American Author Research Project by Ryan Long https://padlet.com/rlong4651/Bookmarks F. Scott Fitzgerald en-us 2022-02-28 18:18:43 UTC 2022-03-04 18:26:04 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f610.png Thesis Statement rlong4651 https://padlet.com/rlong4651/Bookmarks/wish/2070061640 F. Scott Fitzgerald with no doubt portrays The American Dream. He loved writing and always dreamed of becoming rich and famous. Fitzgerald was a very poor student and speller, however he excelled in writing and wrote many famous novels that are still read today. Some examples are The Great Gatsby, This Side Of Paradise, Tender Is The Night, and much more. In all these Novels Fitzgerald uses symbols or different literary devices to define The American Dream from different perspectives.

]]> 2022-02-28 18:28:19 UTC https://padlet.com/rlong4651/Bookmarks/wish/2070061640 F. Scott Fitzgerald rlong4651 https://padlet.com/rlong4651/Bookmarks/wish/2070075123 F. Scott Fitzgerald’s had a rough childhood. He was one of the lowest in his class and was very poor at spelling. He then worked hard and pursed writing and he became famous, having many successful novels. These Novels are known to show the Jazz age and different perspectives of The American Dream. He also lived a not so good life of alcoholism and financial troubles. However he then worked through the low times in life to become a very successful and smarter man.

]]> 2022-02-28 18:35:22 UTC https://padlet.com/rlong4651/Bookmarks/wish/2070075123 F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby rlong4651 https://padlet.com/rlong4651/Bookmarks/wish/2072041009 The Great Gatsby was a book full of emotions created by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This source is another Biography so it talks about Fitzgerald’s life. That he quit his job and got into writing and he was passionate about it. This started his career and become a wealthy and very well known writer.It ties back to The American Dream and how Fitzgerald’s writing portrays it. He starting off in life not knowing what he was doing and doing poorly in school, to becoming a wonderful writer.

]]> 2022-03-01 18:17:37 UTC https://padlet.com/rlong4651/Bookmarks/wish/2072041009 The Curious Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald rlong4651 https://padlet.com/rlong4651/Bookmarks/wish/2076421862 Fitzgerald loved to write, his first published novel was when he was 13. However he did not do well in school so he was moved in and out of different schools. He then started writing for smaller companies and grew bigger and bigger and published his own novels that everyone enjoyed.
It portrays The American Dream and how he interprets it. He showed that even someone with so little money and knowledge can go very far in life if you put the work into it. He wrote tons and tons of novels and some of them were extraordinary.

]]> 2022-03-03 18:27:17 UTC https://padlet.com/rlong4651/Bookmarks/wish/2076421862 Concluding Statement rlong4651 https://padlet.com/rlong4651/Bookmarks/wish/2076460353 "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past," Fitzgerald writes at the end of his novel (Fitzgerald 193). The novel's most important message is that the American dream is a greater purpose that represents money and romance.]]> 2022-03-03 18:48:03 UTC https://padlet.com/rlong4651/Bookmarks/wish/2076460353 Works Cited rlong4651 https://padlet.com/rlong4651/Bookmarks/wish/2076480610 2022-03-03 18:59:01 UTC https://padlet.com/rlong4651/Bookmarks/wish/2076480610 Video rlong4651 https://padlet.com/rlong4651/Bookmarks/wish/2077232860 2022-03-04 03:49:05 UTC https://padlet.com/rlong4651/Bookmarks/wish/2077232860