Creating Together

Creating Together

In our daily lives, on our traveling path, we are always confronting obstacles and decisions that would affect the direction in which we are going. However, the ultimate end of a journey doesn’t only depend on us, it is also influenced by people we encounter. Two novels, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Animal Dreams, by Barbara Kingsolver, had successfully drawn the main character’s journey of life. Gatsby and Codi’s lifestyles are totally different throughout both novels, but their journeys are similar in a way that they both affected by other characters they encounter on the way.
Gatsby became very wealthy, but he began life as just an ordinary, lower-class, citizen. Even before Gatsby is introduced, it is hinted that he is out of the ordinary. The first evidence of this is when Nick says, “Gatsby turned out all right at the end” (GG 6). Nothing was known about Gatsby at the time and Nick is already saying Gatsby was okay. There’...