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    This essay compares the themes of hope, treason, and friendship in the stories "12 Years a Slave" and "The Great Gatsby". In "12 Years a Slave", the main character has hope of regaining his freedom and family. Gatsby has hope of reuniting with his love through building wealth. Both stories portray betrayal, through Solomon being betrayed by those he trusted and characters in "The Great Gatsby" betraying their relationships. Strong bonds of friendship are shown between Solomon and Patsy during slavery, and between Gatsby and Nick. Despite differences, the stories effectively portray the same universal themes.

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    This essay compares the themes of hope, treason, and friendship in the stories "12 Years a Slave" and "The Great Gatsby". In "12 Years a Slave", the main character has hope of regaining his freedom and family. Gatsby has hope of reuniting with his love through building wealth. Both stories portray betrayal, through Solomon being betrayed by those he trusted and characters in "The Great Gatsby" betraying their relationships. Strong bonds of friendship are shown between Solomon and Patsy during slavery, and between Gatsby and Nick. Despite differences, the stories effectively portray the same universal themes.

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    This essay compares the themes of hope, treason, and friendship in the stories "12 Years a Slave" and "The Great Gatsby". In "12 Years a Slave", the main character has hope of regaining his freedom and family. Gatsby has hope of reuniting with his love through building wealth. Both stories portray betrayal, through Solomon being betrayed by those he trusted and characters in "The Great Gatsby" betraying their relationships. Strong bonds of friendship are shown between Solomon and Patsy during slavery, and between Gatsby and Nick. Despite differences, the stories effectively portray the same universal themes.

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    Comparison-Contrast essay: 12 Years a Slave and The Great Gatsby

    Undoubtedly, authors tend to portrait several aspects of real life through their
    plays in order to help readers feel recognized and identified. Subjects of
    everyday life as love, treason, friendship, or jealousy are included in the stories
    we are able to read everywhere. The purpose of this essay is to compare two
    very well know stories: 12 years a slave and The Great Gatsby. The tree
    main topics that will be taken into account in order to make the comparison are
    hope, treason and friendship.

    First of all, a remarkable subject that is present in both stories is the idea of
    hope. In 12 years a slave, hope is present in the main protagonists actions,
    full of faith and courage, with the only aim of recovering his freedom and
    family. On the other hand, we have The Great Gatsby vision of hope. Gatsby,
    full of expectations, builds a great fortune in order to get back the women he
    loves, taking the green light shining just next to her house (green color is used
    to symbolize hope in this story) as a motivation to go on with his enterprise

    Secondly, treason could be found as another significant idea of these literary


    pieces. Solomon, being dragged by the two men he had trusted in, full of
    desperation and deception, portrays the idea of betrayal en 12 Years a Slave.
    In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald decided to use women as the image of
    treason and disloyalty: Daisys treacheries to her husband, and even to Gatsby,
    or Myrtles unfaithfulness are good examples of it.

    Last but not least, strong and powerful the image of friendship appears. The
    close and strong relationship born between Solomon and Patsy during their
    cruel slavery in 12 years Slave could be certainly compared to the complicity
    and brotherhood got by Gatsby and Nick, Gatsbys best and only friend.

    To conclude, it is clear enough that themes as friendship, treason or hope could


    be found in both stories. Even though differences will be always found when
    the reader is dealing with two books as dissimilar as 12 years a slave and
    The Great Gatsby, it is clear that the same subjects could be perfectly
    portrayed at any time and context.

    Good job!

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