I came to understand that in the united states, the land of the fabled American dream, it is un-American to be a refugee

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1. ” I came to understand that in the united states, the land of the fabled American dream, it is un-American to be a refugee.” What does the refugee author Viet Thanh Nguyen mean by this?

2. In the house on mango street, author Sandra Cisneros writes, ” stories are about beauty that is there to be admired by everyone. ” this illustrates the theme of escaping your economic class. Compare this to the theme of class permanence in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. 

3. In gatsby, Jay Gatsby has an unrealistic view of daisy. What would have happened to the plot and theme of gatsby if gatsby had not obsessed with his romantic view of daisy? If they had a normal relationship early on? 

4. Nick Carraway says, ” I was within and without….” Discuss what nick, as the first-person narrator and voyeur, means by being both within and without the action in gatsby.

5. Nick Carraway says, ” I was….. simultaneously enchanted and repelled…” What enchants him? what repels him?  He can be both enchanted and repelled at the same time? 

6. Nick has been invited by gatsby to his many parties. But most partygoers have not been invited; they just showed up. What is Nick’s significance for being invited to Gatsby’s parties? Also, what would have happened to the plot if nick had not attended these parties? 

7. Nick warns gatsby that you can’t relieve the past, and gatsby says that you can relive the past. Explain why it is correct– considering Nick’s character and significance in the novel– that he would think you cannot relive the past. And why it is correct — considering Gatsby’s character and significance– that he would have the opposite view, that you can relive the past. 

8. ” Our white girlhood was passed together there, ” daisy says, referring to the fact that she and Jordan grew up in segregated Louisville, Kentucky. How is daisy’s racism different from tom’s racism, expressed in his fear that black people will replace white people? 

9. The Elements of fiction author Walter Mosely says, “the novel is not all fury and lust. There are ideas and concepts, too. Give one example of fury, one of lust, and one of the ideas in gatsby.