My Silly Padlet by Christopher Martin

Movie Comparison

25camartin — 2024-03-11 11:37:05 UTC

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25camartin — 2024-03-11 11:56:07 UTC

Our first main difference in the two movies of Gatsby's death is in the 2013 version we have Nick calling Gatsby's estate and Gatsby's butler answering the phone when the shooting occurred but in the 1974 clip, we see that Gatsby doesn't have anyone around and never received any call when his death had happened. When George shoots Gatsby in our 1974 movie, Gatsby is on the mattress like in the book, "Gatsby shouldered the mattress and started for the pool." (Fitzgerald 99) And Gatsby is shot 5 times. In the 2013 version though, Gatsby is shot 1 time but isn't on a mattress at all but is standing partly out of the water. One big key difference we see in these is the confidence of George when he kills Gatsby, we see in the 1974 version, that George is very nervous and is shaking the whole time he goes to shoot Gatsby telling us he is nervous. What we get in the 2013 version though is a confident-looking George who didn't hesitate or shake at all when it came time to shooting Gatsby.

Wanted Poster

25camartin — 2024-03-11 12:01:46 UTC

The next genre I have chosen is a wanted poster for Daisy. The reason Daisy has a wanted poster is for the death of Myrtle which she does via Gatsby's car. We know that Daisy and Gatsby had taken Gatsby's yellow car at the time of the accident when Tom says, "You two start on home, Daisy," said Tom. "In Mr. Gatsby's car." (Fitzgerald 84) After Myrtle's death, Nick talks with Gatsby outside Daisy's house and that's when we find out who was driving. "Well, I tried to swing the wheel---" He broke off, and suddenly I guessed at the truth. "Was Daisy driving?" "Yes," he said after a moment." (Fitzgerald 89) We can see from this that Gatsby admits to Daisy driving the car when it happened. This is why I have Daisy wanted for Vehicular Manslaughter and not Gatsby, who George believed killed his wife.

Party Invitation

25camartin — 2024-03-12 12:00:57 UTC

The next genre that I have picked is an invitation from the man himself, Mr. J. Gatsby to one of his amazing parties. Before people arrive though, he has to get the supplies ready and it isn't just a little bit of stuff as we read, "Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York--every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves... At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby's enormous garden." (Fitzgerald 28) With these details from our man Nick, we can see that Gatsby's parties aren't just small little get-togethers but ENORMOUS things. Gatsby's parties would last all through the night. "I was alone and it was almost two...The large room was full of people...."Well we're almost the last tonight," Said one of the men sheepishly. "The orchestra left half an hour ago." (Fitzgerald 35) With these bits that I took from page 35, we can see that at 2 in the morning, there are still many people at the house, and the orchestra is gone but people are still there.

Text Message

25camartin — 2024-03-13 11:43:28 UTC

I have done a risky thing and got a hold of Tom's phone and got a screenshot of Tom's text between him and George. We can see that between these two, Tom is going to sell George a car at some point but is always threatening to not sell him the car. We can read Tom doing this to George and it states, "When are you going to sell me that car?" "Next week; I've got my men working on it now." "Works pretty slow don't he?" "No he doesn't," said Tom Coldly. "And if you feel that way about it, maybe I'd better sell it somewhere else after all." (Fitzgerald 20) This little conversation between these two shows us how Tom is threatening to take away selling the car to George all of little innocent things like asking why the mechanic is working so slowly. With Tom acting like this in the book makes it feel like this string of messages could be a real conversation between the two and could probably end up the same way as this.

Book Review

25camartin — 2024-03-14 11:25:07 UTC

Here is my book review of, 'The Great Gatsby' By F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby is a book about a man named Nick who goes to Long Island for the summer and meets his cousin Daisy and other people as well. Later on, Nick meets Gatsby and gets to know Gatsby, we also get to see the many different love groups in the book. This book had you on the edge of your seat sometimes and other times had you feeling for a character which made me really like this book. The part that had me on my seat the most was in chapter 7 when we had Gatsby, Nick, Daisy, Jordan, and Tom all at Tom's penthouse in downtown NY. Things get heated between Gatsby and Tom when Tom starts asking Gatsby about his past, then asking Gatsby, "What kind of a row are you trying to cause in my house anyhow?" (Fitzgerald 81) Gatsby being Gatsby says later on in the page, "Your wife doesn't love you," said Gatsby. 'She's never loved you. She loves me." (Fitzgerald 81) This causes a whole line of events and it had me on my seat the most because of how violent Tom can be which we had seen throughout the book, where he hits his "GF" Myrtle, all because she kept saying Daisy, "Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!" Shouted Mrs. Wilson. "I'll say it whenever I want to! Daisy! Dai--" Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand." (Fitzgerald 27) This bit here made me feel like a fight was going to break in chapter 7, having me ready for it but it never happened. There are many other times in this book that have you on the edge of your seat, or feeling for a character like Myrtle, who got her nose broken for saying a name. This all is why I think this is a great book for anybody to read and I'd give it a 8/10 for those who like ratings.

Dear Reader

25camartin — 2024-03-15 13:45:30 UTC

This Multi Genre is a collection of many genres that take parts of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and expand on them. I wanted to show some of the big things that happened throughout this book. Now, these genres are not directly related to one another, which is why you could read each one separately as its own thing. These are arranged by big events down to some smaller events that are still important to the story.