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. 

      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.

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 2^nd 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.

      

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           There are many ways on how the book "Faithful" By: Janet Fox uses good figurative writing. Also another way the author uses good technique is just using elevated writing. But also there are areas in the book where she could elevate her words. A quote that shows her great word choice and description says "Lightning flickered on the far horizon, echoing the tiny lights strung from branch to branch in the gardens outside. In small parlor where the women gathered to primp, I found kitty, and we admired one another's dress. She was done up in blue silk that spilled in ten yards of rustling train. Her hair glittered with diamonds that matched her necklace" (Fox, 27-28). This quote not only has descriptive language but also it shows great setting and the reader can imagine it and expierience it with the main character Maggie. Some of the descriptive words that help the reader picture it is flickered, echoing, tiny, strung, and primp. If the author did not have these words in her book, her writing would be boring and nobody would want to read it. So if you want to keep the readers attention it's a good idea to have great vocabulary, figurative language, and more!

Book Review over Fahrenheit 451

             Our world is trying to create everyone to be equal, but everyone will never b equal and that's okay. It was a novel of fireman who are paid to set books ablaze. The main character in the story is a firefighter named Montag. His job was  to find anyone who had a book and burn them along with there house. Everyone knew that books were forbidden. Montag was a fireman for 10 years and loved his job, he didn't question what life was before they burned books. But a young girl came around named Clarisse McCellan who was 17 years old. She wasn't like many people. She questioned the world, when many people wouldn't even care. She was a very observant person. She would go on long walks and she would go on the subway and watch how everyone spoke, she would watch the sun rise and fall during the day, she would watch birds fly and flowers bloom.
When Clarisse and Montag talk in the beginning of the book Clarisse asks many questions that Montag have never even thought about. "She laughed at this. "Good night!" She started up her walk. Then she seemed to remember something and came back to look at him with wonder and curiosity. "Are you happy?" She said (Bradbury,10). This quote explains how CLarisse was curious and had deep thoughts for everything. When Montag goes home he starts to think am I happy? And then when he learns why he isn't happy it changes his whole view and perspective on things one being, are books really bad? Or what if they are making the wrong decision.

            Overall, I truly loved this book. I loved how the author wrote, he added great detail and figurative language to his story. This book really made me think, what if books were banned. It would be terrible.
You couldn't read a fairy tale, mystery, adventure, or even cook books.

I recommend this book to everyone if you want to have a interesting great read!

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5 stars

New book!!

                                                   Faithful By: Janet Fox

    I just started a new book called Faithful! It's a novel by Janet Fox. I'm only in the beginning but so far I really like the begginning, it is in the older days starting in 1903. The main character is named Maggie who is 16 years old. Her mother has disappeared and everyone thinks that she is dead.
Her dad and maggie go on an adventure to try to find her mom. She has to leave her elegant Newport home. Then they make there way to Yellowstone Montana to try to find her missing mom.

  I like how the author has a small description in front of each chapter. I'm really excited to get to read this book and to go on the journey with Maggie trying to find her mother!

   Faithful, forgiven, and sirens are all a series together that Janet wrote!

A Long Way Gone; Book reccomendations

Why readers should read The Long Way Gone

• It has an amazing life story

• It has great descriptive writing

• The author shows what he is going through really well

• It shows person vs person and person vs nature

    Rate: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

      I recommend this book to ages 13 and up because there are some graphic wording and description in this book. I really loved this book because the author did a really nice job describing what he saw, touched, felt, smelt and more. Ishmael has an amazing story to tell and it really changed my perspective on things. The author goes through some major conflicts in his life and one of them being war is taking place at his town and losing connection with his family. I suggest this book to people who are interested in learning about different culture and want to listen to someones amazing true story. Jump out of your bubble and read this amazing book! It may change your life and your perspective on things.