Nightfall is where everything is going to happen. An unforeseen disaster is going to occur in the party at Gatsby's mansion is where I'm going to start off. Everyone inside needs to expect the unexpected. At the end of the day, I will laugh happily. I started packing up all the surprises I need for this party, a blade serrated near the handle and a deadly sharp curve at the tip, a shiny polished meat clever, a Bayonet knife, a dagger-like steel weapon that is attached to the muzzle of a gun and used for stabbing or slashing in hand to hand combat, a Gut knife, a Huntsman knife, a Bowie knife, a flip knife, an edged thin blade and lastly, my favorite, the Karambit knife. The knife was sharp and keen. It had wanted to murder since it's first design. It had a large steel serrated blade with a black handle. I grabbed all my knives into my rucksack. I also don't want to forget my lucky strawberry flavored lollipop. …show more content…
I wore a red suit; you may be questioning why the red suit. Well, so people's blood wouldn't stain my suit, smart isn't it? I grabbed my rucksack full of deadly knives and chucked it behind my truck. I started the engine and began to head to Gatsby's mansion. I thought to myself what would happen if I get caught, no that's never going to happen what was I thinking foolish me. As I reached Gatsby's mansion, there was a huge gate, which was coated in black. The two guards were wearing black suits and each one of them had black glasses, they looked similar to men and
1. The most crucial point in Chapter 1 is the call Tom receives from his lover. After Nick, Jordan, Tom, and Daisy spent a well mannered night together, the phone rings and Tom rushes to it. When Daisy follows behind it’s revealed it’s a mistress from New York. This is a crucial point as it reveals the falseness in Tom and Daisy’s relationship. Although it initially looked as if all was fine, a larger theme of disingenuousness is behind their relationship.
Gatsby is a powerful looking man who insists on having his house filled with nonstop parties. The guests at these parties spend much of their time gossiping about Gatsby, some saying things such as, ?he killed a man once? and ?he was a German spy during the war? (44...
Themes of hope, success, and wealth overpower The Great Gatsby, leaving the reader with a new way to look at the roaring twenties, showing that not everything was good in this era. F. Scott Fitzgerald creates the characters in this book to live and recreate past memories and relationships. This was evident with Gatsby and Daisy’s relationship, Tom and Daisy’s struggling marriage, and Gatsby expecting so much of Daisy and wanting her to be the person she once was. The theme of this novel is to acknowledge the past, but do not recreate and live in the past because then you will not be living in the present, taking advantage of new opportunities.
“The Great Gatsby” was a extremely sophisticated novel; it expressed love, money, and social class. The novel is told by Nick Carraway, Gatsby’s neighbor. Nick had just moved to West Egg, Longs Island to pursue his dream as a bond salesman. Nick goes across the bay to visit his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom Buchanan in East Egg. Nick goes home later that day where he saw Gatsby standing on his dock with his arms out reaching toward the green light. Tom invites Nick to go with him to visit his mistress Mrs. Myrtle Wilson, a mid class woman from New York. When Nick returned from his adventure of meeting Myrtle he chooses to turn his attention to his mysterious neighbor, Gatsby. Gatsby is a very wealthy man that host weekly parties for the
“Daisy, I saw some trouble on the road. George Wilson’s wife was killed. You know the fella that owns that garage? A car killed her. They described it as a new big yellow car. It was Gatsby’s car.”
The next evening was another of Gatsby’s famous parties. Anthony knew he had to keep an eye on Gatsby to make sure there was nothing else going on he wasn’t aware of. Everything had to be perfect. As he blended in, moving through the crowd of party-goers, he was bumped into. He recognized the timid looking man as Nick Carraway, Tom’s cousin-in-law. Knowing of Gatsby’s personal invitation to him, he tailed Nick, hoping he would lead him to Gatsby. As Nick perused the party, he was joined by a woman he thought he recognized. Sure enough, Anthony was pretending to be enjoying a cocktail when he heard a familiar voice.
“The man with the shotgun opened the gate and sauntered along the line of tellers, handing each of them a Hefty bag.” (pg 571) I think this is a beautiful sentences because it foreshadows what is about to happen and gives you room to wonder. Sometimes not knowing exactly what will happen has a certain beauty in it. I thought, “ Why does he have a shotgun? Why did he decide to use a Hefty bag instead of a duffle bag or something stronger? Was he wearing some sort of disguise?” The word sauntered also made the passage have a sort or urgency.
Black has a lot to do with death in this book, and there are many signs death is coming. There is a black knotted tree sitting right in front of the house that represents his death, Gatsby’s death, and it is right in front of his eyes the whole time (Fitzgerald 89). Towards the end of the book, after Gatsby is killed at his funeral, there is a black hearse that drives by (Fitzgerald 175). The hearse in a way tops off the sadness and darkness in the book, it shows that the damage is done and the darkness and death are gone, it left Gatsby.
Elio Pearlman couldn't believe it. Instead of a nice summer with his family in the villa in Italy where they usually stayed, his father had accepted a guest professor position at Columbia University in New York, Columbia didn't allow the children of guest professors to live in the campus staff housing, so Elio was off to summer camp. He was terrified out of his mind because it was a new place in a new country with people he'd never met.
Before Pickard went away to the war he had never been allowed to drive the family motor car. Now, after the war, nothing was changed in the town except the young girls. Their hair all done, the missing boot scuffs and a clean trim; they were grown up. But they lived in such a complicated world of already defined alliances and shifting feuds that Pickard did not feel the energy or the courage to be a part of. He liked to look at them, though. There were so many good-looking young girls. When he went away only little girls wore their hair like that or girls that were fast. He liked to watch them walking and talking under the shade of the trees. He liked their silk stockings and flat shoes. He liked their bobbed hair and the way they walked. When he was in town, he did not appeal to the girls very much. Maybe it was because he was not as well groomed, or that he……..He had tried several times to make conversation, but never mustered up the courage to do so. He felt like he was too different. The one time he approached one of them with gentle words, they turned him down. “How may your day be pretty
The Great Gatsby - Chapter 1 Read the beginning of the novel chapter 1 up to page 12 “Tom Buchanan”. in his riding clothes was standing with his legs apart on the front. porch.” How effective do you find this as an introduction to Great? Gatsby.
Up until now, the term American Dream is still a popular concept on how Americans or people who come to America should live their lives and in a way it becomes a kind of life goal. However, the definitions of the term itself is somehow absurd and everyone has their own definition of it. The historian James Tuslow defines American Dream as written in his book titled “The Epic of America” in 1931 as “...dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.” The root of the term American Dream is actually can be traced from the Declaration of Independence in 1776 which stated “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that
I don’t think anybody saw us, but of course I can’t be sure.’ I disliked him so much by this time that I didn’t find it necessary to tell him he was wrong.” Gatsby’s house has become a hideout. Chances are, he will not be inviting anymore guests for parties because they might discover the vehicle that murdered Myrtle. Thus, Gatsby becomes lonelier. Daisy left him, and his party guests are no longer welcome. The irony is that Gatsby’s car was meant to impress Daisy, but in the end, she ruined it, and he now has to hide it. The car used to represent luxury, but after Myrtle’s death, people will see the car as a weapon that killed someone. Within the short time frame that Myrtle was hit, Gatsby could not have caught any witnesses. He thinks no one saw him and Daisy because he wants it that way. He wants there to have been no witnesses so that Daisy can successfully get away with murder. At this point, Nick cannot believe the words that are coming out of Gatsby’s mouth, and his dislike for Gatsby has reached a level where he does bother to tell him that Michaelis saw everything that happened. Nick wants Daisy and Gatsby to be punished for their crime. Even if Nick does not tell Gatsby, he and Daisy would not know that Nick was aware of a witness, so they would not get mad at him. Unlike them, he remains a more honest and righteous person than they are. These upperclassmen think they can bail
I left on in The Great Gatsby when Mr. Carraway was at Gatsby’s party. He finally met Gatsby. The next morning Mr. Carraway had lunch with Gatsby upon his request. Gatsby ended up telling him all about his even that he was an Oxford man. However, Mr.Carraway strongly believes that he is lying. When they were at lunch they ended up seeing Tom. In this section I learned that Daisy had known Gatsby many years ago. Miss Baker let Mr. Carraway that Gatsby want him to invite Daisy over for tea. He did and Gatsby and Daisy started right back where they had left off many years ago. This section ended when they all went over to Gatsby’s house for a tour.
The Great Gatsby is an all time classic in literature and even in film. I selected this film because of how intricate the plot is. The story takes place in the 1920's where the stock market is booming and there was prohibition happening but that didn’t stop people from drinking like mad men . One of the main characters Nick caraway moves to New York right next to Mr. Jay Gatsby without even realizing it until he gets a person invitation to one of his annual parties he throws every weekend. Daisy Buchannan is Nick’s cousin and Tom is daisy’s husband who are both extremely wealthy. The connection between these characters is years ago daisy