Chapter 1: EXAMPLE
Chapter
Creative Title:
Choose a
creative title for
your chapter
once you have
read it
Two interesting Quote: “In consequence, I’m inclined to reserve all
quote and
judgments…Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite
significance.
hope” (1-2).
Include
quotation
marks and page
number
Reason why you picked that title:
Significance: Nick shares this advice because he wants the reader to
know that he is non-judgmental, but very much aware of his class.
Fitzgerald wants to establish Nick as a credible narrator and a
sympathetic character.
Question 1
Question: Can you compare/Contrast East Egg vs. West
(Must be from
Egg by making a Venn Diagram?
question cues
OR verbs from Level of Thinking: Analyzing
Bloom’s
Taxonomy
Question Sheet)
Your Answer: A paragraph comparing/contrasting or attach a Venn
Diagram to this sheet.
Question 2
Question: Evaluate Nick’s role as a narrator: Is Nick a
(Must be from
reliable narrator? Justify why or why not?
question cues
OR verbs from Level of Thinking: Evaluating
Bloom’s
Taxonomy
Question Sheet)
Your Answer: The Great Gatsby is told entirely thought Nick’s eyes.
To establish Nick’s credibility, Fitzgerald has Nick tell the reader how
he reserves judgment to show the reader that Nick will tell the story
without bias—as if he was telling the story as an observer or third
person narrator. However, I do not think Nick is a reliable narrator and
does pass judgment because as Nick introduces us to the other
characters throughout the first chapter it becomes clear that he does
judge Tom. Through the eyes of Nick, Tom is described in a negative
tone—Tom is straw-haired, bossy, muscular man in his thirties with
arrogant eyes. Fitzgerald has Nick use words with negative
connotations such as arrogant, proud, hard, shifting, and cruel in
describing Tom, causing the reader to immediately dislike Tom.
Nick clearly passes judgment when he describes this character.
URL/LINK to connection:
Either print out the article for your group or email me the link so I can
Make a
connection to
Explain Connection:
the outside
world—
personal,
historical, other
literature etc.
This can be a
video, an
article, a
quote, etc. Be
sure to
EXPLAIN—
not just attach
the article or
link.
I am relating Daisy’s character to Kim Kardashian.
put it on your Ipads before class.
Daisy’s tells Nick her hopes for her daughter, “I hope
(article attached to the bottom)
she’ll be a fool—that is the best thing a girl can be in the
world, a beautiful little fool” (17). Society during Daisy's
time views the role of a woman to be appealing by her
appearance rather than her smarts. Daisy implies that a
girl can have more fun if she is beautiful and simplistic.
She also implies that if her daughter is a fool then she will
not overthink decisions or care what people think—a fool,
in her eyes, can live an easy life. Although she is not
unintelligent, Daisy is vulnerable by the influence of the
standards of society, thus she makes this statement of her
daughter to be a "beautiful little fool." While filming the
most recent movie adaptation of The Great Gatsby, the
actress that plays Daisy, Carey Mulligan, was interviewed
by Vogue magazine about her role as Daisy and said that
Daisy Buchanan was like a Kardashian. Daisy is a
somewhat pessimistic character who behaves very
superficially, which she thinks will mask her pain. In the
article, Carey Mulligan explains how Daisy is
“…constantly on show, performing all the time” similar
the reality star Kim Kardashian. It can be argued that Kim
Kardashian lets her looks do the talking and creates this
superficial world in her reality show.
Connection:
4/16/13 at 12:21 PM
Carey Mulligan: Daisy Buchanan Was a Kardashian
BY KAT STOEFFE
Carey Mulligan’s Vogue-approved interpretation of Daisy Buchanan for Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby is inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s
real-life inspirations: Zelda Fitzgerald, Ginevra King, and their latter-day sistren Kim, Kourtney, and Khloe Kardashian. Mulligan explains:
“ ‘I seem always curiously interested in myself, and it’s so much fun to stand off and look at me. . . .’ That’s a direct Zelda quote. It’s that kind
of feeling: I’m-so-little-and-there’s-nothing-to-me, watch-me-have-nothing-to-me. She feels like she’s living in a movie of her own life. She’s
constantly on show, performing all the time. Nothing bad can happen in a dream. You can’t die in a dream. She’s in her own TV show. She’s
like a Kardashian.”