Sunday, March 20, 2016

Jay Gatsby


         As the characters and the story are developing this week in The Great Gatsby, I am learning the main character Jay Gatsby throws very large parties in his mansion. He doesn’t even invite anyone but everyone just knows his routine and shows up. Many people have been going to his parties for years and have never seen Gatsby. But, Nick Caraway, who is Gatsby’s neighbor, got a special invitation just from Gatsby. This is unusual for him because no one ever gets to meet him or gets invited to I wonder what this means. F. Scott Fitzgerald describes it as, “I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby’s house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited-they went there” (41). If Gatsby doesn’t usually invite people to his party then Nick must be really important to get a personal invite. So far while reader he is looking for Gatsby and no one never sees him but suddenly he comes out of nowhere and talks to Nick. I’m going to keep reading and see why he got a personal invite. 

Sunday, March 13, 2016

      This week while reading "The Great Gatsby" I really like it so far. Im still in the beginningbut so far I  have been seeing the main characters develop. One of the main characters are Tom Buchanan, who is married to Daisy. Tom is one of the most richest men in the town. Tom has turned out to be a dishonest, rude, uncaring, and arrogent. He is not loyal to his wife, a quote that supports his untrustworthy self says, "There is always a halt there of at least minute, and it was because of  this that I first met Tom Buchanan's mistress" (Fitzgerald, 24). This is already showing Tom's personality. He can't be trusted and is cheating on Daisy. Already while they are all having dinner together you can tell how Tom and Disy's relationship is not good. Daisy knows what is found on but yet she stays with him.

Sunday, March 6, 2016

The Great Gatsby

            This week I stopped reading Faithful. It started out to be a great book but the author stretched it out with many chapters and I knew I did not have that much time to finish it. The beginning was great but I started to get bored after a couple chapters. It was a little bit too stretched for me. But great news I found another great book from my sister. Her and her class is reading The Great Gatsby By: F. Scott Fitzgerald.  She likes it and she got me hooked on it by telling me to watch the movie with her. So I did and I loved it so much that I wanted to read the book and compare. Will the book or movie be better?
       The book starts out with the character Nick Carraway who is the stories narrator. He is the one that lives in the small house next to Gatsby’s mansion. He is also Daisy Buchanan 2nd cousin. Jay Gatsby, who is a very wealthy man that lives in a large mansion right next to Nick. Daisy is one of the main characters; she is married to one of the richest man in town, Tom Buchanan. The narrator starts out by describing in great detail of the first main setting, in the Buchanan’s home. It gives such wonderful rich description of there home. It says, “Their house was even more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red-and-white Georgian Colonial mansion, overlooking the bay. The lawn started at the Beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sun-dials and brick walks and burning gardens…” (Fitzgerald, 6). The way the author added a very specific description before everything he was about to describe was amazing. He didn’t just say mansion he added Georgian Colonial mansion. Just a few words can change how the author is describing it. So I thought the author started the book very well with great description. I can’t wait to keep reading.