When a director chooses to create a film based on a novel, their own personal vision of the book is brought to life. A film maker has, at there disposal a variety of tools that a novelist cannot use.Some of the things a novelist cant use are camera angles, sound effects, musical score, make up, casting decisions, film location.I read the novel and watched the film and i think the film ran preety close to the book.The dialogues for the most part were exactly the same and the scenes in the movies seemed to fit those of the book very well. ... Many of them are scenes left out of the movie that...

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• Grade Level: High School

There are a lot of different lessons that can also be learned from this book. ... Suddenly, with a strained sound Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily. ... (p.5) This is one of the opening paragraphs of this book. ... Gatsby is very disillusioned throughout the book. ... It seems that in this book the more money you have, the less moral values you have. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

There are a lot of different lessons that can also be learned from this book. ... Suddenly, with a strained sound Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily. ... (p.5) This is one of the opening paragraphs of this book. ... Gatsby is very disillusioned throughout the book. ... It seems that in this book the more money you have, the less moral values you have. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Fitgerald used amazing symbolism throughout the book "The Great Gatsby", and it forces the reader to consider each word for more than face value. ... Her voice is a recurring theme in the book, and it was described somewhat abstractly, as if the sound of it could not be put into words, until the following passage on page 127: ""She's got an indiscreet voice, " I remarked. ... Scott Fitzgerald wrote "The Great Gastby" with such depth that it would be almost impossible to understand all the symbolism within the book, or even all the symbolism relating to one theme, but the styl...

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• Grade Level: High School

I see this as the climactic moment of the book, because here Gatsby, like an onion, has been peeled back until the final layer. ... Tom convinces Wilson that Gatsby killed his wife, and thus the book ends with Gatsby being shot by Wilson. ... Gatsby's death tolls were sounded when he met Daisy for the first time after the five years they had been apart. ... The non-traditional viewpoints of the "Jazz Age " are clearly shown in this book, with a transfer from marital loyalty to non-marital affairs being accepted. ... Because of these exemplary characters, I believe this book should indeed ...

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• Grade Level: High School

I see this as the climactic moment of the book, because here Gatsby, like an onion, has been peeled back until the final layer. ... Tom convinces Wilson that Gatsby killed his wife, and thus the book ends with Gatsby being shot by Wilson. ... Gatsby's death tolls were sounded when he met Daisy for the first time after the five years they had been apart. ... The non-traditional viewpoints of the "Jazz Age " are clearly shown in this book, with a transfer from marital loyalty to non-marital affairs being accepted. ... Because of these exemplary characters, I believe this book should indeed ...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

There are numerous characters in The Great Gatsby, many of whom are represented by different colors throughout the book. ... Red, blue, yellow, white, and green all appear numerous times throughout the book. ... This use of "blew " carries the transient quality of impermanence in addition to the sound of the color blue. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

By starting the book in this manner it shows Nick is a wise, good listener, and he takes in and remembers what people tell him. ... I couldn't sleep all night; a fog-horn was groaning incessantly on the Sound, and I tossed half sick between grotesque reality and savage frightening dreams. ... Throughout the book Nick is continually shown to be a good judge of character. ... Nick makes this comment about Tom after Tom refers to the book he is reading, "The Rise of the Coloured Empires". The book emphasizes that if the white race does not look out they wi...

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• Grade Level: High School

She shows very little emotion until Gatsby gives her a tour of his huge mansion embellished with expensive possessions: "Suddenly, with a strained sound, Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily" (99). ... This book describes how difficult and complex relationships are. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Poems were also a fun thing for me because it was sort of a challenge for me to make things rhyme and flow right so it would sound good. ... Such as when I feel like I"m mad at a friend of mine, I will sit down and think about what that one character did in that one book. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Poems were also a fun thing for me because it was sort of a challenge for me to make things rhyme and flow right so it would sound good. ... Such as when I feel like I"m mad at a friend of mine, I will sit down and think about what that one character did in that one book. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

For Tom, the purchase of a new car was not even exciting, and from his tone of voice, sounded to be almost a common occurrence. ... He contrasts sharply against the backdrop of affluent characters in the book like Tom, Gatsby, and Daisy. ... From the opening pages of the book, to the tragic finale, F. ...

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• Grade Level: High School