Great Gatsby Dialectical Journal

Sacrifices, such as a small favor, make someone’s day, a genuine, true sacrifice comes with much more meaning. While Atticus’s decision may be just another court case, seeming like a small sacrifice, it is actually a significant sacrifice and important favor in the book. During Chapter 9, Atticus is called a “n-lover” by his own nephew, Francis, who claims that Atticus’s choice to defend Tom Robinson ruins their family reputation. On page 110, Francis says, “‘Grandma says it’s bad enough he lets you all run wild, but now he’s turn out a n-lover we’ll never be able to walk the streets of Maycomb agin. He’s ruinin’ the family, that’s what he’s doin’.’”

One of the biggest thing that Jackson had done as a president was in 1832. Jackson vetoed a bill that would renew the second bank charter early. Jackson stated “I will kill it!”. He said this because he didn’t like the bank at all and he believed that it made the rich richer and the poor poorer. He said in his veto message “It is easy to conceive that great evils to our country and its institutions might flow from such a concentration of power in the hands of a few men irresponsible to the people.”

he even starts fantasizing about being a family man after talking with his more matured former gang member (Burgess, 202). A very interesting attribute of the last few chapters is that Alex’s use of nadsat drops in frequency when compared to him at the beginning of the book. This addressed indirectly in “Nadsat: The Argot and its implications in Anthony Burgess’s, A Clockwork Orange”. It says “That is not to say that the author is totally unconcerned with moral values. No doubt he deplores the actions of Alex as much as we do.

But what gets me is this selfless persona that Tony takes on during the second season. It see so undermining of his character as a sociopathic predator. As in this single relationship that he has with Junior is the reason why can’t be an effected

You never truly understand what a person is going through until you not only walk around in their shoes but also climb into their skin. Many people cut one out just by their perspective but also we don 't take into consideration the possible right things because some don 't like to think another 's words are right. A simple ‘ how are you’ can have someone think you 're polite. Atticus no matter what always stood up for Boo, he knew him but his kids on the other hand did not so he told them they don 't know him or understand him they 've heard of everything about him but it was all wrong. The power of words is most important in this world, it is a do or don 't type of action.

Last point is that Americans took the freedoms we have for granted, which is what he did when he was young man. To begin, the narrator tells us that "had it not been for a chance discovery', he would have always taken his freedom and liberty for granted. He grew up in a middle-class neighborhood just outside Hartford, Connecticut.

Scott Fitzgerald, Nick Carraway is the satirical voice of the proletariat, a true American. Because Nick embodies the middle class man and mocks the materialistic ideals of the company he keeps, he speaks for the voiceless in the 1920’s. People who did not buy things they couldn’t afford, worked a blue-collar job and lacked upper class ranking, also lacked the option of an opinion or say in societal matters. Nick Carraway laughed at the extravagant ways of the rich bourgeoisie, insisting upon the audience’s conformity to the ideal that the lifestyle was preposterous. Simply put, Nick mocked the rich and within the laughter there remained the muted ideals of the middle class.

Everyone, except for Cash, begins to think he is mad when in reality he tried to “hide her away from the sight of man” (215). Cash saw this in Darl thinking that “Sometimes I think it aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way” (233) Cash is the only person in the Bundren family who saw Darl going to the mad-house as a good thing without having to hide their “inner truth.” Cash said Darl going away from the family “is better so for him. This world is not his world; this life his life”

Gatsby and Daisy’s failure of a love story and the carelessness and the misplaced priorities of the wealthy all serve as examples of ways money and romanticism can negatively affect one’s life. The only character who seems to have any perspective is Nick, who had his father’s words of wisdom to guide him as he entered the new world of East and West Egg. “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,’” (1). He serves as a basis to judge the rest of these characters, as his less distorted view of the world contrasts so heavily from that of Gatsby and the Buchanans.

free will. This come about when you find out that Okonkwo’s dad was no good and left the world owing a lot of people money, and real]ding on fate would mean that Okonkwo would also be a no good scoundrel. This is quit wrong though because he worked hard and became rich and respected so clearly fate had no hold on him, he used the power of free will and created his own destiny. However, when times got hard Okonkwo always blamed his fate.

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, it has many moments that can be argued that Nick can be displeased with the people he surrounds himself with. Nick even states that Gatsby stands for everything he hates and despises about the rich he corresponds with but yet by the end Gatsby is the only one that Nick appreciates on some level. With an almost fleeting passage in The Great Gatsby though it clearly show that Gatsby had a glamor that secreted from him that Nick idolized but was slowly being squandered as he had ‘talked with him perhaps six times in the past month and found, to my disappointment, that he had little to say. ’(pg 64) Nick then goes on to say that Gatsby started to lose the glamour that built up after the parties, especially the rumors he was told about how Gatsby came into his money.

The Colossal Difference Within Long Island For centuries, money has been an ever-prominent force in the decisions and actions of humans. In the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald illuminates the powerful effect of money in creating and changing people in the American society of the 1920’s. Long Island, split into two sections, the East egg, representing old aristocracy, and the West Egg of the newly rich, Fitzgerald depicts the constant struggle between social hierarchies to reach the ideal American dream. He represents the changing social frame between “old” and “new” money, their symbolic differences, and the morals of the citizens inhabiting each egg.

The chosen words in the quote above reflects Nick’s sarcastic reaction towards Gatsby’s request. The author uses simple language in the first sentence to establish Nick’s initial response towards the favor that Gatsby’s favor. To elaborate on Nick’s response, the author uses words with connotations in the second sentence. The first half of the second sentence identifies Nick’s perception of Gatsby – a wealthy man who is capable of throwing a party for dozens, if not hundreds, of people every week. The phrase, “dispensed starlight to casual moths”, implies that Nick sees Gatsby as an affluent person who can afford to give grandiose parties to people who just come by (Fitzgerald 83).

Want to be seen as successful, important, worthy, on the same level as Gatsby. Quote:”The Carraways are something of a clan, and we have a tradition that we're descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch, but the actual founder of my line was my grandfather's brother, who came here in fifty-one, sent a substitute to the Civil War, and started the wholesale hardware business that my father carries on to-day.” (Fitzgerald, 3) Nick thinks that he is important, and worthy of the praise that people like Gatsby and Tom get.

Everyone passes judgement it's a natural human behavior. At the beginning of the great gatsby, Nick's father gives him some advice, “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you have had.” Nick has learned to live by this advice ever since. This advice is both a blessing and a curse. Since he doesn't pass judgement on people it makes him easy to talk to, but this changes due to certain instances where he realizes the character’s lack of morals and recklessness.