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         <title>Chapter 1: Tom Buchanan Characterization </title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>So Nick, the narrator, went to college with Tom Buchanan and Tom is also the husband of Nick’s cousin, Daisy. And at a very young age Tom was already considered kind of like a star since he started off as a football player, and now he is wealthy enough to support himself and his family. Tom is confident enough to speak his mind and it seems as if he expects those around him to also agree with him. In a conversation between him, his wife, Nick, and Miss Baker, Tom states “It's up to us, who are the dominant race, to watch out or these other races will have control of things.” Physically, Tom is well-built, he is older but with his previous career of football he has maintained a good physique. Colors that I’ve noticed throughout this section are lots of reds, whites, and yellows. I personally don’t really like Tom, he doesn't seem like a family man and he doesn't seem loyal enough or interested enough to be one anyways. I also think he’s a bit too out-spoken, like I don’t think he would ever follow a “keep your thoughts&nbsp;to yourself” kind of mindset because he would want his opinion to be spoken and is willing to defend his opinion even if others disagree with him.&nbsp;</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-01 19:09:25 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Chapter 1: Student Choice </title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>So far I believe this chapter has provided a good starting point for the narrative. This chapter gave a small but good biography about the narrator's life before present time. And I believe this chapter has properly introduced a few main characters in the story and has visually described the setting and place of where the story is right now. This chapter also provided short biographies about the characters introduced, such as Tom Buchanan, Daisy Buchanan, and Jordan Baker. Also, the narrator uses descriptive literary techniques to visually represent certain places. An example of this is when the narrator describes his home, “My own house was an eyesore, but it was a small eyesore, and it had been overlooked, so I had a view of the water, a partial view of my neighbor's lawn, and the consoling proximity of millionaires--all for eighty dollars a month.” Another example is when the narrator describes the Buchanan family home, “The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sun-dials and brick walks and burning gardens--finally when it reached the house drifting up the side in bright vines as though from the momentum of its run.”</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-07 20:54:43 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Chapter 2: Setting</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>The four main settings of the novel so far are; East Egg, West Egg, Valley of Ashes, and New York City. East Egg is the place where very wealthy people live, it has huge houses and mansions that could only be affordable to the wealthy upper class. It’s also the place where Tom and Daisy Buchanan live. West Egg is the place where “old money” people live, they are people who have money only because their family has passed down that money for their younger generations. West Egg is also the place where Nick, the narrator, and Gatsby, Nick’s neighbor, currently live. The Valley of Ashes is a place where the poor, or lower-class people live. It's very dull and gloomy, dark clouds and smoke cover the sun, so the place doesn’t experience much color. George and Myrtle Wilson also currently live in the Valley of Ashes. New York City is a place very crowded with tall buildings everywhere, and it is also the place where Tom Buchanan and his mistress Myrtle Wilson have a shared apartment. A comparison that all of these 4 settings have is that they all contribute to having huge/large building units/living spaces either close together or fairly distanced.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-19 20:46:19 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Chapter 2: Student Choice</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Something that caught my attention in this chapter was how detailed the narrator, Nick, explained the settings/places that were introduced throughout the chapter. The two new places being set in this chapter were the Valley of Ashes and New York City. I have personally never been to either of these places, but I can create a clear visualization with my imagination and with the help of Nick’s strongly detailed description of the settings. Nick has described the Valley of Ashes as a place, “where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.” Then Nick describes going the way of Tom and Myrtle’s place in New York City,&nbsp; “We went on, cutting back again over the Park toward the West Hundreds. At 158th Street the cab stopped at one slice in a long white cake of apartment-houses.” Based on his descriptions I can definitely tell how they differ from each other. The Valley of Ashes is a sort of lower-class neighborhood that does not experience much color with all the pollution in the air. While New York City has many buildings layered together as to almost seem like a part of a cake.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-21 01:29:43 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Chapter 3: Theme</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>So in this chapter I feel like Jordan is the kind of person to never take responsibility. When she was talking to Nick about her driving, she implied that it shouldn’t matter if she was careless on the road, because other people should be more aware and keep out of her way. So she’s basically saying that if her and another car were to get into an accident, it would not have been her fault, even though she was careless, because the other car did not move itself out of her path. This makes me think that Jordan’s social class is one that can easily avoid any aftermath consequences or play the victim card to avoid any trouble. When it comes to setting, I believe social classes are represented by the overall environment of a setting/place. For example, when a neighborhood is full of huge mansions and exquisite buildings, then most likely higher social class families present there. But other places like stacked poorly-kept buildings and landscape, is most likely where lower class families present. I see characters like Tom Buchanan and Myrtle Wilson being able to “pass” in more than one social class because Tom fits in both East Egg and New York City, while Myrtle also fits in both the Valley of Ashes and New York City.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-26 20:42:46 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Chapter 3: Student Choice</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Something that caught my interest in this chapter was the possible romance blooming between Jordan and Nick. I have always personally liked novels that include a bit of romance, so this particular altercation caught my attention. Now Jordan was actually introduced to Nick in an earlier chapter when Nick was visiting the Buchanan, however he didn’t take any interest in her then. But in this chapter they met again at one of Gatsby’s famous parties, and because Jordan was the only person that Nick somewhat knew, he basically spent the whole night with her. They talked and wandered and mingled throughout the night together. Apparently Jordan came with another man as her extort but she ditched him to be with Nick, it was fine though because that man actually found someone else to spend time with. Nick and Jordan got to know each other a lot better at this event, and even after this event, Nick narrates that he and Jordan send letters to each other from time to time. But I don’t really think that Nick is going to start something serious, since he said “...for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires,”.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-26 21:08:03 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Chapter 4: Characterization</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>So a new character has been introduced in this chapter, Meyer Wolfsheim, who is an old friend of Gatsby. When asked who Mr. Wolfsheim actually is, Gatsby states that he is “a gambler” and that he “fixed the World's Series back in 1919.” When Nick was talking to Mr. Wolfsheim, he shared some light about Gatsby and his past with him. For example, Mr. Wolfsheim knew that Gatsby went to Oxford College in England, he stated that they met after the war, and he said that Gatsby is very careful about women and would never so much look at a friend's wife. With this information, the previous suspicions that Nick had about Gatsby can be proven false. For one, it’s true that Gatsby went to Oxford College. And it’s also true that Gatsby served in the war. As for the last piece of information, it serves a purpose as a fact in proving that Gatsby has an admiration for Daisy, but has never made any direct move onto her because she is already a married woman. This gives more insight about Gatsby and his personality, and it also gives more meaningfulness into his character.&nbsp;</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-05-03 02:11:18 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Chapter 4: Student Choice</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Near the end of this chapter, the point of view kind of changes because the novel describes a scene that was witnessed by Jordan when she was with Daisy. And a main part of that scene was when it was the day before Daisy was getting married to Tom Buchanan. Jordan said that on that day she found Daisy “lying on her bed as lovely as the June night in her flowered dress--and as drunk as a monkey.” And in her drunken state, Daisy was basically demanding for Jordan to send a message to cancel the wedding all together. Jordan figures that Daisy got herself in that state because of an anonymous letter that was given to her. Daisy actually ends up soaking the letter and crumbling it up in a ball, permanently destroying it. This incident made me wonder, what exactly was in that letter? Who sent her that letter? Why did Daisy get so worked up because of that letter? Did Jordan ever get to ask Daisy why that letter seemed so important to her? To me, I think the letter was from Gatsby himself, however I really can’t figure out what words would Gatsby say to her, that could only be put in words on paper instead of in real life face to face.&nbsp;</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-05-03 02:38:04 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Chapter 5: Symbol</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>The mentioning of a green light has been first noticed in Chapter 1, and now we see it again in Chapter 5. In this chapter Gatsby mentions the green light when talking to Daisy as they look outside his window as it starts to rain, “‘If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay. You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock.” Gatsby mentions this green light basically saying that he always knows that Daisy is right across from him, in his line of sight but out of arm's reach. I believe this green light represents Gatsby’s dream of longing to be with Daisy, and after having waited so long, he finally has the confidence and courage to try and woo her. The color green represents Gatsby in a way of wealth, money. He is an extremely wealthy man who has a huge house with a beautiful garden and luxury house decors along with expensive clothing. However, green also represents him in terms of envy or jealousy, though not greatly but somewhat. Throughout the years Gatsby would have obviously been a bit envious of not being Daisy's significant other, or just not being able to be with her when they had a chance to.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-05-09 21:59:42 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Chapter 5: Student Choice</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>So throughout this chapter I’m really starting to like Gatsby’s character. As I find out more things about him, my respect for him gets higher. I really like his commitment to Daisy, and as I said before I’m a sucker for romance so I’m really getting invested in this blooming relationship between Gatsby and Daisy. I honestly do think that Gatsby is a much better match for Daisy than Tom is. I mean cause after all this time, Gatsby has worked so hard to basically be everything that Daisy would want and need. I can tell Gatsby genuinely cares for Daisy, and that fondness is so much better and healthier than Tom basically breaking Daisy's heart when he constantly cheats on her. I know that being in Daisy’s position must be so hard on her, she basically broke down crying when Gatsby was showing her his luxury clothing saying that, “They’re such beautiful shirts. It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such—such beautiful shirts before.” To me, I kind of felt for Daisy because she’s obviously somewhat regretting her life choices and it’s kind of sad to witness her showing her feelings like this. But I’m hopeful that Daisy can see how much Gatsby likes her, and that maybe she’ll give him a chance.&nbsp;</div>]]></description>
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         <title>Chapter 6: Characterization</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>I honestly wasn’t expecting a full on backstory about the real Jay Gatsby, but he was a kind of mysterious man, so sooner or later the truth would have come out. His real backstory was completely different from what he originally told Nick. Gatsby told Nick that he inherited all his money from his wealthy family, he studied at Oxford University, he’s from San Francisco, he traveled the world like a prince, and his business involved investing in oil and drug stores. The actual truth is that Gatsby’s real name is James Gatz, his family were working class farmers, he actually had to earn all his money, he’s from a farm in North Dakota, he studied at a community college while working as a janitor, he sailed around the world as an assistance, and his business involved investing in mysterious unknown illegal matters. His actions/choices as a young man actually really contribute to the kind of person that he is. It shows that he can be really committed, he’s good at pretending to be someone that he’s not until he actually becomes that someone, he works hard to achieve what he wants, and overall he’s just someone who came from nothing and made something of himself.&nbsp;</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-05-14 03:30:03 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Chapter 6: Student Choice</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Something that I noticed in this chapter was Gatsby’s great ambition of creating and starting a whole new life with Daisy. Because in this chapter, Daisy went to one of Gatsby’s parties and they talked and danced and were just basically together the whole night. But Gatsby noticed that Daisy wasn’t really comfortable at the party, she didn’t really know anyone beside Gatsby or her cousin Nick. After seeing how Daisy didn’t much enjoy the party, Gatsby was upset and frustrated. To me it seemed like Gatsby was trying to impress her, to show her that this is who he is now, but it just wasn’t catching Daisy’s eye as much as he wanted it to. In the novel, as Nick talks about Gatsby, he says “He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was...” This honestly made me feel a bit sympathetic towards Gatsby, it’s just sad to see how even after all of his hard work, it still isn’t enough.&nbsp;</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-05-17 00:30:49 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Chapter 7: Theme</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>I personally do believe that Gatsby loves Daisy. I feel like his reaction toward her when they finally got to see each other, like when he was being all flustered and shy, showed that he really wanted to see her even though he was nervous to show her the kind of man he turned out to be. In Daisy’s case, I also think that she loves Gatsby. I mean in this chapter she did say to Gatsby as she gave him a kiss, “You know I love you.” As for her feelings toward Tom, I think that when they first started dating and then got married and then during the first few years of their marriage, she did love Tom. But when he started cheating on her, she felt less and less valuable to him. As for Tom’s feelings about Daisy, he did say that he loved her but he justified it by basically saying that even though he goes and fools around with other women, he still comes back home to Daisy. Throughout this novel the only romance involving Nick was when he was taking an interest in Jordan. However there wasn’t any actual progress of that relationship evolving, so I don’t think he loves anyone. I think that Fitzgerald is saying that love can be very complicated in many different ways.&nbsp;</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-05-20 23:31:21 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Chapter 7: Student Choice</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Now that the novel is almost to the end, I have to say that this chapter was honestly the best out of all the previous chapters. I just think that in this chapter, a lot of things climaxed. And I believe that in this chapter, it was the most story-moving and the most emotional chapter. Having to witness Daisy go through an emotional roller coaster in dealing with her husband and with Gatsby was hard to read. Especially when she started to cry, I felt really bad for her. To me it seemed that Daisy was trying to keep both Tom and Gatsby happy, but in the end she had to make a decision between the two, but she couldn’t make up her mind at all. Also, witnessing the conflict between Tom and Gatsby almost felt like a fight was about to break out, I mean I wouldn’t be surprised if someone threw a punch. But it actually finally showed the real character of those two, with Tom and Gatsby both expressing their feelings about Daisy. Something that I wasn’t expecting at all was the sudden death of Myrtle Wilson. It was just so sudden and then seeing how Tom felt and how Daisy felt after the incident was heartbreaking because to Tom, he lost someone that he seemed to really care about, and to Daisy, it was a traumatizing event to experience.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-05-21 00:15:41 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Chapter 8: Theme</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>The images on the front of the novel actually have a lot of key aspects about the story. Obviously the most eye-catching image is the big eyes and red lips floating on the middle of the cover. Honestly at first I thought that this was representing Jay Gatsby, but then I realized that it actually makes more sense that it would represent Daisy Buchanan. Even a quote that Nick said, “Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan, I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs,” can be interpreted as a small description of the cover. I also noticed that the colors on the cover represent the colors mentioned throughout the story. On the cover I can see colors of yellow, green, red, white, blue, and grey. And in the story, green represents the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. Red and white represent the colors of Tom and Daisy Buchanan’s house in East Egg. Yellow/gold represent wealth and money such as Gatsby’s car and tie. Blue represents emotions like the hope that Gatsby has for getting back together with Daisy, but also the sadness of Tom and Daisy’s relationship. And finally, grey represents a main setting in the novel, The Valley of Ashes.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-05-28 00:47:35 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Chapter 8: Student Choice</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Honestly I personally feel that this chapter was the most sad/depressing chapter of the novel so far. This chapter started off with basically just Gatsby and Nick hanging out and just spending time together while Gatsby grieved about his unfulfilled dream and Nick staying with him as to kind of be there for him, to comfort him. To me, it was sad to read as Gatsby talked about how he loved Daisy so much and how he badly wished that he could be with her. I’ve never been in a position like him before, but I felt like I could feel his emotions, like I understood what he was going through, without having actually experienced what he was going through. And then the chapter switches to George Wilson and his grieving of losing his wife Myrtle Wilson. A friend of George was trying to talk with him and basically trying to comfort him, but to no avail because George was so sick and depressed about finding out that his wife was cheating on him and then suddenly passed away. But ultimately the most sad part about this chapter was near the end when George, overcome by his anger and grief, shot Gatsby and then shot himself. I was not expecting this type of ending at all because to me I didn’t think that George was the type of person to do such a thing, and also I didn’t think that Gatsby who was a main character would be killed off like this.&nbsp;</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-05-29 20:49:28 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Chapter 9: Theme</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>This novel actually says a lot about the American Dream. One main idea is that, even though more than one person may have the same dream, only a few can actually achieve it. This idea perfectly describes the situation of a few of the main characters in The Great Gatsby. The characters I’m talking about are Jay Gatsby, Myrtle Wilson, George Wilson, and Dan Cody. Jay Gatsby’s American dream was to become wealthy and gain Daisy Buchanan's heart. Myrtle Wilson’s American dream was also to become wealthy. And I assumed that her husband George Wilson also had the same idea. And finally, Dan Cody’s American dream was also mainly to become wealthy. These four characters presumably all had the exact same dream; to be rich. Yet, only two of these characters actually achieved their dream, Jay Gatsby and Dan Cody. While the other two characters, Myrtle and George Wilson, remained lower-class. Throughout this novel, it shows exactly how Gatsby and Cody were able to achieve their American Dream; by working hard for it. While also showing how Myrtle and George Wilson did not achieve their dream; by not trying hard enough. I believe it gives a message how no matter what one’s American Dream is, it will not come true just because you want it to. It can only be achieved through means of dedication and hard work.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-06-04 22:17:50 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Now that the novel is over, I will personally say that I liked it. The ending is a bit sad and heartbreaking, and I personally feel that it could have gone a different way. However, the ending was very well written and I liked the symbolism it gave relating to the American Dream. I also really liked the symbolism about colors, I feel that the color representations added something special and creative to the storyline. I have never read a story like this one, and so it goes to show how unique the story is. I liked how it expressed emotions such as love. I think that love had a big part in this novel. Especially circling the complicated love of Gatsby and Daisy, and rounded the almost love of Nick and Jordan. Truthfully at first, I didn’t understand why the point of view in this story was Nick Caraway's. I thought that the story itself titled “The Great Gatsby” would be in the point of view of Gatsby himself. But then I realized that Nick actually had a very important part in the story, and that’s what I like in his character. One of my favorite quotes that Nick says is, “No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-06-05 20:47:40 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Text-to-Self</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>A main idea in The Great Gatsby was the importance of money, the need of money. I can relate to this idea because I also believe that money is important. Money can get you places a lot easier and can give you a sort of privilege advantage. I have personally never experienced these sorts of things, however in today's society I have witnessed it happen many times. I have seen how those with money are able to afford better luxuries, households, accessories, and more. It is no secret that people who are wealthy live a more comfortable lifestyle than those who are less fortunate. However, this exact situation is the reason why there is such a big gap between rich and poor. In the novel, it shows just how different life is between those with “old money” or “new money” and those without money. It also shows characteristics of people who so desperately want money, hence the need for money. Myself and many others strive to be successful, to have money, basically. Money is something that I know I will thrive to get in order for myself to be happy and to be successful, for myself and for my family.&nbsp;</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-06-12 20:42:12 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Text-to-Text</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>A main idea in this novel was about love, specifically about Jay Gatsby’s and Daisy Buchanan’s love. There was also another forming love between Nick Caraway and Jordan Baker, however they did not receive much attention and there was no actual progress of that relationship. Now going back to Gatsby and Daisy, their sort of love reminded me of another romance themed literature; the historical Shakespeare tragedy, Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet and The Great Gatsby are actually very different considering settings, characters, etc. But something that they both have in common is the theme of love. In Romeo and Juliet, they were “star crossed lovers” who could not be together due to their family rivalry, however they stayed committed to each other and tried their best to be together despite their family interference. In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby and Daisy were former lovers with years between them that pulled them apart, but Gatsby was so committed to being with Daisy that he tried his ultimate best to be a man worthy of her. Both of these stories portray love as something undeniably special, something to chase after, and something to want/need more than anything in the world.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-06-12 21:38:48 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Text-to-World</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>The ideas in this text relate to the world in terms of how the United States was like during the 1920’s and the idea of the American Dream. The four main settings of The Great Gatsby, East Egg, West Egg, the Valley of Ashes and New York City, all take place in the United States. It showed how in East Egg, wealthy old money people lived there. West Egg, how wealthy new money people lived there. The Valley of Ashes, how poor lower class people lived there. And how in New York City, secret scandalous people live there. These settings and characteristics are very similar, almost the same, to how life in America was like during the 1920’s. In terms of the American Dream, the author of The Great Gatsby gave a really eye opening message; that not everyone will achieve their version of the American dream. The American Dream is a national ethos of the United States, the set of ideals in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success. A few main characters in the novel, Gatsby, the Wilsons, and Dan Cody, all had ambitions of pursuing their dream, however only two of these characters were somewhat actually able to achieve them, leaving the other two dream’s unfulfilled.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-06-12 23:18:07 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>The Great Gatsby: Movie Review</title>
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         <pubDate>2021-06-16 18:02:08 UTC</pubDate>
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