Alex, a mid-adolescent boy, was out for a walk one summer's day.
He had a single mission today that separated this boring day from the last few boring days.
He wanted an ice cream, one of soft vanilla and chocolate fudge drizzle from his favourite ice cream shop on the corner of his street. He had enough change finally and nothing could stop him from getting this ice cream.
The sun beamed down rays of hot heat. The cool breeze from the coastal winds made his mouth water for the ice cream even moreso. He needed that could treat more than ever.
Alex hopped onto the sidewalk. The shop wasn't really too far. He would have to decide to walk on either the grass lawn or the warm concrete but either one would take him to his sweet paradise.
Alex
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The room had no doors, just clear windows, a desk and a chair. The cube-shaped room appeared hovering in the center of a bigger room. The cube room was surrounded by men and women in fantasy clothes with floating pens and paper. They bickered to each other and argued over the contents on the floating books at their side.
Alex wasn't sure if they were even human. It was hard to make out details from inside the glass cube room.
"His stats are far too low for our standards." said one of the beings.
"He's completely unremarkable and undesirable," said another.
"I have feelings, you know." said Alex to the beings surrounding his cube room.
A being approached closer to the glass and looked Alex up and now.
"The boy has one arguably high stat. Luck. He was chosen for this, was he not?" said the closest being, with his hand pressed against the glass cube.
Alex placed his hand on the glass, against the Scholar's hand.
'Is this what he wanted me to do?' thought Alex, confused and disoriented by the situation.
"See. Look how stupid this one is," said one of the females, "He's trying to touch Master Dorrell's hand just now. He doesn't realize their is a barrier in
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He couldn't trust sidewalks anymore, even if it was a dream. Not after falling through it and teleporting to a magical place where Alien Scholars judged him like as if he was a mutt in a dog show.
Licking his soft vanilla ice cream, Alex watched as clouds rolled in off of the mountains in the distance, approaching his town.
"It's going to rain, isn't it." sighed Alex, "Of course on the day I get a cold treat."
The clouds rolled in over the bright sun, blanketing the town in cotton ball clouds.
As the thick clouds blew overhead Alex began to feel weightless. It was the same feeling he felt when he fell through the concrete sideway into the Alien prison.
"Oh no. Not the magic again!" he shouted, "No, no, no, no no no no..."
His feet lifted off of the grass lawn, slowing hovering upwards into the air towards a bright blinding light.
Alex watched as his ice cream remained in place, hovering below him in the exact spot he was holding it before he began magically floating.
"No! At least, at very least let me bring the ice cream! I paid for it. I paiiiiddd for iiit!" shouted Alex as the clouds sucked him into the sky at intense speeds.
"I don't want to die!!!" screeched Alex as a magic force pulled him into the
“We just want to see it, that’s all.” “You sure he’s here?” One voice seemed to come from the room on the sofa. “Yeah, he stays here every night.” “There’s another room over there; I’m going to take a look.
The American Dream is dead and people are now concerned with just holding on to what they have.
Think about being separated from the one you love. You thought this person would be in your life forever and always. You may have spent days and weeks thinking and planning your future together, but then one day they disappear from your life. That person has moved on, and chose to live a life that no longer including you. It would be assumed in most cases that the love of your life is no longer the person they were before, so should you stick around and try to win them back? In the case of Gatsby and Daisy, Gatsby did not realize Daisy would be different, and although he still thinks he is in love with Daisy, is he in love with her for who she is now, or the idea of everything she used to be the answer may shock you, and this is all due to the unreal expectations he has for her to fill. Because Gatsby is not in love with who she is at the time they are reunited. Instead, he is caught up in the idea of who she used to be. The actions of Gatsby, how he talks about her, and the relationship between Gatsby and Daisy once they are back together again show who Gatsby is really in love with, and that is the old Daisy.
The American Dream is something that so many people will strive to have one day. Doing so, a person may want the perfect house, family, and job. For Gatsby, that American Dream is fading away faster than ever. He had the house and the job, but one thing was missing, Daisy. Gatsby’s fighting for Daisy made him lose everything that he had gained for himself. In the end, Gatsby’s optimism and hope for a life with Daisy ends up killing him. F. Scott Fitzgerald delivers in his book, The Great Gatsby, a great description of the setting and his thoughts and emotions to readers in using ideas that people can relate to in this day and age. The development of the characters helps establish why The Great Gatsby is considered “good
He’s stalling. Gatsby is normally right to the point. Something must be up, Anthony thought, “Look here Gatsby, quit wasting my time and say what you mean to.”
As The Great Gatsby progresses, the reader feels a range of emotions for each of the character, especially the narrator. The story of Jay Gatsby is told in the point of view of Nick Carraway, Gatsby’s only real friend and he is also a participant in the book. Although most of the main characters in the book are rich and come from “old money” Nick works hard to rent a house “at West Egg, the-well, the less fashionable of the two [Eggs]” (5). Even so, Nick says that his “ own house [is] an eyesore, but it [is] a small eyesore” (5). Nick does not exactly complain about his house as much as the reader would expect him to. Throughout the book, Gatsby has three different personas and he uses the other characters in the book to make his ultimate dream come true. Nick is not excluded and he is taken advantage of by Gatsby just like everyone else. Ultimately, Nick is
Thesis: How does F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, compares the American Dream in today's generation and back in the 1920's-30's? What did the American Dream really mean and why? So why did this issue happen? Do you think America can change in the future? What is the american dream really about? When did the phrase: ‘american dream’ started? Have you ever wondered what the 20s and 30s were like back then? How can this so called dream ever bring hope to our country? These are all the questions I would like to know myself. I’ve found three online sources & one source from the novel that can help explain about the 20th century, the Gatsby novel, today's generation, and about Mr.Gatsby from the book.
I pretty much felt like an outcast when I began high school. Most of my classmates still had their friends from middle school, whereas mine went to the neighboring high school. Having social anxiety really didn’t help me either. It was hard for me to make eye contact with others or even bother to introduce myself to new people. In the first few weeks of high school, something had caught my eye. There were flyers advertising auditions for ‘The Little Mermaid’ production. Taking the risk, I decided to audition. Through the auditorium doors there was a grey table with upperclassmen talking to other students. Located on the table were different character scripts and a clipboard for signing in. One of the strangers approached
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald's magnum opus, The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream.
Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby is one of the most carefully structured stories of all time. The narrator, Nick, is a very clever and well spoken storyteller. Nick confides with the reader in the first pages of the novel. He says that he needs to tell the story of a man called Gatsby. It is as if Nick has to overcome disappointment and frustration with a man who has left him with painful memories. Nick says that, even though Gatsby did alright in the end, “it was the foul dust that collected in his wake” that disgusts him now. Nick, thus, begins the novel with uncomfortable memories. Time is a meaningful concept in this story. It is evident that dreams and memories are central to the overall plot and meaning. Secondly, the American Dream is a “green light” of desire that Gatsby never stops yearning for and something he will not forget over time, even as he is dying. This is so, even though no one cares about Gatsby or his dreams after he died, except maybe Nick. Finally, the fact that Fitzgerald uses flashback; that Nick is telling us about a main character after he has already died and before the story begins, is ultimate proof. The Great Gatsby is structured by Nick’s memory. Fitzgerald’s clever use of flashback throughout and within the novel is the greatest evidence that he intended his novel to be centered on memory and going back in time, which will be sort of a focus as we go further into this essay.
Nick Carraway says: “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy – 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…” (Fitzgerald 170). Nick makes this observation about his family in the novel “The Great Gatsby” by F.Scott Fitzgerald. In the spring of 1922, Nick moves to West Egg and meets a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby; there he witnesses Gatsby longing for a life with Daisy Buchanan and failing to achieve the American dream. Tom and Daisy initially show their carelessness by deciding to marry each other when neither of them were fully committed. Their thoughtless behavior carries on through their marriage as they both partake in affairs and emotionally torture their partners. When the Buchanans show their next act of carelessness it results in the death of three people. In “The Great Gatsby”, Tom and Daisy continually show how careless they are and there are many repercussions to their actions.
him saying "if personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures then there was something
F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of the most compelling twentieth century writers, (Curnutt, 2004). The year 1925 marks the year of the publication of Fitzgerald’s most credited novel, The Great Gatsby (Bruccoli, 1985). With its critiques of materialism, love and the American Dream (Berman, 1996), this dramatic idyllic novel, (Harvey, 1957), although poorly received at first, is now highly regarded as Fitzgerald’s finest work (Rohrkemper, 1985) and is his publisher, Scribner 's most popular title, (Donahue, 2013). The novel achieved it’s status as one of the most influential novels in American history around the nineteen fifties and sixties, over ten years after Fitzgerald 's passing, (Ibid, 1985)
He notices that his parents are making chocolate chip pancakes, his siblings and his favorite breakfast. They also have the best drink on the side which is chocolate milk. Their parents know this is their favorite breakfast so they make it at least twice a week. While they are eating their breakfast
Link paused for a moment as looked back up at the sky. “Yeah.” he said. “He's a pretty good one too.”