Scott fitzgerald biography summary graphic organizers

After reading The Great Gatsby, explore the novel's point of view with your students. Ask students to consider how the story, told from the point of view of the narrator Nick Carraway, might be different from another perspective. For instance, how might the novel change if it were retold from Gatsby's point of view? If it were retold from Daisy Buchanan's or Myrtle Wilson's point of view?

Have students work in pairs. Each pair of students should select a chapter from the novel, and then rewrite the chapter from the point of view of a different character. When they've completed their retellings, ask each pair to compare and contrast their papers. How were their chapters different? Similar? How did their chapters compare to the original?

Bring the class together and lead a discussion about the role of perspective in The Great Gatsby, and why Fitzgerald may have chosen the perspective he used in writing the novel.

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The document provides a graphic organizer about the main characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby". It includes boxes with details about Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway, Tom Buchanan, and Daisy Buchanan. Students are directed to analyze each character, determining whether they are round or flat, static or dynamic, and whether their main conflict is internal or external. They are to support their analysis with quotes and explanations from the novel.

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The document provides a graphic organizer about the main characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby". It includes boxes with details about Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway, Tom Buch

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F. Scott Fitzgerald: a biography,
by Andr&#; Le Vot, translated from the French by William Byron

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I. AN AMERICAN EDUCATION ()

1. THE CHILD AND THE LEGEND ()

Let's begin with the Christian names. Fitzgerald's—Francis Scott Key—constitute a program, point a direction. Not the first name for the father, nor the second for the mother, as is so often the case in the United States, but a jump three generations back for three indissociable names designating the patron under whose aegis the child was to be placed: Francis Scott Key, first cousin of a paternal great-grandmother, Eliza Key Scott. Fitzgerald did not choose them, but he accepted them, assumed and bore them like a flag. And this patronage really was a matter of flags and plumes, as though, the Christian name given, he had then to conquer a last name. Francis Scott Key: four strongly rhythmic syllables, rich in connotations, a prelude after the repetition of the opening F to the pyramidal symmetry of the final, still meani