In both the books Great Gatsby and Divisadero, both authors Michael Ondaatje and F. Scott Fitzgerald tend to show a dramatic issue based on the film. Where they both show real life situations and what they try to do and what we would normally do if we were in their shoes. Fitzgerald shows the American dream that we all try to achieve throughout our lives. Gatsby tries to show off to Daisy with all the power and money he gets in the book, even though she is married, he doesn't stop. Then in the book Divisadero, the same only difference is that the orphan character, Cooper starts to have feelings for Anna. Just like in Gatsby's situations where he is stuck with Daisy. So, having said all that, both stories fall within the way they happened and the cynical order of time was more or less the same and taken around the same idea of place with almost the same amount of I'm sorry for both. In Divisadero, Anna has sex at the age of sixteen with Cooper and when Anna's father finds out he beats Cooper bloody. Furthermore, Cooper moves to Las Vegas and begins to become a gambler. The title of the book "Divisadero" comes from the street where Anna lives in San Francisco. Later, Cooper meets a girl named Bridget who is a drug addict at a hotel in Santa Maria, then gets beaten badly by three boys. Claire, Anna's sister, then saves Cooper but he doesn't know her but sees a resemblance to Anna. This is all said pretty much the same way it is in Gatsby. While at Gatsby's parties every weekend just so he can have a daisy in his life and as he shows he doesn't care and drinks, he drives and crashes within moments of leaving. I found it quite exciting that they both have some sort of connection that was like a live TV show running through my head as I read... in the middle of the newspaper... there are a few, and each applies to different main characters shown in the novel. I think the reason why the settings are so complex is clearly reflected in the title of the novel. The title Divisadero is also the name of the street where Anna lived at the beginning of the novel. The division not only refers to the location of her house, why her house is separated from the fields, and also why she is separated, or divided, from Cooper. All of these settings reflect the divisions and separations shown at the beginning of the novel and continue throughout the rest of the book. Although Anna and Cooper were separated due to geographic location, they are still connected in a way. Anna and Cooper's different settings show that although they may be physically separated from each other, they are still connected through Claire, Anna's sister..
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