Global Issues Presentation Organizer
Semester 2 - BOW to extract
Submission of this planner 1 week before your global issues presentation is MANDATORY. If you do not submit the planner
on time you will lose 5 marks off your final GI presentation score.
Using bullet points, fill in the following organizer for your Global Issues presentation. Please submit it to your teacher 1 week before
your presentation for feedback.
Literary text Provide the title and hyperlink your chosen text if it is
not one we have studied in class. Please include a hyperlink g.doc
with extract (max 40 lines)
Non-Literary text Provide the title and hyperlink your chosen text
if it is not one we have studied in class. Please include a hyperlink
g.doc with extract (max 40 lines if written texts, 4 screenshots with
dialogue or lyrics for film/music videos, ad or poster)
1) A brief outline of your G.I (2)
- What is it? Why is it important to discuss?
Thesis statement/ G.I statement
Your G.I and how it is represented in your two texts. (this should be
more broad than specific hows - consider how each text approaches
the GI)
Text 1 BOW - Thesis
“The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzerald
“The Wolf of Wall Street” (2013) by Martin Scorcese.
Wolf Of Wall Street extract/quotes/screenshots
My global issue is the way the american dream creates issues in society around
materialism and generating a fake correlation between wealth and happiness. This issue
is extremely important to talk about as the overwhelming pressure from developed and
non developed countries on society about wealth being “the key to success' ' when in
reality “working hard' ' is not all it takes in today’s world to become rich and happy as
everyone is born unequal.
“The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzerald and “The Wolf Of Wall Street” by Martin
Scorcese both emphasize the harmful effect of The American Dream on society by
portraying the materialism and superficiality it creates and affect the characters in the
story.
Although both works approach the American Dream in totally different ways as “The
Great Gatsby” uses implicit symbols and other allusions to refer to this theme, while “The
Wolf Of Wall Street” explicitly portrays a more modern image of The American Dream
with explicit dialogues and allusions.
“The Wolf Of Wall Street” is a Dramatic and Biographic movie that explores the
American Dream and its effect on different characters who deliberately try to make as
This thesis should be a broad statement about how the GI is
represented in the BOW as a whole.
A brief overview of the BOW with focus on how the G.I is illustrated
in the BOW as a whole.
much money as possible. Their main morality is directly coming from the American
Dream’s theory that “everyone has equal chances of becoming wealthy by working hard
to solve all of their problems.” The movie includes several extracts explicitly emphasizing
the American Dream and the way society completely revolves it around with different
inspirational speech and symbols to help emphasize the reliance of society on
materialism.

Text 1 - BOW (2-2.5) Example 1

- Provide 2 examples from the BOW P: Foreshadowing
- Analyse the use of 1 stylistic feature in each example and E:
how it represents the Global Issue

A: In this scene, Matthew Conaughey meets Jordan Belfort for the first time. He is
presented as an overconfident, dominant, wealthy and quite vulgar man. The viewer can
later see that this scene was foreshadowing what Belfort will soon turn out to become by
even having the same suit and reproducing the same gestures. This foreshadowing was
carefully made by Scorcese in order to emphasize that the American Dream creates
“clones” of wealthy people with the exact same personality. These mens are not able to
think for themselves and simply follow the values of the American Dream without
thinking as society’s pressure to become successful is too overwhelming.

Example 2
P: Setting
E:

Transition to extract
Thesis for your extract
Mini thesis for your extract with specific focus on “hows”
This should follow the familiar structure of a thesis statement that
you have already used this year :
“In my extract {what the extract is}, [GLOBAL ISSUE] is illustrated
through the use of [HOW], [HOW], and [HOW].”
Text 1 - Extract (2- 2.5)
Extract Analysis - An analysis of how your chosen text
illustrates the global issue you have chosen.
A brief but detailed discussion of how the extract you have chosen
illustrates your G.I. This should include detailed examples. LIne
number or screenshot number should be included.
In this section of your presentation, you should be discussing the
ways in which authorial choices present the global issue. You
should aim to highlight 3 authorial choices and how they represent
your G.I
A: In this extract, Jordan Belfort and his coworkers are hosting a party in a huge house
in front of the beach with dozens of guests. The party is super crowded with people in
elegant clothing in a gigantic house with a huge pool showing the over consumption and
attention to materialism of Belfort and his colleagues. This extract shows that the
“american dream” enforces its followers into wanting to show off to other people by
having luxurious and gigantic things which creates a stereotypical image associated with
wealth.
During Jordan Belfort’s inspirational speech, the American dream and its effects on
society are being explored through the use of monologue, symbolism and wardrobe.
P: Monologue
E:
- “That person is gonna pull up right alongside you, in a brand new Porsche, with
a beautiful wife by their side who’s got big voluptuous tits.”
- “I want you to deal with your problems by becoming rich”
- “There is no nobility in poverty. I have been a rich and I have been a poor man
and I choose rich every f**** time. Because at least as rich man when I get to
face my problems I show up in the back of a limo, wearing a 2,000 dollars and
40,000 dollar gold f***** watch.”
A: During this inspirational speech, Jordan Belfort motivates his employees by teaching
them the values of the American Dream and its ideal image. Belfort directly associates
happiness with wealthiness by creating generalized ideas around how men should make

Include some bullet points on the PEA analyses you will discuss in
your presentation. These should explore the “HOW's and WHAT's of
your thesis.
the money and have a specific life consisting of a wife “with voluptuous tits” and driving a
“brand new porsche.” He creates a focal point around the idea of wealth as the ultimate
life goal for a person that will solve their problems. This speech is also purposefully a
monologue as it emphasizes how the working class (Belfort’s employees) are not worth
sharing their opinions and should only listen to a successful entrepreneur like him.
P: Symbolism
E:
A: In this passage, Belfort throws a gold watch in the crowd, which all of the employees
fight for. The scene concludes by one of the workers catching the watch and the rest of
the employees start fighting him. While Belfort’s speech was quite explicit about the idea
of “the american dream”, this passage shows the effect of the speech and the values it
was communicating by symbolizing the gold watch as the idea of wealth and success for
the working class, represented by Belfort’s employees, which is represented as a
tangible object (the watch) to suggest materialization. The crowd then starts to fight the
man holding the watch in a chaotic mess that almost seems animal. This is done to
show that humans completely lose their reasons when it comes to money and wealth as
it was forced into them as the ultimate problem solver.
P: Wardrobe
E:
A: In this scene, the wardrobe chosen for the characters is mostly business shirts and

Transition to Text 2
Text 2 BOW - Thesis
This thesis should be a broad statement about how the GI is
represented in the BOW as a whole.
A brief overview of the BOW with focus on how the G.I is illustrated
in the BOW as a whole.
Text 2 - BOW (2-2.5)
- Provide 2 examples from the BOW
- Analyze the use of 1 stylistic feature in each example and
how it represents the Global Issue
classic ties which are often associated with the working class stereotype in the United
states. Jordan Belfort is a big focal point of this scene as he is wearing a luxurious suit
and a gold watch, making him stand out from the rest of the characters. This scene is
used by Scorcese to once again represent American Dream’s impact as Jordan Belfort,
being richer than the side characters in the room, is getting more attention and stands
out more suggesting that people need to work hard and be successful in order to get
attention and be different from everyone else.
The second analyzed in this presentation is “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzerald
who holds a significant attention to the American dream and particularly on its main
character, Gatsby.
The Great Gatsby continually refers back to the American dream as being the way for
Gatsby to make his love for Daisy possible, which is developed throughout the novel.
There are also significant social class barriers around unfair treatment depending on
wealth and class, suggesting that Gatsby was almost forced to become rich in order to
feel valued the way he is in the story.
Example 1
P: Setting
E: “the one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard — it was a factual imitation
of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin
beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and
garden. it was Gatsby’s mansion.” (p.)
A: In this extract, the book’s narrator Nick Carraway uses a specific vocabulary to
describe Gatsby’s mansion as “colossal”; “40 acres of lawn”; “marble pool”. The use of
distance units and luxuries such as marble help emphasize how extravagant and
luxurious the house is to suggest how millionaires already want to show off their goddy
house in a post war time period where consumption was not as significant as today.
Furthermore, Nick gives attention to the fact that the house is a replication of “some
hotel de ville in Normandy” that's “spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy.” These
quotes help showing that Gatsby is trying to show off an image of “old money” and
“generational wealth” in his house by replicating a luxurious french hotel and adding a
beard of ivy, which would make the house look older and therefore emphasize
generational wealth, to associate his image to something he isn’t. This extract therefore
shows that, in pursuit of money and success, society always pay extra attention to the
looks of people on themselves by materializing their wealth in goods that do not reflect
just to fit in that image of “old money” elegance.

Transition to extract
Thesis for your extract
Mini thesis for your extract with specific focus on “hows”
This should follow the familiar structure of a thesis statement that
you have already used this year :
“In my extract {what the extract is}, [GLOBAL ISSUE] is illustrated
through the use of [HOW], [HOW], and [HOW].”
Text 2 - Extract (2- 2.5)
Extract Analysis - An analysis of how your chosen text
illustrates the global issue you have chosen.
A brief but detailed discussion of how the extract you have chosen
illustrates your G.I. This should include detailed examples. LIne
number or screenshot number should be included.
In this section of your presentation, you should be discussing the
ways in which authorial choices present the global issue. You
should aim to highlight 3 authorial choices and how they represent
Example 2
P: Symbolism
E:”-You always have a green light on your dock. [said Gatsby] Daisy put her arm through
his abruptly, but he seemed absorbed in what he had just said. Possibly it had occurred
to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. Compared to
the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to her,
almost touching her. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was again a
green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.” (p.93)
A: In this extract, Gatsby finally meets again with Daisy and, the light on Daisy’s dock
which was until now the tiny hope he had of seeing her again, was now just a regular
light which does not represent anymore all the hope and desire of Gatsby. This passage
is a form of desillusion from the American Dream as he is now brought back into the
reality of things and due to the importance materialism has to him, he feel lonely to have
lost something of value.
In The Great Gatsby’s final scene, the American Dream’s negative effect on individuals
is shown through the use of metaphor, setting and allusion.
P:Metaphor
E:“So we beat on, boat against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
(p.180)
A:This quote is the closing sentence of the book where Nick is admiring the sea from
Gatsby’s beach making a metaphor between the explorers who discovered America a
few centuries ago and Gatsby’s dream of meeting Daisy again. The boats against the
current make an allusion to Gatsby and the obstacles between him and Daisy, being
money and Tom Buchanan, but as he “beat on” and works hard to become extremely
wealthy, he seems to have a chance with Daisy despise his past pushing him back as he
used to be poor and has made his money unethically. This quote well wraps up the
protagonist’s fight against social class barriers by following the American dream
your G.I
Include some bullet points on the PEA analyses you will discuss in
your presentation. These should explore the “HOW's and WHAT's of
your thesis.
relentlessly. However, in the end, despite Gatsby’s ideal image of the American dream
solving all his problems, he keeps on being held back by his past as a working class
individual and the pressure on society to give off an image of “old money” with high
status. His hope to be with Daisy forever through materialism ends up leading to his own
downfall as he dies alone with no one by his side.
P: Setting
E: “Gatsby’s house was still empty when I left- the grass on his lawn had grown as long
as mine” (p.179); “I went over and looked at that huge incoherent failure of a house once
more.” (p.179)
A: Since the story is told by Nick Carraway, he shapes by himself the view of the world
around him with his own eyes and especially the setting of the story. In this passage, the
house that Nick was until now described as a sumptuous mansion along West Egg’s
beach was now an abandoned place and a “huge incoherent failure of a house” where
“the grass on his lawn had grown as long as [Nick’s].” As the story unfolds, we learn that
Gatsby has worked so hard and built his house to impress Daisy, almost as a form of
symbol of love for her. But after his death and his love for Daisy is now gone, the
mansion is now completely devastated and only becomes a gigantic mess, the use of
the world failure further enforces that theory to emphasize how Gatsby's ideal image of
impressing Daisy through materialism had gone completely wrong.

P: Allusion
E: “gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors;
eyes a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made
way for Gatsby’s house [...] man must have held his breath in the contemplation he
neither understood nor desired [...] with something commensurate to his capacity of
wonder.”
A: In this extract, Nick makes an allusion to the dutch sailors stepping on American
lands, which can also be interpreted as a metaphor to Gatsby’s love for Daisy. This
quote has a significant importance in the text, the “vanished trees” are used to show the
way the American dream and the materialism it causes affects society overall and
destroys everything on its way. There is also an important contrast between the past and
the future where the explorers contemplate these lands without trying to change it in any
way whereas Gatsby would do anything to impress Daisy by creating a completely new
personna of “Jay Gatsby” and getting involved in criminal activities to make money. This
extract therefore shows the way the american dream affects individuals which then have
an effect on society.

Conclusion (1) To conclude, both The Great Gatsby and The Wolf Of Wall Street hold value to the affect
Your conclusion should sum up your points and discuss why the G.I
relevant and important to discuss. It should also clearly discuss how
the representation of the G.I in these two texst is similar or different
and how the presentation may affect our understanding of the G.I.
of the American dream on society. While Scorcese uses more explicit techniques in the
luxury wardrobes of the characters, their dialogues and its important symbolism,
Fitzgerald tends to use more implicit ways to suggest the reader the way the American
dream shapes the protagonist of the story, Gatsby, and how every characters around
him act as a catalyst into the perpetuation of the american dream. Fitzgerald therefore
lets the reader interpret the story by himself as the symbols can be seen in different
manners, such as the novel’s closing sentence. The American Dream is essential to talk
about since, as proven in those 2 stories, it tends to create a fake image of success
around a materialistic and extravagant life which inevitably ends up in the downfall of the
protagonist as life does not rely simply on money and success. In the Great Gatsby, the
reader may see the american dream as a form of escape from social class’s struggles
and a desperate attempt in seeking love again, whereas The Wolf of wall street has a
more simple image of a pathetic materialistic dream, which nonetheless ends up badly
despise the completely different time setting of the 2 stories.