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Huckleberry Finn

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Narrator and main character of the novel "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"

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Mildred Montag

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Guy Montag's brittle, sickly looking wife. She is obsessed with watching television and refuses to engage in frank conversation with her husband about their marriage or her feelings. Her suicide attempt, which she refuses even to acknowledge, clearly indicates that she harbors a great deal of pain.

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Gobbledygook

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language that is meaningless or is made unintelligible by excessive use of abstruse technical terms; nonsense.

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The Great Gatsby

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A novel depicting the picturesque idea of the self made American man and entrepreneur who rose from obscurity. was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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The American Dream

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An American ideal of a happy, successful life, which often includes wealth, a house, a better life for one's children, and love.

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Feminist Lens

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The analysis of women's rights through a text or piece of literature.

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The American Literary Canon

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A body of books, narratives and other texts considered to be the most important and influential of America.

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Utopia

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An ideal society

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Daisy Buchanan

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Nick's cousin; the woman Gatsby loves.

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Jay Gatsby

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"Can't repeat the past? Why, of course you can."

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Fahrenheit 451

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is a 1953 dystopian novel that presents a future American society where books are outlawed and firemen burn any house that contains them.

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Prohibition (18th amendment)

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(18th Amendment) illegal to manufacture, distribute, or possess any type of alcoholic beverage (distilled spirits). The Noble Experiment. Opened the door for organized crime (Al Capone), bootleggers and smuggling.

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New Money

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Recently acquired wealth through own efforts.

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The Roaring 20's

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A time of booming business, lots of new entertainment like Jazz Age music, and new technologies.

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Myrtle Wilson

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Tom Buchanan's lover

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Mark Twain

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The writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910); used "realistic fiction".

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Syntax

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The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.

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James Gatz

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Jay Gatsby's real name

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Dystopia

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An imaginary place where living conditions are dreadful

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Yellow

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The main color used throughout "The Great Gatsby"

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Author of Fahrenheit 451

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Ray Bradbury

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The Jazz Age

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Term used to describe the image of the liberated, urbanized 1920s, with a flapper as a dominant symbol of that era. Many rural, fundamentalist Americans deeply resented the changes in American culture that occurred in the "Roaring 20s."

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Racism

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The belief that one race is superior to another

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Old Money

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The inherited wealth of established upper-class families.

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Guy Montag

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A third-generation fireman who suddenly realizes the emptiness of his life and starts to search for meaning in the books he is supposed to be burning.

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