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The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button



About the author
 * F. Scott Fitzgerald **
 * Ethnicity: Irish **
 * nationality: American **
 * F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in st. Paul, minnesota, in 1896, attended princeton university, and published his first novel This side of paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre. Fitzgerald was a major new literary voice, and his masterpieces include The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby and Tender Is The Night. He died of a heart attack in 1940 at the age of forty-four while working on the Love of the Last Tycoon. **

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Setting =


 * The setting of the book is in maryland, in 1860 to 1930 **
 * one year after his birth the civil war started ( civil war started 1861) and the world was changing as well as political views. **

Narrated The book is narrated in first person

Summary of the book ** He goes to the spanish and american war and when he comes back he is the same age as his son. **
 * The Book starts off with a nameless person ready to tell you a story. his story starts in the summer of 1860 with Thomas Button driving to the hospital getting ready to meet his son for the first time but once he gets there he finds out that his “baby” is a 70 year old man. **
 * It turns out that Benjamin Button ages in reverse and not the way that normal humans age. He was born at the age of 70 and ages in the same rate as people who get older but instead of getting older he gets younger. His father is embarrassed of his abnormal child so he forces him to act like a baby even though he thinks like an older man and looks like one too. **
 * when Benjamin Button turns 50 he falls in love with a girl named Hildegarde Moncrief, she was young but attracted to older men so it worked out perfectly. They got married and had a kid named Roscoe, but as time moved forward she got older and he got younger so he lost interest in her very quickly. **

Round and Flat Characters
 * ** Thomas Button is a round character because at first he gives up his son to strangers and leaves him without taking any responsibilities but after he comes back and gives him his job to own and his house. making him a round character because he changed **
 * ** Benjamin Button is a round character because he changes throughout the book, not just physically but mentally too. **
 * ** Roger Button is a round character because at first he doesn't like the idea of having a dad the same age as he is but at the end he takes his dad as a son because he was getting old and his dad was getting younger. **
 * ** HIldegarde is Benjamins wife, she is a flat character because she doesn't change her point of view and ends up splitting up with Benjamin because she doesn't date guys who are 30 or 25. She thinks that they are too young. she likes to date men that are 50 because that the “right age” **

Themes of the Book
 * ** society and class- This story has a lot to do with society and class because the father was scared of what the people would think of his 70 year old baby, thats one of the reasons why he left him. **
 * ** Family and kindness- we tend to think that family will support you no matter what, but not in the case of benjamin button because he is different and his parents have trouble accepting it. As well as his son and his wife. But towards the end they still show him support because thats what families do for one another **
 * ** appreciating your age- this book makes you realize that you go through a lot because of your age and the way you think. We as teens tend to leave everything for later but it shouldn't be that way because once you get older your age and your way of thinking won't be the same. So if you want to do something you should do it as soon as you can **

Inference and Analysis This book is about accepting someone for who they are. We shouldn't be scared of things that are different than us, or things that are new. We should keep an open mind and never judge someone by appearances but by who they truly are and their actions.

Quotes


 * “I shall tell you what occurred, and let you judge for yourself.” page one- he doesn't try to influence your judgment hes just telling you a story from his point of view **


 * “It's a funny thing about comin' home. Looks the same, smells the same, feels the same. You'll realize what's changed is you.” Benjamin Button” page 48. I like this quote because objects never change but your point of view always does. **


 * “We were meant to lose people. How else would we know how important they are?”- I like this quote because we take a lot of things for granted and we don't know until we lose them. **


 * “You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.”- I like this quote because no matter how much you look back at your mistakes you can't do anything about them. you just have to learn to let them go **

Literary terms
 * Irony: A baby was born at the age of 70. **


 * Metaphors: The cover of the book has a clock that stands for time and age. **


 * Point of view: the story is told in the first point of view **

Conflict
 * person vs society- Benjamin Button worries about what people will think of him. **
 * Person vs family- the father leaves benjamin Button **
 * Person vs self- He has to accept the fact that he is different. **

Connection
 * this book connect with a lot of things that happen in real life, for example talking bad about someone, lowering their self confidence or making someone feel bad for something they can't control. **

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