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This Side of Paradise by: Scott Fitzgerald
Self Knowledge
This side of paradise is a love story, and a war story. It is a coming of age novel through a rite of passage, and the mission is to find yourself. It is a social portrait, historical novel, political novel, and a novel of ideas. This novel is split into two books referred to as “Book 1” and “Book 2” with and interlude in-between. The main themes in this book are egotism and generational conflict. This Side of Paradise is told in 3rd person, by a narrator who is telling Amory Blaine’s story. In the beginning you learn that Amory is an outstanding individual, the way he was brought up and by the way he acts leads us to believe that Amory is on the path to self-discovery, and like many of us, he too makes mistakes and becomes distracted from this path by conformity and by romantic involvement with women.
As this story starts Amory is under the influence of his unconventional mother, Beatrice, and because of......

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