https://padlet.com/mlubin/i0vpi0na16gk Brainstorm THREE reasons this prompt MAKES SENSE to argue! What will your THREE KEY claims be? en-us 2016-03-21 04:46:51 UTC 2017-01-17 19:46:03 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/mlubin/i0vpi0na16gk/wish/102071495 -Gatsby is a dreamer that tries his hardest to make his perfect life come true. This makes him relatable to some people.
- Gatsby wants to steal someone's wife, which makes him unrelatable.
-Gatsby always wants more in life, and people can admire him for that.]]> 2016-03-21 17:33:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mlubin/i0vpi0na16gk/wish/102071495 https://padlet.com/mlubin/i0vpi0na16gk/wish/102087162 1.Gatsby is a person with great courage and with a quality of being a person who can understand you and be of a loyal friend, with reassurance. 
2. Gatsby is a dreamer, he has goals and goes all the way to reach them, he fights for them and believes in them truly. 
3.Gatsby lived in the past, he is a person believed in redoing his past life and living it with fully happiness, with no evil ever to pass in it. ]]> 2016-03-21 18:39:04 UTC https://padlet.com/mlubin/i0vpi0na16gk/wish/102087162 justinc2471 https://padlet.com/mlubin/i0vpi0na16gk/wish/102098842 -Fitzgerald wants us to learn that Gatsby was seeking a dream and still is when he was alive.
-Gatsby is still thinking about the past and wants to start that past again which is stealing Tom's wife, Daisy.
-Gatsby is a good man that is loyal to his friends, but sometimes the decisions he makes are not smart.]]> 2016-03-21 19:46:49 UTC https://padlet.com/mlubin/i0vpi0na16gk/wish/102098842 https://padlet.com/mlubin/i0vpi0na16gk/wish/102121186 - Gatsby is someone who is stuck in the past and believes that he can redo the past and live the life he always wanted
- Gatsby desires to marry Daisy and goes into extreme measures in order to get Daisy's attention and in a way becomes greedy 
-Gatsby is a dreamer that remains hopeful throughout his whole life and doesn't give up easily when it comes to his goal of being with Daisy ]]> 2016-03-21 23:35:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mlubin/i0vpi0na16gk/wish/102121186 https://padlet.com/mlubin/i0vpi0na16gk/wish/102125767 - Fitzgerald wanted us to see that even though it's good to have our sights on the stars but we also need to keep ourselves grounded or we'll lose ourselves completely like Gatsby did
- Gatsby was ambitious and determined, that's something a lot of can identify with that will lead us a to a good life. Gatsby was also trapped in the past and couldn't stop wanting more, we should distance ourselves from this side of Gatsby
- Something that Nick has always admired about Gatsby, from start to finish, was how hopeful he was. What Nick didn't like was his desperation, the desperation for Daisy, for a wealthy and extravagant life style. ]]> 2016-03-22 00:43:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mlubin/i0vpi0na16gk/wish/102125767 https://padlet.com/mlubin/i0vpi0na16gk/wish/102134373 -Fitzgerald wanted us to see Gatsby how he saw people from his time of being alive. Fitzgerald shows us that Gatsby is very much persistent in trying to live his life how it was five years ago, with him and Daisy being in "love", Gatsby is indeed having a mindset of living in the past. 
-Fitzgerald identifies Gatsby as a man with a logical reason, because almost all of his actions seem very normal and non-weird in his mind.
-Nick doesn't much approve of some of Gatsby's actions because some of those seem illogical to him and to the audience.]]> 2016-03-22 02:37:28 UTC https://padlet.com/mlubin/i0vpi0na16gk/wish/102134373 miguelb4787 https://padlet.com/mlubin/i0vpi0na16gk/wish/102136582 -Fitzgerald wanted the reader to learn the importance of having life goals through the story of James Gatz
-Fitzgerald wants the reader to chase his or her dreams but he wishes for the reader to be realistic, unlike Jay Gatsby 
-Fitzgerald approves how hopeful and determined Gatsby is but doesn't approve how he is living in a fantasy]]> 2016-03-22 03:15:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mlubin/i0vpi0na16gk/wish/102136582 https://padlet.com/mlubin/i0vpi0na16gk/wish/102143037 * Living an ambitious life style does not always create a brighter future
* If one can not accept the future becasue they live in the past they will never be connected with reality
(Gatsby lived in the past dreaming that one day Daisy would be his) 
*  Having a great amount of money will not make you happy since money can not buy happiness
(Fitzgerald makes Gatsby believe that money was the only to Daisy's heart however at the end of the novel Gatsbys money didn't make him happyP]]> 2016-03-22 04:51:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mlubin/i0vpi0na16gk/wish/102143037 https://padlet.com/mlubin/i0vpi0na16gk/wish/102434300 ~ Fitzgerald wanted us to learn from the story that James Gatz was dirt poor until he found business even if it was illegal which many people did during Prohibition.

~ Fitzgerald also wanted us to learn that you can not create the past due to the connection of Gatsby and Daisy.

~ Fitzgerald created this character,Gatsby, because he wanted to show us how people acted during Prohibition and to prove us that you can be the richest man alive, but you will still not be happy. 

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