Journal Entry #9

Chapter 9
Gatzby dies and no one cares, except for Nick who being the only one who was close to Gatzby became in charge of his funeral. Why this happened who knows, perhaps it was because of the certain crowd that Gatzby hung out with and no one really cared about his death or maybe it was more. When his funeral came no one went only Nick Gatzby's father and the man with the lunar spectacles why only he came I dont know perhaps he was symbolic in a way what way I don't know.

Journal #8

How does Nick’s statement “You’re worth the whole bunch put together” show a change in Nick from the beginning of the novel?
Because in the beginning he despises what he stands for but now he learns to value him more of a friend. In a way he loves him but he also hates him showing that he is no longer one sided and is more controversial in his perspective of Gatsby.

Journal #7

In chapter 7 we learn more about intimacy between Gatsby and Daisy and how they are in love, and how this creates a spasm of drama inside the group of Nicks. For instance Gatsby and Daisy we're not very secretive about there whole love affair and Tom being as stupid as he was miraculously found out. Which then led to this whole argument between the group where Tom pointed out all the flaws of Gatsby and made him look like a bad man in Daisy eyes. Daisy was troubled and wanted to go which led to the killing of Mrs. Wilson.

Journal Entry #6

1. How truthful was Gatsby when he first relayed the story of his life to Nick? Why do we get the whole story now?

Perhaps to many readers finding out that a favorite character lied is the most devastating thing, Gatsby's life story was completely and utterly different than what he had relayed. What was even worse was that a reporter was the one who uncovered Gatsby's true life was a reporter. Why we get the whole story now? I honestly have no clue perhaps it was to lead to a suspension or a climax or maybe to put in mixed emotions into Nick. The true reason I have yet to find out maybe its for future passages.

Journal Entry #4&5

Why does Gatsby tell Nick about his life? Do you believe Gatsby? Does Nick believe Gatsby?

Cuase he doesnt want Nick to think badly of him he also wants to make he think that he is a good so Nick can introduce Gatsby to Daisy. At first Nick disbelieves gatsby because of the look on his face when he said he went to Oxford. But he starts to believe as he takes out souvenirs from his story. Such as Montenegro's medal, rubies and a picture of his time in Oxford. I honestly believe him after all of his stash of pocket souvenirs but I wonder if he planned it to meet Daisy?

Why does Gatsby deliver so many goods and services to Nick’s house?

He delivers these goods because Daisy is coming over and apparently they were lovers before the war so he wants to make a good impression and have Daisy fall in love with him again. I believed that he had planned this all from the beginning and intended to convince Nick so he could meet Daisy and make an impression. Though to my honest opinion he made a very bad first impression because he was very nervous but later on things went smoothly.

Journal Entry #3

The Great Gatsby

Is Nick an honest narrator?

What is Honesty? Honesty is being true in words and in oneself. Though is that what Nick is? At the end of chapter three he says he is one of the fewest honest people he knows. Which implores the question if he is honest, in my understanding he is honest in his words but not to himself. He says that he does not love Jordan Baker but that is an obvious lie for there are many hints that he in a way likes her more than a friend. There are many passages in chapter three that states that he is slightly jealous of other man, in other chapters he is clearly not honest with his opinion between the affair Tom is clearly having and also his opinion on his cousin Daisy. I must say that he is honest but not in his opinions and thoughts.

Journal Entry # 2

The Great Gatsby

What Does Nick learn about Tom?
In chapter two of this book Nick learns about the women that Tom is having an affair with her name is Mrs. Wilson and Tom takes her away from her husband so they can get away. Nick learns that he is playing both Mrs. Wilson and Daisy because he says that Daisy is Catholic who don't believe in divorces. Which Nick says is a lie because Daisy has never been Catholic, he also learns that Tom is abusive because he backhands Mrs. Wilson when she kept repeating Daisy's name over and over again when he didn't want to speak of her in front of him.

The Great Gatsby Journal #1

The Great Gatsby

Character Analysis

Tom-Daisy's Husband
The first description given about Tom was what Nick remembered of him, being a football player in New Haven and being from a family of enormous wealth. Though as the visit goes on they show that Tom is a racist man that believes that Nordics are superior above all and that he was an obnoxious pathetic man who did not know what he was speaking of and most of all that he was having an affair with a women from New York

Daisy-Toms Wife
Daisy is Nick's second cousin once removed and also Tom's wife that has a child that is a girl. Daisy seems to be a women that tries to act like everything is all right even though everything isn't. She even knows about the affair but does nothing about it.

Jordan
Is an attractive women, who at first Nick is intimidated by but later on has a thing for her. She is an athlete and a gossip queen who told Nick all the goings on such as the affair.

Nick- is the narrator of the book
in chapter one Nick seems to be a normal man with a family history that most immagrants would commonly have. As he visited his second cousin once removed, Daisy, he seemed as if he was not easily impressed with money but at least marveled at the sight of Daisy's and Tom's mansion. During his visit there he started feeling slightly uneasy because of the slight gossip of Tom having an affair with a women from New York, which was brought up when the phone rang causing an awkward atmosphere around Daisy, Tom and Jordan.

Gatsby-Nicks neighbor
Gatsby was not introduced very much in this chapter just that he was Nick's neighbor and that he also like to take walks at night. Who was also a great man in the eyes of Nick.

The Jungle ?s

1. What is normal for family members to leave because they are unsatisfied with their new life?
2. Was being a decent married girl really that bad in the working world?
3. Has it always been a practice to con others so as to get rich?
   

Discussion Questions

Will the choice of buying the deed effect them in the future?
What exactly lead to sanitation laws in processing factories, and are any practices that are discussed in the book still in practice?
Will Jurgis join the union later on?

The Jungle Discussion Questions

1. Will the main characters point of view on life change later on in the story? How?
   
2. Will his spirit be crushed like so many others in the industrial revolution? Why?
   
3. What do you predict will happen later on? Will he become rich or poor?
   

Bread and Roses

BREAD

Day breaks the first thing I smell is my house, I've always woken up like this. I raise from bed and look at my wife at the end of the bed hangs a black cloth reminding me of why I have always woken up smelling my bed. Why I have always kissed my wife goodbye and hugged my children, I don't necessarily work in a dangerous place on the contrary it's is a quiet place, sad, treacherous place I decided to call the edge of the world. I walk, walk towards the white pillars of smoke slowly my mind goes blank, no longer does it think of the pain the hardships. As my body stepped in front of the factory I was in the state of no mind, my body moved, on its own walked towards the door and entered the dark abyss. As of now I paid no head to the brick walls the stillness of everything, all men where already at their stations. My mind wavered for a second I noticed everyone's eyes in the room, empty, lost, sad they were eyes that lost hope. Again I felt my mind fade back and I wondered for a split second before the whistle rang to signal work, I thought do I have the same eyes as them?
As the day went by everything in my mind was blank I only focused on what I needed to focus on, I only needed to focus on the object I needed to create, the only thing I've had to create for the past year. I thought nothing of it that is, until the lunch whistle at this point my body and mind have been set to the whistle it was a signal for me to work. As I silently ate my small piece of bread I thought back, back to the days where I hopped to become chief of this factory now that thought was the furthest thing from my mind. I only thought of how to survive and how to work myself like a slave to do just that, survive. At the end of the day I walk home as I reached the house the familiar scent of cabbage and water filled the air. My wife decided to make cabbage soup for the hundredth time, I really can't remember when was the last time I had meat. I looked across the table and noticed the sad faces then I remembered why I work, I work to make these children happy, and in these hard times I can be replaced at any moment. It is at these times that I remember I have to work to keep my family alive.

ROSES

What is it that I don't have? I am filthy rich there isn't anything I can't buy, heck I give my guest cigarettes wrapped in hundred dollar bills. I make $600 dollars an hour while my workers get tidally squat, am I evil? Isn't America the land of opportunity? because if I'm evil then maybe you aren't American. All I'm doing is creating "my" opportunity to create my empire and to have everything I desire. I have in now way done anything which would be considered unlawful in this land the strong survive while the weak perish that is how the world works, that is how I work. Right now as I am writing this, as I am writing my daily life which will soon one day become famous because I am an extravagant man I can not help but feel pity for the peasants that work for me but as I continue to write that pity quickly disappeared. Why should I care for the poor all they are to me is my money and that is all that matters in this world, MONEY! And truly that is all that matters now I will sigh off on this journal entry and go wreck some lives so I can make a few extra bucks.

PSAT/College day

There are a million things one can say about what one thinks, especially about a practice test that can prepares them for their futures. I can say that the PSAT was boring, I can say that but that wouldn't really be my honest opinion...well as me it wouldn't be, but my teenage side says otherwise. For me the test was slightly difficult when it came to the grammar and reading parts only for the reason because I fail when it comes to those types of things, and just straining my mind over those types of problems I kept running at of time which caused even more stress. Though still I felt that all of this was necessary, for what? Well for the future, because we are the future all of us are the future, no matter how much some adults deny it we are the future and at a certain point in an adults life they have to stop paving a road and have others due it. We are are a force to be reckoned with and to be honest I feel as if 2011 will be the beginning of a new era.

Though this is not the end of my talk of the future because I have yet to speak of the small glimpse of the future I saw. Now usually I would deny ever going to a college mostly because I really don't care which one takes me in as long as it's cheap and I get accepted. Of course the college I went to though made a small impact in my mind, I truly felt that maybe I wanted to go to this school. The name of the school was USD, at first I was skeptical because the school was a catholic school with a church and everything but as the tour went on I learned more and more about their programs, tech, majors, minors and a small thought crossed my mind "HECK YEAH!!!" So one could say that maybe USD might be my first choice in a long list soon to come.

Anyway I talked a lot already so Ciao!