Post 5
Seth Gerus
For this week's post, I will talk about the theme for The Wolf of Wallstreet. ( by the way I am running out of ideas so feel free to leave some in the comments.) There are several possible themes that you could find throughout the book, but I'm going with 2 to keep this short.
The first theme that I found that is with great power comes great responsibility. It is extremely cliché, but it works with this book. Throughout the Wolf of Wallstreet, Jordan Belfort ( the main character who has tons of problems) does drugs, illegally launders money, cheats the stock system, and gets arrested like 6 times! ( He never gets charged though ... except for when he gets arrested by the FBI and goes to jail.)
The second theme that I found is that drug use can destroy your life. Belfort's business, Stratton-Oakmont, is totally legal and does nothing wrong until his drug use starts up to ease the pain of a back injury. Throughout the book, you can see the drug use growing until it hits a point where he is arrested for assaulting his wife and crashing into 6 or 7 cars while driving home. This isn't fixed until near the end of the book, when Jordan goes into rehab.
All in all, I could probably find more themes for this book, but this is a very rushed post. I do recommend the book however.
I will consider reading this book, thanks to your explanation of the theme of it. It was kind of spoiled though, so you should add a spoiler alert.
ReplyDeleteGerus This is a great post. I have one question though. Did they make a movie about this book?
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