Thursday, February 21, 2019

The Great Gatsby my opinion

I don't think Gatsby is that great of a guy in some ways but he is in other. In his youth he ran away from home however when he was older he help his father by buying him a house to live. He loves Daisy but he has to break up a marriage to get her. Gatsby in my opinion is kind in the middle but I say that he is more of on the not so good guy side.

Nick says he's honest. He is honest. To himself. Everyone sees things differently. 20 people could see the same thing that happened like say something was streaming Fortnite. There are a million different ways people would talk or think about it. It sucks, it's amazing, its lame, etc. Nick interprated this story this way. What about how Daisy or Jrodan saw it? What about Gatsby and Tom? Different perspectives can cause different stories.

To me Daisy and Tom worked more like a team than they seem. Daisy is easily swayed by money and nice things. Tom is a duche who was born into money and only wants money. I believe that they loved each other every second of the story but they acted like they didn't so they could get Gatsby's money. (If wanted to be better explained comment and I will explain this more)

I don't like Daisy at all I think her choices were pretty dumb and selfish. She really only wants what's best for her not anyone else. Let's take her daughter for example. Daisy doesn't give a flying diaper about her own daughter. It's like she's just a trophy or something let Daisy show off as something that she cares about. However, Daisy doesn't care and this shown because she only ever seen her 3 times according to this story. The first has to be st her birth. Second in the beginning. And lastly when Gatsby was around. The daughter's name isn't even mentioned. If Daisy was real then I wouldn't let me child go near her.

The last sentence in the book is interesting. It said "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past" (Fitzgerald IX 189). This last sentence to me is saying that even though we're living now. Even though were going against obstacles now we are still affected by what we did or what other have done to us in the past.

Thursday, February 7, 2019

Gatsby quiz question chapter 1-4

Chapter 1:
1. What advice did Nick's dad give him?

2. Where did Nick live?

Chapter 2:
1. What kind of dog did Mrs. Wilson want?

2. What happened to between Tom and Mrs. Wilson?

Chapter 3:
1. What was the old man at the bar going on about?

2. What name did Jordan tell Nick to look her up by in the phonebook?

Chapter 4:
1. Who did Clarence Endive get in a fight with in the garden?

2. What month was Daisy's daughter born?

Gatsby Pg 39-60

Alright so Nick attended Gatsby's party in which he finds Jordan baker while looking for the host,Gatsby. They chat for awhile then they both go looking around for Gatsby. They headed to a bar where they found a drunk guy talking about how real the books were. Nick unknowingly into Gatvy in which he finds out that he too was in the military. Gatsby then is called to take a call from Chicago and leaves Nick and Jordan. A little time passes and the orchestra announces they are going to play a special song then one of Gatsby's butler tells Jordan that he wants to talk to her on which she leaves Nick by himself. Later on there's a car crash and then Nick went home.

Thursday, January 31, 2019

Gatsby pages 14-22

I just finished chapter one of "The Great Gatsby". Basically what i found out is that Tom wasn't present for his daughter's birth. He was no where to be found and that Daisy didn't really care about the child and said that the best thing she could be is a buetiful fool. I also learned that Tom might be talking to another woman who lives in New York. There are apparently rumors about Nick being engaged to a woman in his town. When Nick got back to his home to saw who he believes is Gatsby who in a short few minutes or so just vanishes.

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Rich People and backward Thinking

Alright so I'm reading a book named "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It occurs to me that some of the characters are sexist and/or racist. Tom is a good 3xapmle. He often cuts his wife's sentences in half, is rude to her, and he physically and possibly emotionally hurts her. Daisy (Tom's wife) shows Nick (the main character) her bruised hand in which she says that Tom did it. Tom also shows that is a racist by saying "The idea is if we don't look out the white race will be- will be utterly submerged" in which he is talking about a book called "The rise of the Coloured Empires". Later he says "It's up to us who are the dominant race to watch out or these other races will have a control of things.". Tom is saying that The white race is the ultimate race and that they need to be careful or else the other races will take over. He demonstrates the definition of racism which is the belief that one race is superior than others.

Friday, January 25, 2019

Hopepunk

I recently heard about Hopepunk which is a new literary genre that was made about a month ago. By what I can find it's basically about fighting back no matter what. It's placed in an era of President Donald Trump and a post acolyptic world. The person who found it lives in masacchutes. It's sounds pretty interesting I suggest checking it out.

Thursday, January 24, 2019

Differences of three genres

There are three different genres that I recently heard about. They are naturalism, realism and modernism.First of all what is a genre? A genre is basically a bunch of catorgeriz3d groups of things. Let's take music. There is hip-hop, rock, metal, old school and whole lot more. They are all their own genres because all the songs in each category are similar in some way. Now the 3 genres i want to talk about. Naturalism is fictional, the characterns are often lower class citizens, inspire people by spiritual reasons (ethos), and are driven by unnatural powers. Realism is where the characters are held accountable by their decisions, self-detrrmined, live in an interior world, and are often phycologically complex. Modernilism is fictional, often a poetry or short story, showed the destruction, blood and basically everything bad that happened after world war one.