Language Features

Figuritive

Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, Personification, cliche

Structure

punctuation, sequence, plot structure, sentence lengths, syntax

Grammatical

Diction, verb, adjective, adverb, nouns, conjunction, pronouns, imperative, prepositions

Other – Sound Persuasive

Jargon, slang, onomatopiea, allerteration, assonance, analogy,

alphabet sentence

The zoo had badgers, caterpillars, donkeys, elephants, foxes, gigantic iguanas, jaguars, kangaroos, lemurs, monkeys, needlefish, octopuses, penguins, quail, rhinos, venomous snakes, uakari, wallaby and Xolmis.

r s t u v w x y

words

cantakerous – grumpy

pong – stink

sacrosanct – sacred

diffident – shy

austere – harsh

malevolent – bitter

voracious – different

eradicate – eliminate

ardour – passion

ruminate – consider

beach

sand, sun, yellow, blue, horizon, salt, waves, white, coast, travel, shells, sandcastles, board, surf, swell, rip, tide, sunset, sharks, dolphins, crabs, jellyfish, fish, swimming, island, bikini, togs, sunblock, towel, jandles, seaweed

The burning hot weather is beaming down onto your sunburnt skin from the skies above. Your feet tiptoeing on the burning grainy grounds. You look out and see the crisp fresh h2o bashing onto itself. Running out you then feel the chills of the coldness as you surround yourself with the same navy colour. As you breaststroke out further you soon realise you are in so deep your feet cannot touch the slimy ground. The smell of

zooming out

preposition – are the words that indicate the relationship between two things

Beyond the dark green forest, the large cottage sits. Above the red roof is the lumpy green clouds that are looking over the mystical trees that surround the vivid, soft green grass. Beside one of the thick brown trunks lies a girl with the worlds biggest bow on her head. Upon the looking girl, the big red doors rest at the front of the cottage.

show not tell

The room was a mess

Stuff was everywhere throughout the room, it was as if a tornado had hit it.

the food was good

my mouth was watering at the look of the food as the smell swept passed my nose.

the teacher was mad

his evil, angry eyes glared at me across the room. He knew I was whispering about millies newest hairstyle.

bedroom

My bed takes up the whole room and it has a grey duvet with lots of pillows and a gorilla and elephant on it. Above my bed is a dark grey headboard. My walls are white and my whole room is basically white. when you walk in you will see two very big windows and sliding doors to the outside which allow lots of sunlight. You will also be able to see my mini basketball hoop that is red and it allows me to practise basketball when I am bored. To the right and left of my bed is two wooden bedside tables.

bed, window, wardobe

the bed is right in front of you the head being on the write of the right wall. Window is

white, wood colour, grey

rectangle square,

sunshine

roses

soft

dads builders

As you walk into the bright sunny room you instantly feel the warmth of the sun through the windows beaming onto your skin. The clean white colours of the walls welcome you in and you can feel the soft grey carpet under feet as you walk more further into the room. The faint noise of the builders from outside are bouncing off the walls and into your ears. As you sit on the inviting grey bed the comfort consumes you and suddenly it’s all you can think of.

essay for great gatsby

A dream is a personal goal in life to find success and happiness. The American represents this and more, the American dream is to be believed that if anyone was to work hard enough they could achieve any of their dreams and goals. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby in the decade that this American dream was at its. The settings throughout the book reflect what the American Dream really is and how it affects the different groups of people. The Valley of Ashes, West Egg and East egg are the three settings that are most affected or they show the truth about the American Dream.

In the text, the Valley of Ashes represents the poor and the people in poverty, it represents the people who are probably working the hardest, the ones who need the American dream for the hope that one day they will be rich and live the so-called American dream. The text explains The valley of ashes as -a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; 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.”. It basically explains that where they live is a depressing place that they will never get out of. It represents the people that live in a poverty cycle that they are stuck in that and however hard they work they will never achieve their hopes and dreams because they were born into a life they didn’t get to chose. The people who do not live in the valley ashes shun it and look down to everyone who lives there which ruins all possible opportunities. An example of this comes from a quote from nick explaining what the passenger see “The valley of ashes is bounded on one side by a small foul river, and when the drawbridge is up to let barges through, the passengers on waiting trains can stare at the dismal scene for as long as half an hour.” The American dream is supposed to create ambition for the people of The Valley of Ashes but just shows us the corruption behind this idea. Show us that no matter how hard these guys work they will never get to level others are able to because of where or who they are into.

West egg, is the next setting it represents all the new money people in the book like Gatsby and Nick. These people were not born into money and earned it all themselves so it would seem that they have achieved the American dream. But all these people have not achieved this money in a fairway. Because everyone who lives here has achieved the American dream corruptly as “Everyone in West Egg is a bootlegger” (A bootlegger is someone who sells or makes something illegally). Tom says this in chapter 6, it shows how much people at East egg look down on the west eggers just because they have all this money and enjoy to flaunt it, unlike the east eggers. “I lived at West Egg, the — well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them,”. East Egg and West eggs only difference being that one of them was born with money and the other wasn’t. So the fact that the East egg people look down to people who haven’t had the headstart in life they have had they are not as accomplished.

East Egg is full of people like Tom and Daisy Buchanan, people who have supposedly already succeeded at this American Dream when they were born. East Egg houses all the people who were born into their money and funds. The people of East Egg are supposedly more superior just because they inherited the money.“Across the courtesy bay, the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water”. This quote was said by Gatsby it tells the readers how all the characters knew it was the better place to live as it was so much nicer then west egg in every aspect. “Oh, I’ll stay in the East, don’t you worry,” he said, glancing at Daisy and then back at me as if he were alert for something more. “I’d be a God damned fool to live anywhere else,” Tom says this to Nick. This quote is basically just saying that Tom really believes the East egg is really better than everyone else and only because their ancestors had money. It was Gatsby dream to get be like them, with their old money as it seemed like they had achieved the American Dream and was living the best life. But if you really think about it they weren’t really the ones who had achieved the dream it was their ancestors and they were just in this illusion everyone saw and just really lucky to have been born into a rich bloodline.

F. Scott Fitzgerald explores that the idea of the American dream is a fantasy. He used settings such as The valley of ashes, west egg and east egg to help show the readers how the different social groups were affected by the American dream and how it makes them look. This helps the audience to understand that the American Dream is unattainable and forced.

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The Great Gatsby Analysis (settings) – Tess' Online Journal

East Egg

Tom and Daisy Buchanan live here.

“Across the courtesy bay, the white palaces of fashionable East Egg  glittered along the water”

“Oh, I’ll stay in the East, don’t you worry,” he said, glancing at Daisy and then back at me as if he were alert for something more. “I’d be a God damned fool to live anywhere else.”

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West Egg

Gatsby and Nick live here.

“Everyone in West Egg is a bootlegger”.

“I lived at West Egg, the — well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them,”

A representation of achieving the American dream corruptly

Valley of Ashes

George and Mrytle Wilson live here.

“This is a valley of ashes–a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; 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.”

“The valley of ashes is bounded on one side by a small foul river, and when the drawbridge is up to let barges through, the passengers on waiting trains can stare at the dismal scene for as long as half an hour.”

A representation of how the American dream fails those who it was created to inspire hope for.

NYC

“The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.”

Anything can happen now that we’ve slid over this bridge,’ I thought; ‘anything at all….’ 

American Dream

Jay Gatsby

Gatsby’s dream throughout the book was Daisy. He believed just like the American dream that if he was to get money and be rich Daisy would fall right into his lap. Gatsby had worked hard his whole life to get Daisy back and that was all that was important to him now. Gatsby never really achieved his American dream but at some point in the movie it was heading this way to be achieved and he started to seem a lot happier but we would not know how he would feel when he actually got Daisy. “Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay.” This quote just shows us the lengths he went for Daisy. “…he says he’s read a Chicago paper for years on the chance of catching a glimpse of Daisy’s name” Worked hard finding her and didn’t stop just kept on going.

George Wilson

George in the book was not one of the main characters but effected the book in one of the biggest ways. George’s “American dream” was not specific but I believe he just wanted the life that all the rich had. He wanted his wife to love him and to have freedom like Tom. I do not think George ever got his American dream even though he worked so hard in the garage and did everything his wife asked of him. George ended up being very unlucky as in the movie his wife died which he did not take very well as he shot who he thought was the killer and himself so he never achieved his so-called “American dream”. “I’ve been here too long. I want to get away. My wife and I want to go West.” this is when George tries to take control of his wife and not let her slip away and keep seeing Tom.

Nick Carraway

Nick Carraways “American dream” was very unclear as throughout the book we did not really get insights into what was Nick wanted just what everyone else did. At the start of the book, he stated that he always was reclined to judgment and really focused on being more of a supportive crutch to those around him. Then Nick moved out to west egg to start in the bonds business because he said that this was how everyone was making money. But throughout the book, he soon realised that money was just an unfulfilled dream and did not create success.
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness”.

daisy

The ‘golden girl’ term is used in the great gatsby many times to define Daisy. The term golden girl is quite like the leading lady the girl that has the “perfect life”. Daisy in this movie represents the American dream and wealth.

Explain how Daisy could be considered clever. Use at least one quote from the text to support your answer.

Daisy is clever in the way that she has realised the limits on what female can do and has used this to create a foolish and shallow act. This helps her to live the so-called American dream. In the book, she goes on saying “I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”. This is Daisy explaining to Nick how practically the only way to make it as a female is to be a fool and not stand up for yourself.

The notes above talk about how Gatsby views Daisy as a possession to be collected. Explain this further. Find a quote from the text to support your answer and explain how the quote supports your ideas.

Daisy in this book always looked at as something to have or get. Whenever people are talking about Daisy they talk about her as if she is a possession to earn and have under their control. Daisy looks and vice is the main thing she would ever be mentioned by not her personality just outside of her. “There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind… His wife and mistress, until an hour ago secure and inviolate, were slipping precipitately from his control” The word control is used in this quote to show that Mrytle and Daisy are something to own tell what to do not love and allow them to make their own decisions.

Describe what life was like in the 1920’s for women. After you have done so, explain why you think Daisy wants her daughter to be a ‘fool’ in this world.

Life as a woman in the 1920s was lots of men and fathers telling them what they can be doing and what they should be doing. Daisy explains this as she says she wants her little girl to be a fool in this world. I believe Daisy means that she thinks it will be easier if her girl is careless and silly and not know the limits that she actually has. Almost to live in this bubble where someone can look after her and control her.

Towards the end of the novel, Nick says that Daisy and Tom were “careless people…they smashed up things and creatures, and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…”. Explain what Daisy ‘smashes up’ (figuratively speaking) in this story.

Daisy literally ruins Myrtle’s life and from this, she also ends up ruining Wilsons. As she emotionally and physically breaks the man from this action which leads him to commit suicide. One of the biggest is Gatsby as well she well is also the death of him as what she did gatsby gets blamed and killed for. But even before that, she was always giving false hope saying that they would be able to be together. Even after heartbreaking all of these peoples lives she still runs away and doesn’t even care about them like she doesn’t go to Gatsby funeral or doesn’t stop on the side of the road when she kills mrytle. she falls into her wee safety net she has with all of this money.

Explain how Daisy could be considered ‘amoral’. Use at least two quotes from the text to support your answer.

Amoral is when you unconcerned about the rightness or wrongness of something. Daisy is immoral because she ruins so many peoples lives and then doesn’t even care or understand that they have consequences. Either let her money or other people to deal with it. “the “death car” the newspaper called it, didn’t even stop” .”‘was daisy driving?’ ‘yes,’ ‘but of course I’ll say I was”.