GREAT GATSBY REMIX 1
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1. Notice how many times Fitzgerald uses the words hope, or dream. Why does he do this?
2. Nick starts the novel by relaying his father's advice "Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had." List Nick's advantages. Does he reserve judgement in the novel?
3. Pay attention to time. What is the day and year during the first scene at Daisy's house?
4. Describe Nick. What facts do you know about him, and what do you infer about him? What kind of a narrator do you think he will be?
5. What image does the author use to describe Jordan Baker? What does it mean?
6. How does Nick react to Jordan?
7. What does Tom's behavior reveal about his character?

My questions: 

1. What is so great about Gatsby that Nick keeps mentioning about in chapter 1? who is this mysterious guy? And why is Nick son enamored to him?

2. why are west egg neighbors lack in social connection and whereas Nick doesn't?

3. Is Nick a reliable person?

The Great Gatsby Notes #3
"But his eyes, dimmed a little by many paint less days under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn clumping ground" 
  -this quote gives us the illustration to the book

  

Leaden: dull, heavy or slow

dismal: depressing, dreary

impenetrable: impossible to pass through or enter

The Great Gatsby Notes #2

Supercilious- arrogant

Imperceptibly- in a way that is so slight, gradual, or subtle as not to be perceived.

Desolate- of a place) deserted of people and in a state of bleak and dismal emptiness.

Rotogravure- a printing system using a rotary press with intaglio cylinders, typically running at high speed and used for long print runs of magazines and stamps.

-West egg
-Less fashionable
-Two levels of tone
 - Tom/ Nick 
"I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool- that's the best thing  a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."

The Great Gatsby
"Great" person:
- a favorable opinion of other people
   - love, caring

-one who does something extrodinary
  - going above and beyondthe limit
  - Personal ethic

- Happy, Sweet, Humble
  - special quality illuminates or inspire

- what people sense

- extrodinary

- perseptiin colored by being alive


THE GREAT GATSBY NOTES #1

- Epigraph: Brief quote suggested of it's theme in the beginning of the book

- The Narrator is a stuborn as his father
  - west egg, long island sound, Gatsby

- " I lived at West Egg, the- well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them."

Everything is a remix

MUSIC AS LITERATURE
Can we consider music to be literature? what is the difference between a novel, a poem, a rap, a song, an opera and a symphony?

Music is the vocal or instrumental sounds, or even both. That are combined in such a way that creates such beauty and expresses emotion. Whereas literature are written works. But between music and literature, they both tell a story. For instance "Bohemian Rhapsody" By Queen, tells a story about a young man who accidentally committed a crime and sold his soul to the devil. Music and literature both create sound and are put into writing. Between music and literature, they are both works of art. so yes, music is considered to be literature. The difference between a novel and rap, is that at novel is a narrative structure and story whereas a rap is a type of music that in which the words are told rapidly. 

FINAL ESSAY 

For the finals on Friday, I did not feel so good about the essay. Having little time I felt that I was being pressured. Maybe I just need to practice more in writing an essay under a short time. I don't know. But I didn't like how my essay turned out so I decided to rewrite it. 

Emerson once said “Trust Thyself.” He refers to the self-motivational mindset that tells one to hearken to their instincts, mind and heart. Emerson’s ‘’Self-Reliance” portrays the qualities of a poet, to do what you want to do. The poet, Rushdie, elucidates in his quote on what portrays a poet, one who is imperil, one who points at frauds, starts feuds and one who transforms the world and stops it from being stolid.

In Rushdies quote, the main theme of it, is to be imperial, to take risks, to do the unimpossible, possible. To challenge yourself in shaping this world from being stolid. The tone of this quote is confidence. To take a challenge, risks,  takes a lot of confidence.

In addition, taking a risk takes a lot of confidence. One can either agree or disagree towards your thoughts and opinions. Which can create a backlash. But as poets we have the right to speak for ourselves. We have the right to speak out on our minds. For instance, in “The Right to you Opinion’’ it discusses how no-one has the right to stop us from thinking and saying whatever we want. As poets we have different ideas and it takes confidence to share those ideas that may lead you at risk. As poets we want to share our ideas and grab their attention to the important things. For instance, in “A Modest Proposal,” by Jonathan Swift. Swift advises that eating children and selling them in markets as food is a solution to aiding the Irish in their economic problems. Clearly, he was trying to grab the audience attention, that there is a big problem in Ireland. That there is a prodigious amount of children starving in their country and that no one is aware of this crisis.......