Tonight, please write a draft in response to the prompt below.
PROMPT: Consider each of the following quotation prompts from F. Scott Fitzgerald and choose ONE to respond to in a fully developed essay, using references to the book, including direct quotes.
Quotation A: "That was always my experience—a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton.... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Judging from this quotation, why do you think F.Scott Fitzgerald chose Nick as his narrator? How is the story easier for him to tell through Nick's eyes than any other character's eyes in the novel? Who else could have been his narrator and why?
Quotation B: "It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
This was what F. S. Fitzgerald wrote about the Jazz Age, the time period in which The Great Gatsby is set. How do you see each of these descriptions reflected in his writing about the setting and the people of this time in the novel?
Also, check out the vocabulary list for your quiz next week on Monday, 12/3. These words are from the rhetorical terms list given out earlier in the month, they were used in Gatsby activities, and/or were used in Chapter 7 in Everyday Use.
abstract
caricature
concrete lang.
connotation
denotation
diction
explication
exposition
extended metaphor*
figurative lang.
imagery
mode
mood
motif*
narration
personification
point of view
regionalism
setting
style
symbolism
syntax
voice
new historicism
summary narration
scenic narration
stock setting
flashback
apostrophe
soliloquy
omniscient narration
limited narration
dramatic narration
narrative intrusion
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