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Extension Activity: Compare and contrast text and film. Read these film reviews and write responses in your Writer's Notebook. To what extent to you agree or disagree with these critics? Cite evidence from both the literary text as well as the film.
- Does Baz Luhrman do The Great Gatsby justice? Is it an effective film? Baz Luhrman's remake of The Great Gatsby http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/may/14/great-gatsby-review-cannes "Why the Critics Are Wrong": http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/jane-graham/the-great-gatsby-critics-are-wrong_b_3280624.html
- Did Holden exist? Is Catcher in the Rye a novel, or is it an autobiography? See Ron Rosenbaum's article "He's Not Holden! The one big mistake people make about Salinger and Catcher in the Rye," Slate.com http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/the_spectator/2013/09/interpreting_catcher_in_the_rye_the_one_big_mistake_people_make.html