even show up for the funeral.

The green light

2024-03-08 11:33:59 UTC

The green light may be a symbol of Gatsby's desire for winning back Daisy, as well as his hope for the American Dream. The green light symbolizes his hopes, dreams and desires. It can also be sort of an afflication test for Gastby. The ones who felt the same about the green light, were the ones who he sympathized with, like Nick. Meanwhile the ones who only saw it as an object, were the ones who dismissed him.

The lost generation

2024-03-08 11:34:18 UTC

The lost generation is a word used by describing the young men who lost their youth due to time in the war. The loss of faith in traditional values and ideals led many to become hedonistic, rebellious and aimless- "lost".

Nick Carraway

sieode — 2024-03-08 11:34:43 UTC

Nick Carraway, Daisys second cousin and Jay's neighbor was a Yale universe Alumnus from the American Midwest, he lived on Long Island and had a close relationship with the married couple Tom buchanan and daisy Buchanan, he soon became close with his neighbor Jay Gatsby, they became really good friends when Nick helped Jay get in contact with he's old love daisy. Nick was the main character in this movie

The American dream for me (Mia)

2024-03-08 11:44:13 UTC

To me, the American dream is about freedom and equality, and the rights for everyone to feel accepted no matter what backround they have. People should be given a chance to succeed in life, and have enough money to live a happy life. This should be an opportunity for everybody not depending on backround.

Gatsby and the American dream

oyvbjo12_ — 2024-03-08 11:49:22 UTC

In essence, the American dream is the promise of rising from rags to riches with nothing than hard, honest work. On a surface level, this is exactly what the “new money”-man Jay Gatsby symbolises. But you can’t realistically escape poverty in America with nothing but your own two hands and a will to work. Everybody who gets rich do so either because of what somebody else does or gives them, fraud and corruption, or sheer, blind luck. The American economy is plagued with corruption and scams. It is this blind luck and lawless corruption that I find that Jay Gatsby symbolizes on a deeper level. It was pure luck that Gatsby ended up on the ship of that wealthy man, and later, it was at the illegal alcohol business and fraud that got him rich.

sources

sieode — 2024-03-08 11:50:45 UTC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Gatsby

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Carraway

sienna

Music video in the 20s

2024-03-08 11:51:41 UTC

american dream for me

sieode — 2024-03-08 11:57:41 UTC

The American dream takes on many forms and can mean differen6 things to different people. for some, it's about owning their own home, for others, starting a successful buisness.

sienna

Sources

2024-03-08 11:59:51 UTC

The Great Gatsby Quotes: The Green Light | SparkNotes

Mia

The American dream to me (Øyvind)

oyvbjo12_ — 2024-03-08 12:06:29 UTC

Historically, the American dream has been a promise of a fresh new start, free from the bureaucracy of the monarchies back in Europe. Every man could head to the new country with nothing but their own two hands and a will to work, and they would be granted their own little plot of land. It’s obvious that something like this would never work once the country was established and populated. Over time the American dream has changed to be a promise that every American can become rich, with just a tiny bit of hard work. But in a world where people can’t afford education, healthcare or even a place to live, it’s obvious that this is an empty promise. At the root of the American constitution, and the definition of capitalism itself is the saying that “every man is born equal”. But every man is not born equal, and it is this false statement that places the blame of poverty on the poor, and keeps the country in a perpetual cycle of the rich getting richer and the poor poorer. The American dream doesn’t exist, and if it’s ever even has, it’s certainly dead.