F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Boys In The Boat
Wow! What can I say; I have read the book The Boys In The Boat, Nine Americans and Their Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, by Daniel James Brown. This is about a guy named Joe Rantz. He went through many obstacles, to name a couple, he saw his mother die in front of him at the age of three. Another is that he got abounded at a very young age. I have also watched a outstanding movie called The Great Gatsby. Which is takes place twenty miles east of New York. The movie and the book are very similar with the period of time, their relationships, and their dreams and or goals. Joe Rantz, it all started when his mother had died when he was three years old. After that his father Harry remarried, her name was Thula.
She and Joe did not …show more content…
He had to fend for himself, he had all kinds of jobs, one in peculiar is that he would fish; then sell what he had caught to people behind shops. Joe also sold booze that he had stolen, so that he would have enough money for the school year. When he was on the rowing team, the crew made it to the Olympics in Berlin. There couch, Al Ulbrickson was not too happy to find out that his team would be in lane six. With Hume being down he knew that they might not want to race. He wants to pull him out of the race. Hume ended up being strapped into the shell. While Hume was out of it and not responding to the calls, the coxmen was going to put Joe in for the strongest stork. Hume snapped out of it. Washington wins the race. George Pocock would build all of the shells. “My ambition has always been to be the greatest shell builder in the world; and without false modesty, I believe I have attained that goal…(Brown 83) As for Gatsby during this time, he went off to war, where he was promoted to Major Jay Gatsby. He were he uniform every day to prove he was not poor at the time, before he came into all the money. Gatsby all time goals were to get Daisy back into his life. And guess what. IT WORKED! As Tom was having the affair with Myrtle, Daisy was having an affair with Jay. Before Gatsby moved it took him three years to buy his enormous
She and Joe did not …show more content…
He had to fend for himself, he had all kinds of jobs, one in peculiar is that he would fish; then sell what he had caught to people behind shops. Joe also sold booze that he had stolen, so that he would have enough money for the school year. When he was on the rowing team, the crew made it to the Olympics in Berlin. There couch, Al Ulbrickson was not too happy to find out that his team would be in lane six. With Hume being down he knew that they might not want to race. He wants to pull him out of the race. Hume ended up being strapped into the shell. While Hume was out of it and not responding to the calls, the coxmen was going to put Joe in for the strongest stork. Hume snapped out of it. Washington wins the race. George Pocock would build all of the shells. “My ambition has always been to be the greatest shell builder in the world; and without false modesty, I believe I have attained that goal…(Brown 83) As for Gatsby during this time, he went off to war, where he was promoted to Major Jay Gatsby. He were he uniform every day to prove he was not poor at the time, before he came into all the money. Gatsby all time goals were to get Daisy back into his life. And guess what. IT WORKED! As Tom was having the affair with Myrtle, Daisy was having an affair with Jay. Before Gatsby moved it took him three years to buy his enormous