The Great Gatsby

Read the following statements/questions.  Respond to one using text evidence to support your thinking.  Reply to at least one of your friends.

Scene analysis:  select a key scene and interpret its significance in the text's larger meaning.  What does that scene allow Fitzgerald to express - or what attitudes or intentions are expressed unintentionally by it?

OR

The American Dream.  What does Fitzgerald criticize?  What does he value?  

OR

Discuss Nick's unreliability as a narrator.  What doesn't Nick see?

Huck Finn: Chapters 29 - 38

Two different types of morality are demonstrated in the novel.  Compare Huck's morality with Tom's.  How are they different?  Explain the origins of each boy's sense of morality.  Cite examples from the novel to support your answer.

Huck Finn: Chapters 19 - 28

What is the most important thing that Huck learns from the Duke and the King?  Support your answer with text evidence.