One event that is surprising to me personally in the book was when arthur gave nate his 1st place prize which was a skateboard that nate really wanted. Why this is surprising to me is because nate hated him because he entered in his troop and stole his 1st place spot and took his spot in his troop with his friends teddy and francis which they let him in the troop and nate did not agree to the decision of letting him in [Arthur] On pg.43 and on pg.85 it states,teddy says this is nate's best friend¨He really wants to win that skateboard¨. Then nate says ¨no that's my skateboard not his¨.On page 85 it also states , Nate sad this¨Arthur made me some brownies that's so obnoxious and on page 73 nate says¨how much I hate arthur he's so irritating
Chapter 1 Lorde- Team We live in cities you'll never see on screen Not very pretty, but we sure know how to run things Living in ruins of a palace within my dreams And you know, we're on each other's team
Thematic Thinker – Day 3 Theme A theme present in these two chapters is “Living far away from a loved one can distance your relationship.” Ming and Fitzgerald were very close and met each other often but ever since Ming moved their relationship isn’t what it used to be. They are no longer able to meet each other and they are only able to talk on the phone which isn’t enough to keep their relationship going. Three Passages “Both she and Fitzgerald were there on Mondays and Tuesdays, but on Wednesdays neither of them went to the hospital.
1. The Valley of Ashes is the farm land or almost like a wasteland filled with ashes that separates the wealth of the East and West Egg Village. 2. “The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic — their irises are one yard high. They look out of no face, but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose” (Fitzgerald 23).
ake their operation down or a rival who wants to take their business away from them.” John Montgomery, Addie’s grandfather, white-knuckled his hands at ten and two on the thin black wheel. His car hit almost every hole on the rarely traveled road and jostled them like children on a cheap carnival roller coaster. John unnecessarily smoothed one side of his perfectly white hair. “They’re always thinking about how to kill you.
1. The point I find to be the most crucial to the plot in Chapter 1 is the Buchanan’s blatant unhappiness. Tom is obviously unhappy in his married life because, not only is he restless in the sense that he moves frequently, but he also is having an open affair. Daisy is also obviously unhappy because of the way she so readily opened up to Nick, whom she did not know well despite their familial relation, and in the way she interacted with Tom. Even if I had not read this story before, I would have picked up on the fact that this singular point would be a catalyst to the rest of the plot.
In this passage, Jordan has finished telling Gatsby and Daisy’s story to Nick. Nick narrates, “When Jordan Baker had finished telling all this we had left the Plaza for half an hour and were driving in a victoria through Central Park. The sun had gone down behind the tall apartments of the movie stars in the West Fifties, and the clear voices of girls, already gathered like crickets on the grass, rose through the hot twilight: ‘I’m the Sheik of Araby. Your love belongs to me.
1. I think Nick means that everyone in The Great Gatsby somehow falls into falls into one of those categories. He says that they are either pursued, pursuing, busy, or tired. In the pursued class Gatsby and Jordan are involved because they are both being chased by something from their past. Gatsby is very secretive and no one is sure about what has happened in his past, it is easy to think that he is running from something or someone.
1. The first chapter in any book is the basis for the entire story. It must lay the foundation of how its literary world will function, providing depth and order. The Great Gatsby is no different as the first chapter introduces the characters and setting for the story. A crucial point is when Tom and Daisy ask Nick about a rumored engagement.
The next morning I had woken up with no memory of ever having fallen asleep. To my surprise, the other bed was no longer empty. "Annabelle?" I crept closer, "Are you awake?" The bed sheets remained still.
F. Scott Fitzgerald gave every reader a new idea on the 1920s in his book The Great Gatsby. Each symbolic word that he put in to the book give depth to his underline meaning while grabbing the reader's attention. A remaining question that I, as a reader, still havr is what is Fitzgerald’s reasoning on why he wrote this novel in a morbid view of the 20’s. Like many authors, Fitzgerald had used some deal of foreshadowing in his novel. From the symbolic clock in chapter five, to the colors Fitzgerald uses to express emotion.
1. “I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father said snobbishly, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.’ Ch.1 Analysis: nick is tying to say that Money isn’t always what people are born into; especially in this time people who are born into money are considered the upper class and above all. Some people are just a better person in general even without being born into a rich family he doesn’t know if a person has to be born into wealth to have natural class or just be classy on their own.
Chapter X I’ve never been ashamed of who I am until the summer of 1932. My experiences that summer turned me into a delicate china doll which Fate smashed into a tiny little fragments. I was drowning in darkness and no one could throw out a life preserver to save me. The one thing that gave me comfort was the Gatsby’s green light blinking in a world of misery and ash.
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.
What's in a name? is a common phrase, the title of this work makes you kind of curious right off the bat, "The Great Gatsby". It gives a lot to the imagination, before you start reading, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote his books during the roaring twenties, a time of oppulence, great opportunities, and abundance. A society that is exaggerating freedom as a way to cope, and rebound from the devastation endured during the First World War. Seemingly he writes his own American dream story disguised as Jay Gatzby. At least two witnesses in the story could testify that his humble beginnings could have thwarted Jay Gatzby's dream, however, with their support and his hard work, and determination he advanced in his desires, Dan Cody related: "First time I saw him was when he came into Winebrenner's pool room 43rd Street and asked for a job he hadn't eat for a couple of days, come on have some lunch with me
