I finished reading a book “The Great Gatsby”. This book is about the man named “Gatsby” in 1930s.
The main character of this book is Nick and he is the friend of his gentle neighbor Gatsby.
This book depicts the life of Gatsby and American society and dream in 1930s.
“Love”, “Money”, “Noble life”, “happiness” are the most important things for the people in that era.
– The movie captured people’s interest through its actor casting –
Gatsby is the man who is living after his dream. His dream is to love and be loved by “Daisy” who is his lover when he
was young. He hold parties every night to meet Daisy and make money with illegal way to go up toward her.
This book makes me think about the American society in 1930s. Also, the concept of empty, meaningless life come to my mind.
If you haven’t see this movie or book, please read the book first and then watch this movie. I could imagine all the colors and jazz sounds while I read the book. And when I see the movie, the visualization what I imagine made me surprise with their tremendous and gorgeous features.
– For the entertaining, I will not mention the rest of the story.
This story has given me a question that who and what value is right for me and society.
For me, money and being succeed is the most important value up to know. After watching this movie, my value has been
changed. I realized that real love, the emotion and direction that my heart wanted to say are the most important thing.
Also, in Korea being upper class in society and money is important. That’s why, this movie helps us to find out the point
where we should focus on.
Between the Dream and Reality, Let’s think about ourselves. 🙂
# Assignment 7
abedoyounglim 
Woah!!! Can’t believe that you also read this book? I really love this book and the movie too 🙂 After reading this, I do have the same question like you. I think nowadays people are dreaming too much that they almost forget about the reality. Dreaming is good, but just don’t let it be a dream forever. And I hope you can share more interesting novels to us ^^
Ye, I agree that dreaming is good but dreaming without reality is bad. I hope I can share other novels later on. Thank you for the comment. Do your best for your dream~!
Wow, Abe, it’s great that you read The Great Gatsby. I bet it was better than The Good Thief! I read the book long ago, but I haven’t seen the recent movie. You summarized the story, but the assignment included to tell what you did after you read the book and how it affected you. You mention it makes you think of values and what is right for you and society. But where did you go after reading this? Did reading the book make you notice things you might not otherwise have noticed? Did it affect your experience?
Oh I updated my post with writing how affect this movie to me and why it is important in Korean society. I little bit misunderstood about the assingnment topic. Thank you for the comment.
Good! I like what you added to the post, Abe. Yes, there are a lot of things more important than money and power and social hierarchy. I’m glad you recognize that. 🙂
THE GREAT GATSBY I want to see this movie , I just watched a little bit of trail . It seems you gave a high comment for this movie and it leaves you a deep thinking ,yes I will go to see it .keep moving ,if you still have some interesting movie or books just recommend to us ,thanks