Tales of the jazz age

This webquest is for students to truly examine the dynamics behind modern literature written in the graphic novel format.

plot: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button summary: A baby born in 1860 begins life as an old man and proceeds to age backward. F. Scott Fizgerald hinted at this kind of inversion when he called his era a generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken.

grotesque picture formed itself with dreadful clarity before the eyes of the tortured man - a picture of himself walking through the crowded streets of the city with this appalling apparition stalking by his side. "I can't. I can't," he moaned. People would stop to speak to him and what was he going to say?"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" p163