The Great Gatsby background / American Dream

Interesting Facts

1. He published his first writing when he was just 14 years old.

2. He met his wife when he was serving the army as a lieutenant.

3. Before he was a novelist he was an ad man

4. He is named after Francis Scott Key

5. It took him two proposals to get Zelda to say yes.

6. He became great friends with Ernest Hemingway

7. He hated the first movie they made about The Great Gatsby

8. He was hired by MGM which made him move to Hollywood

9. He only had one child, which he named Frances Scott.

10. He wrote his first novel during WWI

The american dream is a very popular dream. A lot of people from outside of the United States have the american dream which is the wish to have a better quality of life, better income, and a better job by moving to the U.S.

Yes, we think it´s still valid because the U.S. sometimes has better jobs and better salaries to offer than certain countries, so people from that country are allowed to have the american dream.

 (Scott Fitzgerald)

Miss P, I did this blog with Christian Bohl but he forgot to put my name on it. Thanks

 

A Moveable Feast – The Lost Generation

1) What is the “Lost Generation”? 

– The lost generation is the generation that came of age during World War 1. The term was popularized by Hemingway who was the one who wrote “A moveable Feast.”

2) What role did Hemingway play in popularizing this term?

– Hemingway popularized it because he was the one who used it as one of 2 contrasting epigraphs on his novel.

3) Why was Gertrude Stein so important in the art world?

– She was so important in the art world because she kept finding and looking for underated american artists and writers and helped them in their career.

4) Describe Stein´s salón at 27 rue de Fleurus. (include an image)

-This was the house where the writers and painters got together to work. They usually got together on Saturday evenings to help define modernism.

(Image from Google.com found by “Stein´s salón at 27 rue de Fleurus”.)

5) Define expatriate

– Expatriate: Is a person temporary or permanently residing in another country, which is not the country where he or she was born.

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Hello Miss P, sorry for being late and not doing it when I was supposed to, here it is finally. Have a great day.

-Johan