"The Great Gatsby"

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-Epigraph: a brief quote at the beginning of a book that expresses the theme

*Nick: the narrator, he's humble, lives in Long Island, & snobbish

*Gatsby: a wealthy man that lives in a mansion

*Daisy: second cousin of Nick (she's no fool)

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-West Egg is looked down upon since it's a less nice part of the city

*Tom: Daisy's husband; he's cheating on her with a woman from New York

-Daisy wanted her baby to be a boy. Why?

-rotogravure: a kind of old news paper

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-Character relationships:

Nick-----Gatsby(neighbor)

                                                     /

                             Daisy(second cousin)------Tom(Daisy's husband)

                                                           \             /

                                        Jordan Baker(friend of Daisy & Tom)

-Daisy wants to hook Jordan up with Nick

-Nick gets to meet Tom Buchanan's mistress! :o

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-Superalious: arrogant (Tom)

*Mrs. Wilson: a thick strong woman who is Tom's mistress (she cheats on Wilson)

*Mr. Wilson: Tom's mistress' husband, who owns a garage & is unsuperior to Tom

-proprietary: ownership

MUSIC IS LITERATURE

I beleive that we can consider music as literature because in every song, there is a story being told, the same way as in a book. I don't think there's really a big different between music & literature, just that music has rhythm

HELLO 2017

January of 2016 is a long time ago that I honestly don't even remember how I was as a person or acted. Although, I would like to think that I've matured every year in my life. I'd also like to think that ive became a better person in some way. I don't know if starting to think about my future, university, and career is considered as growing as a person, but I feel like it is. 

AN EARTH-SHATERING FART

My response to "A Sound of Thunder" is how fascinating one little thing as a butterfly can change an entire future. You never know if you make a decision instead of another, your life can possibly change. I was a little confused at the end of it because I think that they killed Eckels but I'm not sure. This story was very fascinating to me because its grabbed my attention and it kept me hooked the whole time.

WOW, THAT WAS QUICK

This semester has passed by so fast, I remember when we all decided that blogs would be a good idea. The last thing on my mind was having to worry and stress about finals. Time passes by like a flash, because today we had to take our final for this class and it's pretty much having to remember and use everything you have learned in this passed semester.

Something Interesting

Something I found interesting is how pretty much all my teachers are making me take a final the week before. For example, I took my final tests for this class, Spanish, math, and chemistry. Plus in some classes I still have to take test on finals week. That is interesting to me.



Immigrants in our own land Reflection

 

The way that I understood this poem was that it talks about immigrants coming into this new land to have a better life for themselves and their families, but end up disappointed by how they're treated when arriving. Their administration makes the different races segregated because they say that the cultures should not be mixed. To think of it "like in the old neighborhoods we came from." The poem ended with saying that this world is not what everybody imagines it to be. Pretty much saying that it'll ruin immigrants' lives. The tone that I got from it was resentful, as if the author resented leaving his home to come to the country to just be disappointed. Disappointment was another tone that I picked up because he imagined this extraordinary country for a better life, but was faced with bad conditions. A literary device that Baca uses is metaphor, for instance when he says "My cell" when he really means his living space but uses the word "cell" to make us envision how bad it was. The mood is also disappointment because with all the things that he says and describes, led me to think that he was expecting a country full of opportunities for a better life, but when he actually got there, he saw how it truly was and saw that it was not at all what he expected.