The Great Gatsby

Attached is the essay instructions .please follow the attached instructions onlyrics. Thank you. Name: _________________ Great Gatsby Essay 2016 Midterm With a partner you must write an introduction, two body paragraphs and a conclusion proving a well-written, clear thesis which answers ONE of the questions below AND connects to the poem below. Use OneNote and Google Docs to collaborate, outline and organize your ideas first, then create for writing the essay. Groups will add me to the Google Doc so I can monitor progress and see that all responsibilities are shared, and then both students will submit the essay to Turnitin.com. Topic 1 James Gatz, Jay Gatsby’s real name, was a young, idealistic boy living in the Midwest. He embraced the American Dream and followed it relentlessly. Somewhere along the way his dream changed. Identify the dream in its infancy, explain where and why it changes, and discuss the results of this. Be sure to incorporate symbols into your analysis. Topic 2 F Scott Fitzgerald writes The Great Gatsby to comment on the society in which he is living. One of the book’s major themes, or comments, deals with morality and responsibility. Identify this theme in your own words and use symbols to discuss its presence throughout the novel. The Valve by David R. Slavitt The one-way flow of time we take for granted, but what if the valve is defective? What if the threads on the stem wear thin, or the stuffing box or the bonnet ring leaks, or the joints to the pipe ring fail, and there's backwash? It happens. And then old loves, meeting again, have no idea what to do, resuming or not resuming from where they were years before. Or the dead come back to chat. Or you are reduced for a giddy moment to childhood's innocent incompetence. You look up as if to see some hint in the sky's blackboard. But then, whatever it was, some fluff or grit that clogged the works, works free, and again time passes, almost as before, and you try to get on with your life.