The Greatest Gatsby

This year, I took a different path and decided to take an advanced placement English class to try to improve my language skills, thoroughly analyze different types of works, and expand my vocabulary. I enjoyed most of the topics we covered, but the story that I really enjoyed was The Great Gatsby. This novel is a famous story from the Roaring Twenties that has been turned into two movies and talked about constantly all over America. I had watched the film but by reading and analyzing the novel, I was able to fully understand the meaning of the book and compare it to my every day experiences. Love, hate, money, corruption are many of the few themes portrayed in the story. It made me see the world in a different way. Not everything is the way we see it. It taught me about the 'American Dream'. The dream is a topic we discuss all the time when learning United States History. It is now a concept I fully understand after being able to visualize scenes that the author has so creatively made in the readers mind. Without having to talk about the subject, the author has perfectly described how a person from any social background could make a fortune. However, the most important concept in this story was not how Gatsby did it, but why. Love. And that is why I enjoyed reading this novel and enjoyed being experienced to a new theme.