How does Fitzgerald tell the story in Chapter six? Arguably one of the most important aspects of narrative during chapter six is ‘narrative viewpoint’, in addition to ‘time and sequence’. The novel ‘The Great Gatsby’ is written as though it is actually Nick who has crafted the novel, illuminating the reader with the dramatic happenings that occurred during the summer of 1922. As a partially involved character within the book, Nick forms his own personal opinions on the characters he interacts with and forms a strong friendship with his neighbour, Gatsby. It is due to Nick’s desire to convey a positive image of Jay Gatsby, the image which he himself withheld, that inclines him to vary from his use of chronological order during chapter six, suddenly adopting the use of anachrony by unexpectedly deviating from the main plot.
Moreover, this creates the idea that war never truly ends as it is questionable that Elizabeth’s son may grow up to fight in a war. Therefore, showing that soldiers such as Stephen and wars such as World War One are no different from soldiers and wars today. This leaves an uncertainty next to whether or not society learns from its previous mistakes involving war. In addition, within the chapter of England 1979 the reader discovers, along with Elizabeth that Stephen ‘didn’t speak for two years after the war.’ This finding highlights the damning effects that war can have. Also, many of the other soldiers within the novel suffered from shell shock.
One sign was when a person gives away things that are important to them, it is a sign that the person is thinking about killing themselves. This is seen in the past where Henery offers his brother full ownership of the car. Henery says” It’s no use.” In fact, just a little while later Henery drives into the river and is swept away by the current and drowns. “The Red Convertible” represents the relationship between Lyman and Henery. It represents their youth and carefree days.
From the Massachusetts Book Awards – A Program of the Massachusetts Center for the Book A Reading and Discussion Guide Massachusetts Award Winner The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz Riverhead Books Prepared by Deborah O. Doulette Neilson Library, Smith College 2008 PRELIMINARIES Oye! Listen up! And hold on to the edges of your book because Junot Diaz has written this buenmoso historia that is muy, muy importante. And if you don’t speak Spanish/Spanglish, it doesn’t matter; this historia moves so fast, you might not want to take the time for translation. You’ll just be a little bit disoriented, a little bit of an immigrant in a new novel world.
To this can be added two key forebodings. One happens in the rest house scene: after the physical fight, Jake jumps on Evelyn’s car that is being shot from the back as it rolls away; this happens again in the final scene of the movie, but with fatal consequences. The other is also related to the final scene in the movie: after Jake has followed Evelyn to her other house where she keeps Katherine hidden, he surprises her in her car and during the dialogue, Evelyn leans on the steering wheel activating the car horn. This is the sound that denounces her death in the end of the movie; a motionless Evelyn is leaning on the steering wheel again and a prolonged car horn sound is heard. These forebodings are like hidden
I make this conclusion from where it says in the story all of the things that Jake wanted to add to his car to make it look better and possibly even change his entire life (page 45). Reading on we see after the wreck when he lies to Mariana about his profession, insurance, and address (page 46-47). He is lying not only to Mariana but himself when he gets back into the car and it says that “He took a moment or two to feel both proud and sad about his performance.” (Page 47). I say this because he possibly wanted a relationship with Mariana but could never have one because of the lies he had just told her. Also with Mariana when she tells Jake to call her (page 47).
Complete it all, however, by October 10/11. 2) Your story should be in keeping with everything that has come before in the novel. In other words, you can’t bring Allie literally back to life, although you can have Holden thinking about, speaking to, perhaps even hallucinating that he sees his dead brother. But you need to remain consistent with what came before. 3) Do reference characters from earlier in the novel.
At first you are a little wary, but as you drive you find yourself revealing things that you normally would not have. John Williamson drawled softly from the stereo, engaging in a duel with the muffled roar of the truck’s engine. “So mate, tell me, what the sam hell are you doin’ going to Wilcannia?” My newfound travelling companion had introduced himself as Johno and he obviously hadn’t taken me as a local. There was an emphasis on the ‘you’ in his questioning. I stared ahead into the blackness beyond the limited realm penetrated by the truck’s headlights and wondered the same thing.
One car had followed me while I walked all the way from the building to my car and the other two just appeared. I though the car which had followed me should have got the spot, but instead she was cut off by one of the two other cars. She then proceeded to roll down her window and yell an obscenity that her mother definitely would not approve of. In today’s society, swearing has become more prevalent than it was before, and out generation has become immune to the shock value of hearing swear words. In Rick Reilly’s 2006 article “Swearing Off Swearing” for Sports Illustrated, he uses ethos, pathos, and logos to attempt to convince the reader to literally swear off swearing.
The narrator says they wear torn leather jackets, do drugs, drink beer, and stole their mothers car. Little do they know as the story goes on, their night turns from good to almost a never ending death trap. The boys learn that they are not as grown up as they think, and realize they were going down a bad road. The point of view in this story is coming from the narrator, first person. It is not the best perspective, as it only gives us one view point of the story.