AP Lang. IRL

  After reading and analyzing satire: “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, exaggeration is used to illustrate the big-picture idea that is present in most of Fitzgerald’s work (that money is the root of most problems). Personally, I connected this to the media today, and how it works now, more than ever, to promote consumerism through social media.     Today in the media, lifestyles and materialistic-status items are shown VERY excessively, almost in an exaggerated way. This is to keep these ideas present in the minds of youth and other impressionable members of society. In a similar way, DBR also describes life in an obviously exaggerated fashion. By doing this, the point of the short story comes across extremely clearly. Coherently, social media advertising shown in dramatic amounts in order for people to become more consumeristic. After people spend time being influenced by these idealistic things, they become obsessed with money in order to purchas...

After reading The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, it’s come to my attention that many quotes have deep, significant meaning throughout the book. Like all literature, quotes have metaphors and deeper meanings that you need to read between the lines to figure out. Therefore, for the most beautiful quote of the novel, I picked the last line of the last chapter. “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”. I believe this is the most beautiful quote of the book because it truly sums up Gatsby’s journey and brings everything full circle. The part of the quote “So we beat on, boats against the current” demonstrates how Gatsby was chasing Daisy ‘against the current’ as her name symbolizes via her unattainability by having gold at her core. Against the current, meaning that he was trying to make something work that was never meant to be. As for the last part of the quote: “…borne back ceaselessly into the past”, he obviously died and nothing that he di...