The Great Gatsby

From what I read, The Great Gatsby is about a distopian society, where freedom and privacy is very nearly nonexistent. It sounds rather interesting, and it reminds me of the book Fahrenheit 451, which I also liked. Because of this, I would assume a large number of people will complain about it. It seemed like very few people in my class last year liked Fahrenheit 451, so if it really is similar, then I don't think it will be very popular with most of the class.

But that's just a guess. It could very well be a favorite of the class. I don't really know. Either way, we'll have to read it to find out.

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I think the most interesting part of the research would be the Prohibition movement, mainly because it was an odd period of time. A time where crime and the like was running rampant; lawlessness was in control. It kind of saddens me to know that people would fall to that because of alcohol, especially such a majority of the population. I don't understand why people like alcohol that much; to go that far to retain something so destructive to one's life. It doesn't make sense to me at all. It never did, and it never will. Hopefully, it won't come to anything else like that ever.

I wonder what it would have been like to live during that time. I wonder how much pressure they got from peers to drink alcohol, even though the law forbade it. How did the police and government let it get so bad? So bad, in fact, that the police were corrupt themselves, often times. It really is a sad time to imagine. But we learn from our mistakes, so maybe it was good to make it back then, when the technology wasn't as advanced, and people couldn't have gone to more extreme measures to re-obtain their rights to alcohol.

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