PPT-THE GREAT GATSBY CHAPTER 5

JUNIORS Swbat analyze Gatsbys transition from confident to vulnerable DO NOW HANDIN Why do you think Gatsby is vulnerable Try and include a partial quote from his conversation with Nick as textual evidence. 3/31/14. Understanding the Times. Post WWI (1914-1918). Standard way of living increased for most. Americans abandoned small towns in exchange for urban living. Economy prospered as Americans tried to forget troubles of war. The Great Gatsby . by F. Scott Fitzgerald . We are going to be reading it this unit and looking at how the 4 characteristics of modernism appear throughout it.. . 1. . . Sense . of disillusionment and loss of faith in the “American Dream. The Green Light. Symbolizes both the unattainable dream of Gatsby’s past and the future at the same time. . “Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever…It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one” – Nick . Brandon McClung, Ian Edmiston, Luke Lish, Cole Haynes. Symbols. An important symbol in this chapter is Gatsby’s wealth and material possessions. They symbolize the American Dream of the 1920’s and everyone wanted to be like Gatsby. . BY: Your Name. Your Class. CHARACTERS. Nick . Carraway.  -  The novel’s narrator, Nick is a young man from . Minnesota. .. . After . moving to West . Egg. , . Nick quickly befriends his next-door neighbor, the mysterious Jay Gatsby. . Historical background, author information, themes, and motifs to look for. "I look out at it and I think it is the most beautiful history in the world. . . . It is the history of all aspiration not just the American dream but the human . Honors English 11. Ms. . Cimino. Chapter 1. Nick . Carraway. – Both the narrator and the author of the story. Mentions Gatsby briefly; states that although Gatsby represents everything he normally scorns, Nick exempts him from his usual . 2. Cite the passage on page 64 which connects Gatsby to what is typically “American”  (the archetypal American).  What particular traits are the focus here?. 3. On that same page, Gatsby’s car is described: “…rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hat-boxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of windshields that mirrored a dozen suns” (64).  Discuss the symbolism in this description. . Tidbits. F. Scott Fitzgerald 1896-1940. Named after great uncle Frances Scott Key. From the . midwest. : St. Paul, MN. Married to Zelda Sayre - m 1930. The dominant influences on F. Scott Fitzgerald were aspiration, literature, Princeton, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, and alcohol. . The American Dream. Theme. #105: Theme: The fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work. Sometimes said to be an underlying “message” of a story.. On the surface, . The Great Gatsby. Honors English 11. Ms. . Cimino. Warm-Up. What does it mean to be “. great. ”?. Crash Course Literature. Was . Gatsby Great?. Important Quotations: Chapter 7. “’Her . voice is full of money," he said suddenly.. Plot Summary: . Eggs Cracked. The Great Gatsby.  is a story told by Nick . Carraway. , who was once Gatsby's neighbor, and he tells the story sometime after 1922, when the incidents that fill the book take . Great Gatsby Chapter Summaries Chapter 1 Summary Nick Caraway. He not only narrates the story but casts himself as the book’s author. In the summer of 1922 arrives in New York Lives in West Egg, next to Gatsby. Gatsby: A Voyage into Greatness Gatsby: Day 1 Bellringer : Gatsby Vocab #1 Controversy Reflection/Synthesis Intro Preface & Anticipation Guide Begin The Great Gatsby : Ch. 1 The Great Gatsby Vocabulary