hello everybody and welcome back to another episode here from wiglett today we are moving into a level territory now starting with one of my all-time favorite books the great gatsby by scott fitzgerald and we're going to be looking at 10 quotes and key terms you need to know to help boost your understanding of the text itself but before we go any further i just wanted to say a massive thank you because we at quiglet reached 250 subscribers just recently so thank you from the bottom of my heart to everybody who has watched tuned in subscribed so as always give this video a thumbs up make sure to share it with all your friends and hit the bell icon to make sure you get the latest updates on all things books beards and beyond if you haven't already follow us across the social media platforms twitter instagram and tick tock where you'll find more of wiglet so today what can you do with this video as always take the notes take notes down or make sure you're taking your copy as well test yourself on these they're going to be a little bit different to the quotes you may expect and i've done that deliberately in addition just repeat repeat repeat repeat viewing will boost your understanding boost your confidence and your overall knowledge of the text itself so here's how it's going to go these are the rules for the following there are five key quotes plus five key terms i've paired them up so each slide will have a quote and a term with a definition and an example in addition to this the most obvious quotes i've avoided this time around i've tried to go for ones that people ordinarily wouldn't select i've tried to go for the ones i encourage students to really look for to help boost their understanding but also gives them a little edge in terms of performance to know those that kind of get avoided and ignored from time to time in addition the quotes range from beginning to end i've kind of got to about chapter three today so if this video does really well then we'll do a second one and put together the second half of the text in addition it's got a mixture of characters and themes that i'll cover as well usually the quotes are six to eight words long i recommend with any student i ever teach that they should be somewhere in that vicinity so let's begin our first quote of the day is the following it was an extraordinary gift for hope now you'll see that classic wiggle it color that sort of red currant color if there's words in that color they are deliberately selected and this quote comes from nick carraway our narrator regarding jay gatsby the very start of chapter one i felt this i found that this i found that this quote was really important for a number of different reasons firsthand it talks about this idea of hope that gatsby and his hope and desire to reunite with daisy buchanan uh this idea of hope is really intrinsic to everything that jay gatsby does but also this idea of being extraordinary taking that in its original etymology so they're extraordinary beyond the ordinary which kind of surmises everything that jay gatsby is about so i thought that's a really interesting quote and this is way before the character even physically appears in the text it's really important so the term is novella which is a noun it basically means a short novel if you can refer to f scott's fitzgerald's novella the great gatsby as opposed to the story or the text just that little tweak in your overall performance you get you're used to that word it will only help improve your performance so our second quote of the day comes a little further into the novella her eyes flashed around her in a defiant way rather like tom's this is nick carraway again refers in referring this time to daisy buchanan in chapter one notice there's a real fixation and a recurring image in the novella of eyes the eyes of t.j eckleburg um in this case daisy's eyes we talk about eyes being restless in the novella each character's eyes are kind of drawn upon and commented upon by nick this idea of being defiant this idea of maybe a spark of defiance in her there's teased throughout the novella until it's kind of climax and rather like toms this kind of comparison of daisy to tom shows that while they may dislike each other and have significant problems in their personal lives we actually see that there is something intrinsically similar about them that keeps them together throughout the entire text itself now in terms of the term term two is titular that is an adjective basically relates to or denoted by a title so the title of the novella is the great gatsby it gets its name from jay gatsby jay gatsby is the novella's titular character like title it comes from the same or origin of word there so the novella's titular character is jay gatsby a little tweak there another word it's kind of like a pair of shoes the more you wear them in you break them in the more you get used to it and you can just suffuse your work with that it can be really really important if you have any questions as well on gatsby the character gatsby text anything you see today leave it in a comment below and the quiglet promises that i will get back to every single comment i receive so midway now our third quote goes a little further into the novella and it is the following his tj eckelberg's eyes brewed on over the solemn dumping ground now this is the valley of ashes at the very start of chapter two you'll be familiar with the famous sign of t.j eckleburg oculus and its place in the valley of ashes which is kind of down down state new york which would now be modern queens i believe is the area of which it would take place but very dirt stricken impoverished area at the time eyes again being a recurring image here that they brewed it's kind of that atmosphere and tone is implicated there but the idea of it being a dumping ground where george wilson and myrtle two significant characters in the novella live this idea of the eyes brooding that something is is is ruminating and possibly starting to form there which ultimately becomes the climactic event in the entire novella takes place in the valley of ashes so that's an important one i would say to be mindful of third term is very similitude now taking it in its simplest form this noun basically means truth it comes from the idea of truth of veritas the idea of truth there from latin it's the appearance of being true or real so for example here i've given you another sentence as i've always done with every term nick carraway's narration offers verisimilitude to the events he recalls it gives us a sense of truth we we believe a lot of what we see and hear in nick because there's a sense of truth in the way he narrates it the long list of guests for example at gatsby's initial party in chapter three the quite unsettling descriptions of the party in chapter two for example there's element of truth he doesn't gloss over it's not a narration that well unless in certain exceptional parts has uh rose tinted glasses here uh while we there's a question on bias which will come up in a later video regarding nick we do get this sense that it's grounded in verisimilitude which is truth so the fourth quote for today is young men didn't drift coolly out of nowhere this is nick carraway referring to jay gatsby chapter three and this is just before he meets him face to face i think it's a really important point that gatsby doesn't actually physically materialize in the novel to a third of the way in chapter three of nine and this idea of him drifting cool is very much this this image conveyed by jay gatsby of the coolness the the calm almost being providing a distance as well the idea he drifts you know there's a kind of passivity to it where he's trying to kind of assimilate to the old money ways of the buchanans for example that kind of deliberately calm effortless aspect that is certainly not seen with the nouveau riche and the new money of the time now the fourth time i've given is pejorative this is can be used as a noun or an adjective and it simply means an insult for example tom buchanan on occasion uses pejoratives to mock gatsby's persona remember how he refers to the circus wagon that is gatsby's car as one such example it's a good little word to use there to maybe pepper into your responses or exam pieces and lastly our final quote for today is endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host this comes right at the end of chapter three where nick is describing gatsby at the culmination of their first meeting and i think it's really telling it's a quote that often goes over people's heads in its simplicity can be quite often ignored for example this idea of complete isolation gatsby truly is alone you know he has no family figures or or members of his family with him but also he's described as a figure almost that he's not human like he's the caricature of a human in the same way that gatsby's image and stereotype and personality is it's a projection we rarely get to the inherent truth of the character so i thought that was really nice quote to use this idea of complete isolation the idea of figure really reinforcing the loneliness and also the kind of facade that makes jay gatsby who he is our final term is zeitgeist it's german in origin and it means the defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history for example fitzgerald's novel can be perceived as an observation of the zeitgeist the trends the fashions of the time of the roaring twenties in this case and that's what essentially what zeitgeist means is the trends the spirit the mood the fashion and f scott fitzgerald in this novella is very much picking upon the zeitgeist of the time and a pre-wall street crash roaring twenties jazz age another really nice word that you can possibly use in your writing so that has been today's episode thank you very much for tuning in as always like share and subscribe follow gwiglit across all the different social media platforms that would be amazing leave a comment below if i can help at all and as always until next time take care all the very best