Rabu, 26 Juni 2013

Reading Novel 'card'



 


1. ABOUT THE BOOK AND THE AUTHOR

TITLE : THE GREAT GATSBY

AUTHOR : F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

FIRST PUBLISHER :APRIL’1925

GENRE :CHICK LIT

2. AUTHORS’ BYBLIOGRAPHY
F. Scott Fitzgerald was bornFrancis Scott Key Fitzgerald on September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota. His namesake (and second cousin three times removed on his father's side) was Francis Scott Key, who wrote the lyrics to the "Star-Spangled Banner." Fitzgerald's mother, Mary McQuillan, was from an Irish-Catholic family that had made a small fortune in Minnesota as wholesale grocers. His father, Edward Fitzgerald, had opened a wicker furniture business in St. Paul, and, when it failed, he took a job as a salesman for Procter & Gamble that took his family back and forth between Buffalo and Syracuse in upstate New York during the first decade of Fitzgerald's life. However, Edward Fitzgerald lost his job with Procter & Gamble in 1908, when F. Scott Fitzgerald was 12, and the family moved back to St. Paul to live off of his mother's inheritance.
Fitzgerald was a bright, handsome and ambitious boy, the pride and joy of his parents and especially his mother. He attended the St. Paul Academy, and when he was 13, he saw his first piece of writing appear in print: a detective story published in the school newspaper. In 1911, when Fitzgerald was 15 years old, his parents sent him to the Newman School, a prestigious Catholic preparatory school in New Jersey. There, he met Father Sigourney Fay, who noticed his incipient talent with the written word and encouraged him to pursue his literary ambitions.

4. KEY ELEMENTS OF THE PLOT
CHARACTERS
Jordan Baker 
Daisy’s good friend. She is an attractive and wealthy young golfer whom Nick dates while he is in New York. A compulsive liar and a cheat, she is almost as shallow and careless as Daisy.

Jay Gatsby
He is famous for the lavish parties he throws every Saturday night. Gatsby as a deeply flawed man, dishonest and vulgar, whose extraordinary optimism and power to transform his dreams into reality make him “great” nonetheless.

George Wilson 
Myrtle’s husband and the owner of a garage in the Valley of Ashes. He idolizes his wife and goes crazy when she is killed. Thinking that Gatsby is responsible for her death, he shoots him and then kills himself.

Catherine 
The sister of Myrtle who is as tacky and ostentatious as Myrtle.


Mr. and Mrs. McKee 
The couple who lives in the apartment below the one that Tom keeps for Myrtle in the city. They come to the party at Myrtle’s apartment.

Meyer Wolfsheim 
The shady Jewish business associate of Gatsby. He wears human molars as cufflinks, fixed the world series, and makes his money through gambling and racketeering.


5. KEY ELEMENTS OF THE PLOT
Michaelis 
One of the few friends of George Wilson. He is a young Greek man who owns a coffee shop in the Valley of Ashes, located next to Wilson’s garage. He is the only eye witness to Myrtle’s accidental death and tries to comfort Wilson over the loss.

Owl-Eyes 
A middle-aged man who frequents Gatsby’s parties. He is one of the few people who show up at Gatsby’s funeral.

Klipspringer 
A frequent guest at Gatsby’s parties, who is called “the boarder” and often plays the piano.

Dan Cody 
The wealthy man who employed Gatsby as a youth and taught him about business. Although he is never actually seen in the novel, Gatsby explains all about him to Nick, and he is instrumental in shaping Gatsby’s life.

Henry C. Gatz 
Gatsby’s father. He is seen for the first time when he comes to his son’s funeral. He is an old, nervous man who is proud of Gatsby’s wealth.

Pammy Buchanan 
The daughter of Tom and Daisy. She appears only for a moment in the book to show that Daisy is incapable of any depth of maternal love; for her, Pammy is a toy or plaything.
6. KEY ELEMENTS OF THE PLOT
SETTING
The novel is set in New York in the 1920’s, at Nick Carraway’s bungalow and Gatsby’s mansion on West Egg, at the Buchanan’s mansion on East Egg, in various places in New York City, including Myrtle’s apartment, the Plaza Hotel, and a restaurant across from The Metropole, and in the Valley of Ashes

COMPLICATION
Tom Buchanan takes an instant disliking to Gatsby, even before he knows that Daisy is weeping over Gatsby's beautiful shirts. His investigation complicates matters considerably. Turns out, Jay Gatsby is really James Gatz, a poor kid who earned all his wealth from organized crime (gambling, bootlegging liquor). No wonder Gatsby has so much trouble fitting in.

CLIMAX
The Love Train
Tom and Gatsby have a tense but understated showdown around who gets to control Daisy, and (surprise) Tom wins. He seals his victory by letting them drive home together, just to rub it in Gatsby's face. But when the others follow behind, they discover that Myrtle was killed by a speeding yellow car that failed to stop. Apparently, a meteoric rise to the top sometimes comes with casualties.

7. KEY ELEMENTS OF THE PLOT

RESOLUTION
This eventful day is a turning point for Nick; ironically, it is also his thirtieth birthday. He finally sees the shallowness and carelessness of Daisy, Tom, and all the wealthy Easterners. As a result, he decides he does not want to spend the rest of his life in New York, married to some woman like Jordan Baker. He will move back to the Midwest and marry the girl back home. He knows for sure he has made the right decision when he learns that it was Daisy who was driving the car and never stopped and when Gatsby is needlessly shot by Wilson, who thinks Gatsby is his wife’s lover and murderer. Daisy does not even call to express her sorrow or send flowers to the funeral. In fact, no one other than the hired help comes to Gatsby’s funeral except for Nick, Gatsby’s father (Mr. Gatz), and “Owl Eyes” from Gatsby’s parties. It is a sad ending to a tragic life; but Nick knows that the ostentatious Gatsby, because of the purity of his dream and his devotion to it, is better than the “whole damn lot” of the Buchanans and their likes from East Egg.

8. The reaction of the book

I enjoyed reading this novel, because the novel is about friendship, free life, the difference between wealthy Americans and the dreamers in America. and this novel teaches that adultery there is no benefit, and would ruin the friendship that exists.

I'm not going to read from the same author, because after I read this book, there is no problem a good settlement. So I'm not going to read the next novel because I do not like solving problems like this.

I would recommend this novel to my friends. because at this novel meant to suggest that does not settlement who good for infidelity.

9. THE OTHER TOPICS

The part that I like is when gatsby doing everything possible to get rich in America. he did not want to just be a dreamer. even all the way done. He has the optimism and tremendous power to transform his dreams into reality make it "big" fixed.

In this novel I liked the character of Daisy Buchanan, because nature has a loyal, mature and know which one is best for him. Daisy is a lover of Gatsby. She is very loyal to her even. but Gatsby does not give certainty. after that there is another man who is more certain, namely Tom, he prefers Tom. Of this conflict I would like more to know what next happens. So I read more..
3. difficulty
LANGUAGE
1. Use of technical or unusual vocabulary
This book is difficult because there are many difficult words in each pages. 
2. Use of complicated sentences
There are many complicated sentences in this novel. Sometimes I got metaphor language in some chapter.

PLOT or POINT OF VIEW
1. Point of view
In this novel the writer used the first point of view
2. Multiple time frames
The writer use multiple time frames, past and future.

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