Shake+n'+Bake

[|Great Gatsby: The Movie]

Things to do 1. Read Book- Everyone Daniela- **Diary/ Journal Entries + Postcard ( pretty and colorful please)** Dan- **Fable. use bunnies call if you need help drawing** Sarah- **Concrete Found Poem - pretttttyyy and 3D/color** Jess- **Menu (Creative and pretty please)** Chris- **Wanted Ad(s) -3- colorful and pretty please** Nikita- **Newspaper story** Extras: Recipes, Crossword, Cast List
 * Here is a sample cast list [|http://www.imdb.com/title/tt007/1577]**

=Discussion Notes for Team Shake n' Bake=

Characterization- Jess Meyers

 * Chapter - Notes - Quotes**


 * **8** Nick-still very concerned for the welfare of his friends //Pg.154-155“something I had to tell him”. “You should get away for a while”//
 * **8** Gatsby- still infatuated with Daisy //Pg.154-155“Nothing happened…” “He wouldn’t consider it…”//
 * **8** Gatsby- weak willed //Pg.155 “Told it to me because “Jay Gatsby”//
 * **8** Gatsby- loved Daisy because of wealth and desirability //Pg.155-156 “He found her excitingly desirable…”//
 * **8** Gatsby and Daisy- both indecisive and searching for some sort of rationalization //Pg.157 “He felt married to her is all” Pg.159 “She wanted her life shaped now, immediately..”//
 * **8** Nick-considered Gatsby’s dream incorruptible //Pg.162 “The lawn and drive had been…”//
 * **8-9** Wilson-coward //Pg.170 “And the holocaust was complete”//
 * **9** Nick-develops as a strong, independent character from the quiet one he started as //Pg.177 “Wait a minute, I interrupted”//
 * **9** Wolfshiem-even more underhanded and unfeeling than before portrayed //Pg.180 “Let us learn to show our friendship…”//
 * **9** Gatsby- goal driven //Pg.182 “Jimmy was bound to get ahead…”//
 * **9** Nick and Jordan-honesty? //Pg.186 “I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person..”//
 * **9** Tom and Daisy-careless //Pg.187 “I told him the truth…”//

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Daisy is like an egg. White and sinless on the outside, but still has the corruption and yellow yolk on the inside. (like an egg, east egg)
 * Symbolism- Daniela Depaoli Sarah Cotter**
 * DARK
 * Dark symbolizes gloom and the negative events that accompany it.
 * //“Innumerable feet of dark wall for electric switches”// (147)
 * Daisy’s hair “//dark and shiny//” last time Gatsby saw her. (149)
 * After Mrytle’s death – //“dark spots in the dust”// (156)
 * Nick in Wolfshiem’s office, the sky is dark. (173)
 * BRIGHT
 * Symbolizes the positive side of people when they are happy, anticipating that something good will happen.
 * //“Her porch was bright with the luxury of star-shine”// ((Daisy’s)) (177)
 * //“His gorgeous pink rag of a suit made a bright spot of color against the white steps.”(//159)
 * Colors is used by the author to show how society expresses itself. (white at weddings, black at funerals, red with war and love.. etc.)**
 * GREEN
 * The American Dream, The past events with Daisy, hope, envy
 * //“I thought of Gatsby’s words where he first reached out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock… his dreams must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.”//(180)
 * //“Gatsby believed in the green light…it eluded us.” (180)//
 * WHITE
 * White symbolizes purity and the lack of sin.
 * Daisy’s white car (152)
 * The white steps of Gatsby’s house (154 and 180)
 * //“Drunken women in a white evening dream”//(176)
 * YELLOW
 * Also symbolizes wealth, moral decay
 * Gatsby’s yellow car (157)
 * //“Then out into the spring fields where a yellow trolley raced them for a minute”// (153) ((people are chasing wealth))
 * //“And at last the murky yellow cars of Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul railroad looking as cheerful as Christmas itself on the tracks beside the”// (170) ((faded wealth))
 * Frequently used with death
 * //"Into the garage which was lit only by a yellow light in the swining basket overhead."(145 blue cover book ) ((Myrtle's death))//
 * //"Once he stopped and shifted it a little and the chauffeur asked him if he needed help, but he shook his head and in a moment disappeared among the yellowing trees." (169 blue cover book) ((right before Gatsby is shot))//
 * //possible connection that seeking wealth throughtout your life never has a good ending.//
 * GOLD AND SILVER
 * Wealth
 * //“Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the vast struggles of the poor.”//(150)
 * //“ A hundred pairs of gold and silver slippers shuffled in the dust.”// (151) ((The parties that Daisy attended))
 * //“Gatsby filled his whole house with gray- turning gold-turning light”// (152)
 * GATSBY'S TO DO LIST
 * Striving for the American dream at a very early age. Life Goal
 * "//Jimmy was bound to get ahead. He always had some resolves like this or something.." (182)//
 * DEATH OF GATSBY
 * The end of the American dream and the people chasing it, of Gatsby, and of Wilson.
 * //“It was after we started with Gatsby toward the house that the gardener saw Wilson’s body a little way off in the grass and the holocaust was complete.”//(162)
 * ALCOHOL
 * Superficial qualities of the American dream, the escapes from reality to the American dream.
 * //“After that I felt a certain shame for Gatsby. One gentleman to whom I telephoned implied that he had got what he deserved. However that was my fault, for he was on of those who used to sneer most bitterly at Gatsby on the courage of Gatsby’s liquor.”// (169)

=Plot - Chris Schneck= · Gatsby’s gardener tells him that the pool is going to be drained but Gatsby wants to keep it open for one more day because he has yet to use the pool. · After Myrtles death, Wilson talks with Michaelis and tells him that Wilson had confronted Myrtle about her affair. He told her that God sees everything. During this conversation, Wilson sees the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg and starts to believe that whoever was driving the car was Myrtle’s lover. · Wilson goes to Gatsby’s house, where he finds him in the pool, and shoots Gatsby, and then kills himself. · Nick goes to Gatsby’s house and sees Gatsby dead in his pool. · Nick writes chapter 9 two years later. · After Gatsby’s death, there were a lot of reporters and journalists at Gatsby’s house and many new rumors were spread about the parties and about Gatsby himself. · Nick tries to have a great funeral for Gatsby with a lot of people, but no one that he invites can go. · Gatsby’s dad sends a letter saying to delay the funeral until he gets there. · After the funeral, Nick decides to move back west. · Nick sees Tom in NYC and doesn’t want to shake his hand. Tom thinks Gatsby deserved to die. Nick starts thinking that Tom and Daisy don’t care about anything accept their money. · Nick starts thinking that the story is about the West instead of the East where it takes place. All of the characters are from the West and Nick thinks that the East is grotesque and like an El Greco painting · Before Nick moves, he goes to Gatsby’s house one last time and erases an obscene word. He than goes to the beach and thinks about life. Gatsby had a dream for Daisy, and now it is gone. || · “You may fool me, but you can’t fool God!” (P159) · “Most of those reports were a nightmare—grotesque, circumstantial, eager, and untrue.” (P163) · “I see it as a night scene by El Greco: a hundred houses, at once conventional and grotesque, crouching under a sullen, overhanging sky and a lustreless moon.” (P176) · “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning—“ (P180) || =Themes- Dan= “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy-they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, and let other people clean up the mess they had made….” (179)
 * · After lying in bed all night after the death of Myrtle, Nick goes to Gatsby’s house. Gatsby tells him that Daisy never tried to communicate to him while he was waiting outside her house. Gatsby refuses to leave her because he really loved her.
 * · After lying in bed all night after the death of Myrtle, Nick goes to Gatsby’s house. Gatsby tells him that Daisy never tried to communicate to him while he was waiting outside her house. Gatsby refuses to leave her because he really loved her.
 * · After lying in bed all night after the death of Myrtle, Nick goes to Gatsby’s house. Gatsby tells him that Daisy never tried to communicate to him while he was waiting outside her house. Gatsby refuses to leave her because he really loved her.
 * · After lying in bed all night after the death of Myrtle, Nick goes to Gatsby’s house. Gatsby tells him that Daisy never tried to communicate to him while he was waiting outside her house. Gatsby refuses to leave her because he really loved her.
 * · After lying in bed all night after the death of Myrtle, Nick goes to Gatsby’s house. Gatsby tells him that Daisy never tried to communicate to him while he was waiting outside her house. Gatsby refuses to leave her because he really loved her.
 * · “You know, old sport, I’ve never used that pool all summer?” (P153)
 * Decline of the American Dream
 * Gatsby embodies the American dream
 * Gained riches through his own ‘work’
 * “He rose up to his position in the East.”
 * His failure is the American Dreams Failure
 * He failed to win Daisy because of his West Egg status, proving that not any man can become anything he wants to be.
 * Upper Class’ Hollow Lifestyle
 * Rich live empty lives
 * Loss of morals
 * Adultery, lies, corruption, decadence, flat relationships
 * The response of a man when Nick informs him of Gatsby’s funeral “What I called up about was a pair of shoes I left there.” (169)
 * Hundreds of people attended the alcoholic parties Gatsby hosted, yet the procession was only three cars long. (174)
 * Shows the emptiness in peoples lives and their only desire to abuse alcohol
 * Corruption of the East
 * Morally sound characters start from the west
 * Nick and Gatsby born in ‘the west’
 * Gatsby’s and Nick were the only two men to not be ruined by the east
 * Nick moves back west while Gatsby is buried were his dream, Daisy and the green light, lived.
 * Tom and Daisy take cover behind their money to avoid accountability for their actions.
 * Tom's affair
 * Daisy’s hit and run

= = =Writing Style - Nikita Kandpal= Fitzgerald uses weather in the background to help reflect the plot and scene of the story.
 * EXAMPLES:** Rain, Clouds, autumn weather, etc.
 * Quotes:** //“The night had made a sharp difference in the weather and there was an autumn flavor in the air” Page 153//
 * “**//If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream…” Page 161//
 * “**//…in a thick drizzle beside the gate…” Page 174//

Fitzgerald continues to use a very poetic style of writing, rich with similes and metaphors to reflect the idealistic dreaming of the main character, Gatsby. By using such language in describing various situations, some of the more distinct themes and symbols (Flowers/Colors) become incorporated into the background. This also enhances some of the most profound lines of the novel, adding another complex layer to this seemingly basic story. //“…filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning light. The shadow of a tree fell abruptly across the dew…” Page 152// //“Usually her [Jordan] voice came over the wire as something fresh and cool, as if a divot from a green golf-links had come sailing in at the office window…” Page 155// //“Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby’s house…” Page 180//
 * Quotes:** //“For Daisy was young and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery and…” Page 151//

The author makes many small incongruent, almost distasteful comments through these two chapters to emphasize certain events that take place in the book. //“…Wilson’s body was a little way off in the grass, and the holocaust was complete.” Page 162// //“I thought the whole tale would shortly be served up in racy pasquinade…” Page 163// //“The Swastika Holding Company” and “a lovely Jewess” Page 170//
 * Quotes:** //“…Myrtle Wilson’s tragic achievement was forgotten.” Page 156//
 * Pasquinade- a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style***

Fitzgerald also uses accents and different manners of speech to describe the characters to the reader. This can be seen through Wolfsheim’s “Oggsford”, Gatsby’s “old sport”, and even Wilson’s way of speaking. //“I’m [Wilson[ one of those trusting fellows and I don’t think any harm to// no//body, but when I get to know a thing I know it.” Page 159// //“When he told me [Wolfsheim] he was an Oggsford…” Page 171
 * Quotes:** //“You must remember old sport…” Page 152//

dan's sources for fable http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/3844/#themes// http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americannovel/timeline/fitzgerald.html