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I recently finished reading The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and I will analyze the American Dream in The Great Gatsby and how it plays a role in the plot. The Great Gatsby takes place during the Roaring Twenties and is set in the fictional neighborhoods of West Egg and East Egg in Long Island, New York. The narrator of the novel is Nick Carraway, a man from Minnesota who studied at Yale, served in the military for a while during the war, and who has recently moved to New York to get into the bond business. He is the cousin of Daisy Buchanan, who is the wife of Tom Buchanan, the main antagonist of the book. Nick serves as a rational thinker in the book, in a way reflecting the reader's thoughts and disgust to the shallowness of the events and characters in the story. The book follows the events that happen that summer. Nick moves into the house next to the mansion of Jay Gatsby, a mysterious young man who has made a fortune through illegal activities after the war. Gatsby

I recently finished Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25 , and it was a very good experience. The book is told from the perspective of 14-year-old Michael Vey, a loner with a best friend named Ostin Lee. However, he is hiding a secret: he has electric powers, that allow him to send electric pulses through touch, basically like an eel. He is bullied in school, and one day he accidentally reveals his powers while defending himself. He soon finds out that his crush, Taylor, also has similar powers. Shortly after they all meet, his mother is kidnapped. Ostin, Michael, and Taylor set off for the West Coast looking for her. When they reach there, they meet other people like them. I won't say any more than this for fear of spoiling the novel, but you should definitely check this one out. The author, Richard Paul Evans, does an excellent job making a relatively cliche situation into one that can bring the reader in. What I mean by this is that the starting premise of the book is a 14-yea