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Dialectical Journal For The Great Gatsby

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Have you ever experienced a time when something around you is occurring and it just feels like a dream. Then, suddenly you are woken up and forced to comprehend that it is reality. In this story I found a piece that described exactly that. A reflection of when he was a little boy. “In the middle of the crowd stood Henry, shopping bags hanging at his side. He felt as if he were waking up from a long forgotten dream. A dream he’d once had as a little boy (Page 1, paragraph 1).” This reminded me of a time in my life when it felt like everything was a dream. It felt like I could wake up at any second and everything would all just go away, all the worrying and pain that I felt would be gone. But instead, I never woke up. It wasn’t a dream, reality had awoken me and thoughtlessly reminded me that it was in no way a dream. …show more content…

I try not to live in the past, he thought, but who knows, sometimes the past lives in me. (Page 9, paragraph 4). I believe that many people live in the past. Remembering things that they should have done, or things that they now wish they would have done differently. I catch myself doing that a lot these days. Some things are petty little things that really make no difference, but other things are much larger. These larger things are the ones that can take over your mind and cause it to worry and wander all day long; thinking back to a certain time when you should have held your tongue, or spoke up. It’s not always good to live in the past, sometimes I feel like by doing that you are not living life to its full potential. Therefore, you are missing out on great things because your mind is still stuck in the past not allowing you to move on with

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