Agenda 10/30 Review Vocabulary “The Green Light” Journal Color Symbolism Activity – Complete paper analysis; tomorrow we will be in the library for the technology elements. Homework: Study for Vocabulary Quiz

Journal #2 Consider the ending of The Great Gastby: Most of the big shore places were closed now and there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of a ferryboat across the Sound. And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors’ eyes — a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby’s house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder. And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night. 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 —— So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Journal #2 What does the color green symbolize in The Great Gatsby? One word answer. What does shining lights symbolize in The Great Gatsby? One word answer. What does the green light symbolize in The Great Gatsby? One complete sentence answer. Then we will complete a SPES together, answer the prompt: What does the Green Light at the end of Daisy’s dock symbolize for Gatsby? S: In The Great Gatsby, the Green Light symbolizes Gatsby’s desire for a life with Daisy. P: For example, Nick compares the Green Light to the Green Hills of a new America: “I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors’ eyes — a fresh, green breast of the new world” (180). E: By describing the new world as a “green breast,” Nick shows how the true American Dream fed the sailor’s hope like an infant. However, the green light is artificial and a man-made version of the American Dream. S: Therefore, Gatsby’s desire for Daisy is artificial; it will not make him happy, because he does not love the real woman, just the idea of her.

Journal #2 What does the color green symbolize in The Great Gatsby? One word answer. What does shining lights symbolize in The Great Gatsby? One word answer. What does the green light symbolize in The Great Gatsby? One complete sentence answer. Then we will complete a SPES together, answer the prompt: What does the Green Light at the end of Daisy’s dock symbolize for Gatsby? Next week IN CLASS… Present Color Symbolism Presentations (Monday 11/3) Write a class essay (Monday 11/3 to Monday 11/10) Work on Unit Project (Tuesday 11/4 to Monday 11/10) The only homework will be what you do not finish in class.

Color Imagery in The Great Gatsby

Directions Your group will select their color… GREEN GOLD/RED WHITE YELLOW GRAY Slide #1: Your group will be provided three of the best moments when the color is used as a symbol. On your first slide, included a three quotes from each excerpt where the color is used. Make sure to include proper in-text citations (Fitzgerald 13). Slides #2-4: Then on three separate slides focus in on each quote. Each slide should include its individual quote and answer the following questions … What object does the color relate to? What character does the color relate to? What is the symbolic meaning of the color in the scene? Slides #5&6: Then on two additional slides, answer the EQs… 1) Through the entire novel so far, what is the one central meaning of the color? 2) Which of the following characters is symbolically represented by your color. Explain. GATSBY NICK DAISY TOM JORDAN GEORGE WILSON MYRTLE

Gray

Quotes Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations from your sight. But above the gray land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it, you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg (Fitzgerald Chp2). Wilson’s glazed eyes turned out to the ashheaps, where small gray clouds took on fantastic shape and scurried here and there in the faint dawn wind. “I spoke to her,” he muttered, after a long silence. “I told her she might fool me but she couldn’t fool God. I took her to the window.”— with an effort he got up and walked to the rear window and leaned with his face pressed against it ——” and I said ‘God knows what you’ve been doing, everything you’ve been doing. You may fool me, but you can’t fool God!’” (Fitsgerald Chp 8). His eyes leaked continuously with excitement, and when I took the bag and umbrella from his hands he began to pull so incessantly at his sparse gray beard that I had difficulty in getting off his coat. He was on the point of collapse, so I took him into the music room and made him sit down while I sent for something to eat. But he wouldn’t eat, and the glass of milk spilled from his trembling hand (Fitzgerald Chp 9).

Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations from your sight. But above the gray land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it, you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg (Fitzgerald Chp2). OBJECTS: Cars, Men, Land CHARACTERS: The Eyes of T.J. Eckleburg MEANING: Poverty & Hopelessness – Here everything and everyone that is the color gray is falling apart or depressed. Furthermore, Eckleburg that symbolizes God does nothing to help.

Wilson’s glazed eyes turned out to the ashheaps, where small gray clouds took on fantastic shape and scurried here and there in the faint dawn wind. “I spoke to her,” he muttered, after a long silence. “I told her she might fool me but she couldn’t fool God. I took her to the window.”— with an effort he got up and walked to the rear window and leaned with his face pressed against it ——” and I said ‘God knows what you’ve been doing, everything you’ve been doing. You may fool me, but you can’t fool God!’” (Fitsgerald Chp 8). OBJECTS: Clouds CHARACTERS: George Wilson MEANING: Imminent Doom – the gray clouds foreshadow that Wilson’s anger will cause something terrible is about to happen. Wilson looks to Eckleburg as a God-like guidance. However, God is absent and the sign is only reminisce of his past presence.

His eyes leaked continuously with excitement, and when I took the bag and umbrella from his hands he began to pull so incessantly at his sparse gray beard that I had difficulty in getting off his coat. He was on the point of collapse, so I took him into the music room and made him sit down while I sent for something to eat. But he wouldn’t eat, and the glass of milk spilled from his trembling hand (Fitzgerald Chp 9). OBJECTS: Beard CHARACTERS: Gatsby’s Father MEANING: Defeat – the color relates to Gatsby’s father who is sadden do to his son’s death. Gatsby’s father does not know anything of Gatsby’s new identity and, instead, still sees Gatsby as the young boy James Gatz.

Through the entire novel so far, what is the one central meaning of the color? Throughout the novel, the color gray symbolizes hopelessness. This is proven by the three quotes that link the color gray to The Valley of Ashes, ominous clouds, and a mourning father’s beard. What all of these three elements have in common is that they are places, things, and people who will never see peaceful joy. Furthermore, the one object that can help, The Eyes of TJ Eckleburg, actually represents an absent God. Therefore, those affected by the color gray will never find relief.

2. Which of the following characters is symbolically represented by your color. The character that is most symbolically linked to the color gray is George Wilson. Readers know that he is doomed from the beginning of the novel. He is a poor man with a cheating wife. We know he will never become rich and his wife will never love him. Therefore, it is clear that his fate is hopeless. This is proven in the end, when he commits both murder and suicide.