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Reflection:
====I wanted my peers to be able to imagine the observations made by the character of Nick Carraway through Facebook. I choose do create Facebooks for Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby because they are very different characters, maybe even foil characters. I used symbolism to on the Facebooks to represent them. For example: Gatsby's Facebook has an innumerable amount of friends and notifications (which means someone has sent him a message or a "poke"). However, Gatsby has never answered any of his friends comments. This symbolizes the fact that Mr. Gatsby was rarely spotted at his own parties and was very unknown. The only information about him was the gossip that fills up his page. Gatsby added a large amount of friends (held a lot of parties with a large amount of people) in order to find one thing. On the other hand, Tom's page is nicely balanced. As a prominent man, he has many friends and makes an attempt to stay in touch with them. Unlike Gatsby's page, Tom wrote his own little biography in the "About me" section and did not hide himself from society. Another symbol on my Facebook pages is the advertising. I wanted to find advertisements from the 1920s that resembled objects that Jay Gatsby or Tom Buchanan would be intrigued by. I enjoyed making my Facebook pages. I used screen shots and the paint program to make it my own. The Facebook genre was a great way to incorporate modern day culture with the beginning of Fitzgerald's novel.====

Resources:
====To build up my Facebook genre, I used and referenced chapters 1 - 4 in "The Great Gatsby." After re-reading the chapters, I saw more clearly the way that Nick Carraway observed his surroundings and soak everything in. It was almost as if he was perusing through Facebook pages to get a sense of what the east was like. Facebook is an internet network filled with people meeting new friends and catching up with old ones. When Nick moves to New York, he met Jay Gatsby and was catching up with the Buchanan's. In those first four chapters, Nick learned a lot of interesting things which happens often on Facebook. I wanted to use Facebook as a more modern way of gaining information and meeting friends. In these days, we never just walk over to our neighbors party; we have to be Facebook friends first.==== ====I also used: . I used this source to learn a little more about Gatsby's true upbringings and to rid myself of the tangled mysteriousness that Gatsby's life portrays in the novel.====