Choose a novel which explores, in an effective way, a theme which is important to you.
             Explain how the novelist introduces and develops the theme and show to what extent he or she has effectively engaged your interest in it. In your answer you must refer closely to the text and to at least two of: theme, structure, setting, symbolism or any other appropriate feature.
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             In F. Scott Fitzgerald's engaging novel "The Great Gatsby", the author effectively uses imagery and symbolism to portray his main theme of dreams, and the positive and negative effects the can have. Fitzgerald uses the narrator, Nick Carraway, to introduce the main character, the very wealthy Jay Gatsby, and it is Nick's perceptive ability as well as his non-judgemental outlook that allows the reader to fully understand Gatsby. It is Gatsby's dream of winning back a previous lover, Nick's cousin Daisy, that Fitzgerald develops throughout the novel and cleverly engages the reader's interest to show how the power of Gatsby's dream can not only give the reader reason to admire Gatsby but also brings out undesirable aspects to his personality and his life.
             From early in the novel the reader is intrigued as to how Gatsby will develop when Nick comments that "Gatsby turned out alright in the end; it is...what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in...men". This comment engages the reader's interest because Nick only says Gatsby was alright "in the end", suggesting that Gatsby had many flaws which Nick became aware of throughout the novel. The reference to Gatsby's dream and the "foul dust" that follows it, generates interest because of the ambiguity of the statement. Initially Nick meets Gatsby when he moves to New York in an attempt to make some money in the "roaring twenties", an...