WT2 HL Topics

Dea

How and why is a social group represented in a particular way?

Nick as old money no money midwest class

how nick is old money with no money and how he talks about it throughout the whole book

Outline

• Fitzgeralds past and his relationship w wealth
• Nick’s characterisation
•  how nick’s money or lack thereof affects his relationships to people
• The whole i am within and without thing
• How fitzgerald uses language to represent nick
• How nick fits into the east vs west and rich people are different

Flavia



How could the text be read and interpreted differently by two different readers?

The different perspective: someone in favour of death penalty and someone against it, how the understanding of the text can differ.

charcterisation

Nature vs nurture and & empathy vs sympathy

Capote embedded (new Journalism



Anja

Which social groups are marginalized, excluded or silenced within the text?

Women, Daisy, and jordan

Paragraph 1: How general context affected the way F.Scott Fitzgerald shaped the female characters in the text. 

Paragraph 2: How the society affected women and helped shape their personalities analysed through the main characters: Daisy, Myrtle and Jordan. Women viewed as  porcelain dolls without any purpose or dream in life. How they were portrayed and the symbol of beauty in females. 

Paragraph 3: The traditional gender role. How men wanted to control women and their actions towards them seen in the text.

Elen

How and why is a social group represented in a particular way?

Tom and Daisy, so old money that eevn though they are outsiders they are immediately insiders

language

Fitz's background

charaterisation of tom and daisy

East vs West

Megi

How could the text be read and interpreted differently by two different readers?

importance

David

Brisila

How and why is a social group represented in a particular way?

Importance of Being

Upper class women

Setting

Language

Characterisation

Stiven

Question: How and why is a social group represented in a particular way?

Tittle: F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.

East Egg

Paragraph 1

East vs West

Paragraph 2

Characterisation

Paragraph 3

setting

Paragraph 4

language

Amina

Elio

Written Task 2

Question chosen for analysis: How and why is a social group presented in a particular way?

Text: Truman Capote, In cold blood

Part of the course to which the task refers: Part 3

Focus of the task:

I have came up with the question--- How has the environment which Dick and Perry grew up in played a role in them becoming murderers?

I could link this with my 2 favourite topics from In cold blood being- Nature vs Nurture, America vs America. 

I have chosen to discuss language, theme, new journalism and Capote’s background as my main 4 ideas to complete my WT2.

• As I explained above, for the theme part I would bring out Nature vs Nurture and America vs America.
• For the language part I would explain how Dick and Perry differentiate in their way of talking and how Capote influences it, how he makes Perry look a bit smarter than Dick---
• With this leading to the New journalism part of the text being that Capote adds up that subjective part to the journalism and showing that he does prefer Perry more than Dick, because of different reasons which were seen unnormal at the time being that they were both homosexuals, and that Capote sees himself in Perry
• And as I said in the point above Capote’s background would be the start of new journalism and his feelings for Perry.
• Characterization/Indirect

Borena

1. The question I choose is:

 Which social groups are marginalized, excluded, or silenced within the text? 

2. The text that I will focus on:

“Great Gatsby”

3. The title of the analysis:

How the proletarian class (George Wilson and Myrtle Wilson) in “The Great Gatsby” are marginalized in the text.

4. This takes part from :

Part 4 

• The three key ideas that I will focus on are:

1. Key Idea 1:  Commenting on the working class during 1922 in New York and how they were treated during this era

2. Key Idea 2:  Commenting based on the Marxist theory,  on how the socioeconomic class is a strong factor when it comes to dividing people for their working classes in the society

Key Idea 3: Demonstrating examples (quotes) from the text on how the characters of George Wilson and Myrtle Wilson are marginalized, excluded, or silenced within the text

Kejsi

Question 3; How and why is a social group represented in a particular way?

Topic; Why Jay Gatsby of F.Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”  could not be part of the old upper class society. 

1. How the portrayal of East vs West Egg is used to differentiate between the social classes.
1. The East egg is where all the people from the highest social classes enjoyed their lavish lifestyle, meanwhile the West egg is the less-fashionable part of the city. Fitzgerald uses imagery to show how different the two locations are from each other, but most importantly, how the location of a character reflected their  status and social class. Even though one would think he has all the money in the world, Gatsby still lives in the West Egg.
2. New Money vs Old Money.
1. New money stands for the people who have recently become rich and old money stands for the ones who are able to enjoy the luxury life as their families have had a string of inheritances passed on to them for generations.  In “The Great Gatsby”, Jay Gatsby represents New Money vs Jordan,Nick, Tom and Daisy represent old money. Gatsby is the only one that profits from a shady business and that sets him aside from the truly rich social class.
3. Jay Gatsby vs Tom Buchanan
1. In a rivalry between Jay Gatsby versus Tom Buchanan to win Daisy over,  Fitzgerald emphasizes how Gatsby’s status couldn’t come close compared to Toms’.  Gatsby came from nothing and made himself someone known and successful and he does the most to prove that in front of Daisy, however, that is still not nearly enough for her as after a string of eventful incidents, she continues to stick by Tom’s side.