Year 12 Easter Revision – The Great Gatsby



Year 12 Easter Tasks – The Great Gatsby

Your exam is on May 16th

Over the Easter holidays you will need to:

• Re – read The Great Gatsby (you could watch the film as well!)

• Complete chapter summary sheets for each chapter, focusing on questions i and ii

• Complete mindmaps of themes in the novel, including chapter references and key quotes

• Annotate your text so that it is ready to take into the exam – remember not to have too much detail, really just underlinings or highlightings and words, not full sentences

• Do further research into the context, making links with key areas of the novel

• Learn your most versatile critical quotes and develop your own responses to them (you must evaluate them)

• Choose two of the following essay questions and write them in timed conditions (1 hour)

• Write detailed plans for the rest of the questions.

Remember, the first section of the exam is JUST ABOUT GATSBY.

You will have to answer two questions in one hour.

1. one on the narrative style – or story-telling devices (generally based on one chapter)

2. one on the overall context and themes in the novel.

Sample Questions

Look again at Chapter One. Then answer the questions.

i) How does Fitzgerald tell the story in this chapter?

ii) “Carraway is blind to the significance of the events he describes”. Write about Nick’s role as narrator in the whole of ‘The Great Gatsby’.

Look again at Chapter Two. Then answer the questions.

i) Write about the ways Fitzgerald tells the story in this chapter.

ii) “Obsession with money and the consumer culture of the 1920s dominates human thinking and behaviour in The Great Gatsby”. What do you think of this view?

Look again at Chapter Three. Then answer the questions.

i) Write about the ways Fitzgerald tells the story in this chapter.

ii) “Gatsby’s world is more enchanting than corrupt”. What do you think?

Look again at Chapter Four. Then respond to the tasks.

i) How does Fitzgerald tell the story in this chapter?

ii) “Then wear the gold hat .... I must have you!” What meanings for the novel as a whole can be found in the quotation from the epigraph at the beginning of the novel?

Look again at Chapter 5. Then answer the questions.

i) Write about the ways Fitzgerald tells the story in this chapter.

ii) “What one remembers most about the novel are the powerful visual symbols.” How do you respond to this view?

Look again at Chapter 6. Then answer the questions.

i) How does Fitzgerald tell the story in this chapter?

ii) “Nick is the middle man, seen between two exaggeratedly opposed value systems and he tries to steer a path somewhere between them”. Respond to this quote with reference to the whole of the novel.

Look again at Chapter 7. Then answer the questions.

i) Write about the ways in which Fitzgerald tells the story in this chapter.

ii) “Such an extreme degree of romantic idealism by its very nature cannot fail to end in disillusionment and defeat”. Write about Fitzgerald’s views regarding the futility of Gatsby’s dream and the reality of the American Dream in 1920s America.

Look again at Chapter 8. Then answer the questions.

i) How does Fitzgerald tell the story in this chapter?

ii) “Gatsby is not created so much as a real person but as a mythical one”. To what extent is this true?

Look again at Chapter 9. Then answer the questions.

i) Write about the ways in which Fitzgerald tells the story in this chapter.

ii) “The imagery which is associated with the Buchanans also expresses a moral judgement”. What do you think of this?”

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