Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 10th, 2009 1 Comment »
This I Believe
I am not the typical high school student. I get incredible happiness from performing on a stage instead of from participating in a sport. I get greater pleasure from reading a book than going to a party. Rather than thinking about what to do on a Friday night, I think deeply about [...]
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1. “After a little while Mr. Gatz opened the door and came out, his mouth ajar, his face flushed slightly, his eyes leaking isolated and unpunctual tears. He had reached an age where death no longer has the quality of ghastly surprise, and when he looked around him now for the first time and saw the [...]
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1. “There was a ripe mystery about it, a hint of bedrooms upstairs more beautiful and cool than other bedrooms, of gay and radiant activities taking place through its corridors and of romances that were not musty and laid away already in lavender but fresh and breathing and redolent of this year’s shining motor cars [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 1st, 2009 No Comments »
1. “The room, shadowed well with awnings, was dark and cool. Daisy and Jordan lay upon an enormous couch, like silver idols, weighing down their own white dresses against the singing breeze of the fans.” (pg. 121) This is a description of a part of Tom and Daisy’s house. The choice of words Fitzgerald uses [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 1st, 2009 No Comments »
1. In chapter 6 the reader finally learns how Gatsby became the success that he is. On page 107 it says, “And it was from Cody that he inherited the money-a legacy of twenty-five thousand dollars. He didn’t get it. He never understood the legal device that was used against him but what remained of [...]
