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Foothill High, Pleasanton ARTS MISC 8.01 Graded Assignment - The Great Gatsby, Session 1 - Ben Hansen.

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The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a book about love, romance, and affairs, that all take place within a single summer in the 1920’s, on the New York coast. However this book goe... s much deeper than what is written on the pages. This book shares with us the decline of the American dream in the early years following World War I. The American dream is the idea that no matter who one is or where one comes from, all have an equal opportunity to achieve success. This success will be achieved through hard work, determination, and non-stop drive to never be complacent with where one is in life. However, in the early 1920’s, this ideal was taken to an extreme where many people would do whatever is necessary to gain wealth and live their own American dream. Jay Gatsby was born into a very poor family, and spent all of his younger years farming the land with his family. H e always had a dream in his mind of one day being rich. This was the American dream dwelling with in him, even since he was a young boy. As he turned the age of seventeen, he ran away from home to go pursue this desire of his to become wealthy. He began by mopping floors and doing work of such manner, but he did not enjoy that at all. He didn’t grasp his father’s wise advice. “In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” (p. 1 [Show More]

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