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Symbols of Betrayal
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Symbols of Betrayal
Thesis Statement
While Fitzgerald uses betrayal as a theme to illustrate how lovers can quickly fall apart and end bitter, Hass uses symbols to reveal something that seems sweet and nice can really be dead and cruel.
Deana Hebenstriet
Symbol & Theme relate
Both authors are trying to get the same point across overall just do it different ways. Hass decides to use symbols and Fitzgerald uses a common theme throughout his book!
Summary of the texts
Symbols in A Story About the Body
Hass uses symbols to reveal something can appear to be sweet but end up dead and bitter.
"It looked to be full of rose petals, but he found when he picked it up that the rose petals were on top; the rest of the bowl -- she must have wept the corners of her studio -- was full of dead bees.
A Story About the Body
Robert Hass
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A composer at camp falls in love with an older Japanese woman. He walks her home one night and he finds that she has had a major surgery and decides to flee. The next morning she left him a gift he could never forget.
Former army man finds his long lost lover, throws elegant parties in hopes she will notice him. They get together, have obvious affairs and then she kills someone and he is murdered.
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Theme in The Great Gatsby
Determine a time you have been hurt/betrayed. Were there any obvious signs of pain? Did you know it was coming? Who was it? What did you think afterward?
Fitzgerald uses theme to reveal love can be everything to the couple but in in other peoples eyes its watching two people hate each other and end how the lover would have never guess, but the audience knew.
"No telephone message arrived..." (139)
SO WHAT???
Although the stories are different and use different methods, the moral of both stories are similar. Hass uses symbols and Fitzgerald uses a theme through out the book. They both show betrayal of loved ones.
Synthesizing the texts
Fitzgerald quote shows that Gatsby kept waiting and waiting for his lover to call and she never did betraying him, and disappearing. connecting to his constant theme.
Hass's quote shows that after betrayal there is hatred and death of some sort.