Nick to Gatsby. "They're a rotten crowd (..) You're worth the whole danm bunch put together!" Nick warms to gatsby, as he admires his determination to fullfill his dream, also this is the "only compliment he ever gave him" 11. Eyes of t.j eckleburg and george wilson " You may fool me but you can't fool God!"
This has been made possible thanks to good music, excellent actors and an unpredictable story. While watching the movie Casablanca, I really enjoyed the different types of music. The music was nice because it shows all kinds of languages and sounds. For example, in one of the flashback scenes in Paris, Rick and Ilsa dance to Rhythm of Perfidia by the Mexican composer Alberto Domínguez. Also another scene from the movie, which was characterized by music and that definitely impressed me, was when Laszlo begins singing followed by many people, La Marsellesa, the French national anthem, even before the occupation of the country.
This true story grips you from the beginning, telling of the daring adventure set out before this group of people. The music enlightens the thoughts and ideas of Philippe and sends the eerie sensation of getting caught on the towers amid the audience. The interviews are particularly interesting because of the many different views of what was happening. Philippe describes what it was like under the tarp and hiding from the guards while also—later on in the sequence—telling about how wonderful it feels to walk on the wire, like walking on air. His girlfriend, talks mostly in French, describing the beauty and how it’s like he was meant to
The wealthy are made shallow by their fortune and flit about with no real purpose, and are comforted knowing that they have the means to entertain themselves. At the parties Gatsby hosts at his house, the men and women of the upper class come and go “like moths” (43), and “the air is alive with chatter and laughter and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other’s names” (44). The dazzling lights emitted from Gatsby’s house attract the partygoers, whose reason for attending is superficial. They seek short-term warmth and excitement – the source of the hubbub, so to speak – just like moths who are attracted to the orange glow of a lantern. Similarly, as the party guests engage in silly conversation and disregard even each other’s names, their interactions serve no major purpose.
The Great Gatsby: “I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye. I liked to walk up Fifth Avenue and pick out romantic women from the crowd and imagine that in a few minutes I was going to enter into their lives, and no one would ever know or disapprove. Sometimes, in my mind, I followed them to their apartments on the corners of hidden streets, and they turned and smiled back tat me before they faded through a door into warm darkness. At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in other-poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner-young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.”
Explore the presentation of Gatsby’s parties and his guests In Chapter 3 we discover that Gatsby who is renowned for throwing elaborate parties everyday. It seemed that people just came and left when they chose “men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and stars.” Moths are creatures that are attracted to light and the people are compared to the moths because the people could arrive at Gatsby’s parties when the stars come out and leave before dawn as the people like the moths are attracted to the light. During the 1920s there was prohibition in America so the sale, manufacturing and transportation of alcohol were forbidden. The champagne at Gatsby’s party was illegal this suggests that Gatsby could be involved in some precarious things. Gatsby’s guests admire his Rolls – Royce, his marble swimming pool, his station-wagon and his “corps of caterers” the alliteration of this emphasizes how many caterers Gatsby has.
An example of this would be, “ I usually Lone it anyway”. Which shows his feelings on how he doesn’t care. Also when the reader imagines Ponyboy you get a lower class hoodlum image but when you read on Ponyboy doesn’t fit the Hoodlum stereotype as you find he is very intelligent as he has a high IQ and makes good grades but doesn’t like to show it as his older brother Darry expects a high grades from him. In addition Ponyboy admires his brother Sodapop as he
They began to become really good friends when they both find out that they have one thing in common, Daisy. Gatsby tells Nick that he was close to her and Nick tells him that they're cousins. I believe that Nick has changed. Nick is a pretty honest guy when we first meet him, but it doesn’t mean that he’s always very nice. He’s skilled at getting along with everyone in public, and in private, he judges them in private.
She was liberal and frank thus contrasted with Mr. Chips. She made him to think independently, to share joy and most of all is to laugh… Kathy’s love, sincerity and sensibility made a new man of Mr. Chips. Both of them were head over heels in love… So there is no age for love and being loved by someone. She was a big, positive influence on him, which made a new man of him. His discipline improved and his sense of humor bloomed into a sudden richness to which years lent maturity.
He says, that as a consequence of the way he was raised he is "inclined to reserve all judgments" about other people (page 5). His saying this makes it seem like we can trust him to give a fair unbiased account of the story that he is telling, but we later learn that he does not reserve all judgments. Nick further makes us feel that he is a non-partisan narrator by the way he tells of his past. We come to see that Nick is very partial in his way of telling the story. This is shown when he admits early in the story that he does not judge Gatsby because Gatsby had an "extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness".