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This Haiku Deck presentation template for sharing inspirational quotes was created using the Picaresque theme, image filters off.

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Simple, beautiful, flexible presentation template to share a collection of inspirational quotes. Ideas: embed in blog or website, upload to Slideshare, pin individual slides to Pinterest.

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Haiku Deck presentation template for sharing inspirational quotes was created using the Picaresque theme, image filters off.

More about Haiku Deck themes: http://blog.haikudeck.com/presentation-templates-with-pizzazz/
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The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Haiku Deck presentation template for sharing inspirational quotes was created using the Picaresque theme, image filters off.

More about Haiku Deck themes: http://blog.haikudeck.com/presentation-templates-with-pizzazz/
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Major characters

  • Nick Caraway
  • Daisy Buchanan
  • Jay Gatsby
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Nick Caraway

  • Narrator
  • moves from the midwest to New york to learn the bond business
  • Daisy's cousin
  • gatsby's neighbor

Jay gatsby

  • novel's title character
  • rose from an impoverished childhood to become fabulously wealthy
  • madly in love with daisy buchanan

daisy buchanan

  • partially based on zelda fitzgerald
  • beautiful young woman
  • object of gatsby's love

Other characters

  • Tom buchanan
  • george wilson
  • myrtle wilson
  • jordan baker

Setting

East egg
=
Old money

West egg
=
new money

the valley of ashes
=
moral and
social decay

Theme

The notion of the american dream is merely an illusion

Money and materialism lead to social and moral corruption

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s y m b o l s

eyes of dr. t.j. eckleburg

cars

The Green Light

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic that year by year recedes before us."

If your quote is long, you'll either want to use a fairly abstract image for the background (be sure to turn the text background screen on for readability)...
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M o t i f s

"old sport"

parties

cheating

yellow

  • money, money, money
  • oh, and death
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White

  • femininity
  • purity ... maybe
  • white is often used to describe daisy
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green

  • life
  • vitality
  • the future... hope?
  • desire
  • envy

Grey / lack of color

  • lifelessness
  • grey is used to describe george Wilson

The phrase pathetic fallacy is a literary term for the attributing of human emotion and conduct to all aspects within nature

Pathetic Fallacy

...or a solid-color background, like this.

weather

  • daisy and Gatsby reunion begins amid a pouring rain
  • their love reawakens as the sun comes out
  • gatsby's confrontation with tom occurs on the hottest day of summer
  • cool - death