Scribe: 5.27.2009
Period 5
Hey Period Five!
Today in class each of our groups were assigned a different question regarding The Great Gatsby.
Questions:
1. How do time and family incur in Chapter one?
2. Find three examples of Nick’s elevated diction and imagery.
3. Find at least two examples of how dialogue characterizes each character: Nick, Daisy, Tom.
4. Why/How are the valley of the ashes and Myrtle’s apt. juxtaposed?
5. Characterize Myrtle through her actions and dialogue.
6. How does the tapestry function?
7. What is Nick’s tone in Chapter two?
Mr. Eldridge suggested that when reading a novel the first sentence in the novel is often times the most important. The narrator in the novel is Nick and the author is F. Scott Fitzgerald. Mr. Eldridge then asked the class when does Nick show up to Daisy’s house?
The answer to this was June 21st=longest day of the year/summer solstice.
We then went over the answer to question one. Callie answered the question. Callie’s answer included that New Haven –Yale years, Midas, Civil War reference, Autumn=rebirth, interring adolescent and time to New York, summer=passion. We also went over that at the end of summer plants begin to die and in autumn fruit falls off and fruit is ripe.
Important facts:
1. Tone in paragraph four=discontent, unaffected, disdain and scornful
2. Nick is disillusioned and let down.
3. Nick is romantic.
4. Sometimes in movies and books the beginning/first chapter gives away most of what the book/movie is going to be about.
After going question three we skipped over to question three.
1. Nick: Knows Tom from New Haven.
2. Nick seems to be reserved and observant.
3. Nick jokes about Daisy in Chicago. Pg 19 2nd paragraph.
1. Tom is having an affair with Myrtle.
2. pg 22 Daisy is sarcastic about being sophisticated.
3. Daisy is only concerned about what people think of her back home.
1. Tom lies and says that Daisy is Catholic.
2. Tom believes that racist book is scientific.
~Keren Mahgerefteh
Period 4
* Truth vs. Beauty
o There was a line from some piece of literature (I forgot what it was) that contained the quote, “Beauty is Truth, truth beauty, and that is all you need to know.”
* Romanticism = emphasis on emotion over logic
* New England in 1920
o business-centric
o alcohol illegal
o no real police (mostly run by gangs)
o lots of poor people
o trying to fix, or progress past, the gilded age
o poor living conditions (unsanitary cities and tiny apartment houses)
* Most of the story takes place in Manhattan
* Nouveau(x) Riche show their wealth and are looked down upon by the “old money,” the families who have plentiful inherited wealth
* Nowadays, we have an open society, but back then wealth was mostly dependent on family ties
* Nick is a character in the story as well as the narrator, so we as readers must take into consideration that what we read is filtered through Nick’s perspective
Also, we went through some pictures on Mr. Eldridge’s website(s). Mr. E. said that since some of us didn’t read the assigned chapter, we may be having to take some surprise reading quizzes, to which the class responded with some dissatisfied moans. Anyway, chapters 1 and 2 are due tomorrow, so get20reading!
Love, Keith
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